PMO Lead

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Why choose us?

Choosing to work for SMS means choosing to make a difference. We are changing how businesses and consumers use energy for the better, helping achieve a greener, sustainable, and more affordable energy system for everyone. Through our range of innovative energy solutions, we are delivering the future of smart energy – working closely with private and public sector partners we are playing a critical role in transforming and decarbonising the UK economy by 2050.

What's in it for you?

• 25 personal holiday days per year (with additional 8 public holidays) increasing to 30 personal days after 5 years of service (includes options to buy and sell)
• Hybrid working options.
• Automatic enrolment into our Employee Ownership Scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity leave. Paternity and Adoption leave.
• 24/7 free and confidential employee assistance service.
• Medicash health plan offers a wide variety of benefits from cashback on everyday healthcare treatments like optical, dental and physio treatments. Discounted gym memberships and free 24/7 online GP.
• Life Insurance (4 x annual salary)
• Pension matching scheme (up to 5% of salary)
• Developing our people is important to us - we support and encourage development by offering internal and external accredited courses, secondments and study support.

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What's the role?

Reporting into the Head of Change, the PMO Lead is an important role, responsible for coordinating the planning, management and reporting of IT and non-IT change at the portfolio and programme level. Responsible for financial and risk tracking across the portfolio, providing guidance on tools within the portfolio space.

The PMO Lead contributes to the reporting framework and provides expert interpretation of metrics and portfolio wide updates for senior stakeholders. This will include ensuring effective reporting mechanisms are in place.

The PMO Lead will be required to manage governance for Board and Change Committee meetings, supporting project and programme delivery from a governance oversight and assistance level. A key area of the role is to work alongside and be directed by the Head of Change and work closely with Change Team colleagues to ensure continuous improvement within the SMS overarching Change Delivery Framework.

This role is offered on a hybrid-working basis and is contracted at 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Key Responsibilities:

Some of the key responsibilities for this role include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Responsible for maintaining the Portfolio and supporting policies, ensuring they reflect best practice and are tailored to the organisations scale and style.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining the template artefacts required to support the change portfolio function.
• Responsible for the content and quality of the Agile Project Management Office SharePoint.
• Responsible for supporting governance forums. This includes, programme boards, Change Committee and IT Sub-Committee, including reporting packs, agendas, terms of reference, minute writing and supporting the committee chair as requested.
• Contributing to audits relevant to the portfolio space.
• Responsible for working with Delivery Managers to clarify and track programme risks, issues and dependencies.
• Provides advice/guidance to support adoption of portfolio tools and adherence to policies and standards.

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