PMO Manager (Change Portfolio Delivery)

Royal London; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual life and pensions company is seeking a PMO Manager (Change Portfolio) to join their team in Edinburgh or Alderley Park. The role involves overseeing change delivery, managing performance, and ensuring effective reporting. The ideal candidate will have experience in change portfolio delivery, P3M principles, and risk management within a financial services environment. This position offers hybrid working and competitive benefits including a matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Previous experience of change portfolio delivery within a PMO function is essential.
• Strong understanding of P3M principles and techniques.
• Experience in managing project lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• Provide delivery support and oversight to change practitioners.
• Analyze programme data to identify trends and discrepancies.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders for reporting requirements.

Skills

Change portfolio delivery

P3M principles

Agile change frameworks

Financial budgeting

Risk management

Job description

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract - 12 months

Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Park (Wilmslow)

Working Style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

We have a fantastic opportunity for a PMO Manager (Change Portfolio) to join our PMO function at Royal London. The PMO Function has a unique value proposition which helps to translate business strategy into execution, through successful delivery of a portfolio of change. The PMO Manager will provide delivery support, oversight, and challenge to the change practitioners in the execution of change, ensuring that change is governed effectively and that reporting, and insights are timely, accurate and effective to drive decision making across the portfolio.

More about the role

• Acts as a champion of the best practice, standards, processes, templates, and tools and supports on-going communication and training to the wider change delivery community.
• Performs first line oversight role offering independent oversight and challenge of the performance of change delivery.
• Analyses and evaluates programme / sub-portfolio data to identify discrepancies, trends, exceptions, and opportunities, makes constructive challenge and recommendations on progress reporting, pulling out key themes.
• Maintains oversight of the delivery performance ensuring risks are being managed effectively and that the sub-portfolio/programme is making progress towards the agreed outcomes and goals.
• Supports review of investment cases and change requests ensuring they adhere to standards and are of sufficient quality.
• Ensure that change finances are managed in conjunction with the governance and standards set out in the RL change framework.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure that business reporting requirements are effectively met.
• Potential people management of Delivery PMO Lead(s) and/or Analyst(s).
• Maintain a close relationship and collaborate with the Enterprise Portfolio Office and the Centre of Excellence driving continuous improvement, and capability development.

More about you

• Previous experience of change portfolio delivery within a PMO function is essential
• Strong understanding of P3M principles and techniques
• Experience in the management of portfolio, programme and project lifecycles
• Experience in implementing agile change frameworks, and an understanding of PMO role within a regulated environment (preferably Financial Services)
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to understand and be innovative in their approach to managing budgets and risk.
• Experience of procurement and financial budget processes
• Experience of portfolio planning and resource management
• Strong understanding of risk management and assurance frameworks

If you think you would be a great fit for our team at Royal London but don’t meet all the requirements of the role, please get in touch as your application will still be considered.

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.