Senior PMO Manager - £510p/d Inside IR35 - Heathrow

Senior PMO Manager
Contract: Up to £510 per day, inside IR35
Location: Heathrow
Working pattern: Hybrid, with two days per week onsite

A large organisation is looking for an experienced Senior PMO Manager or Portfolio PMO Lead to support a confidential Digital and Technology transformation programme.

This is a hands-on role working closely with senior leadership, Finance, HR and delivery teams. You will provide clear governance, planning and reporting across a complex portfolio of change, helping leaders understand progress, priorities, risks, dependencies and resource requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain integrated portfolio and programme roadmaps, milestones and critical paths.
• Manage portfolio governance, RAID, dependencies, actions and decision tracking.
• Produce clear reporting and governance papers for CIO and senior leadership forums.
• Support resource and capacity planning across multiple workstreams.
• Track programme finances, benefits, delivery performance and agreed outcomes.
• Coordinate inputs across Digital, Technology, Finance, HR and operational teams.
• Support business cases, change control and delivery assurance.
• Lead or coordinate a small PMO team and improve reporting standards and ways of working.
• Provide practical support across organisational change and restructuring activity.

• Strong experience as a Senior PMO Manager, PMO Lead or Portfolio PMO Manager.
• Experience supporting large Digital, Technology or business transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of portfolio governance, planning, reporting, RAID and dependency management.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and producing executive-level reporting.
• Good understanding of financial tracking, resource planning and benefits management.
• Comfortable working across Agile, Waterfall and hybrid delivery environments.
• Exposure to SAFe or Lean Portfolio Management would be useful, although formal certification is not essential.
• Experience within a large, complex or matrixed organisation.
• Experience supporting organisational restructuring, employee consultation or change within a unionised environment would be beneficial.