PMO MANAGER

DESCRIPTION

An opportunity has arisen for an experience PMO Manager to work in the Business Change function of Dixons Carphone. This role works in our strategic function and performs PMO activities to ensure successful delivery of the change agenda through governance and reporting of large, complex change programmes to realise the strategic and financial objectives of UK&I organisation (Dixons Carphone UK&I)

You will;

• Identify and define the strategic alignment of the Programme Deliverables to the businesses objectives
• Establish and arrange Programme governance structure and processes
• Detailed planning: setting up Programme plan incorporating project plans, milestone tracking. Identifying missing activities/workstreams
• Identify peaks of work across the projects and proposing solutions to resource constraints
• Budget and cost management: accurate and timely forecasting and monitoring of actuals
• Change control management
• Resource management and onboarding
• Define, organise and producing reports and management information
• Identify emerging risks and developing mitigating actions
• Manage dependencies and proposing resolution; identifying new dependencies; cross-projects dependency chart
• Manage assumptions, validating these and tracking the impact of changes to assumptions
• Escalate risks and issues to Programme Director and Business Owner
• Provide challenge / review of programme deliverables prior to submission to Boards and project groups
• Provide challenge to Project Managers and workstream leads on input to Programme plan
• Deal with issues and risks escalated by Project Managers and workstream leads
• Quality assurance for Programme
• Coach the Project Managers and workstream leads on project management best practice and methods
• Internal and external stakeholder management across a diverse set of stakeholders, with different priorities
• Identify potential challenges before they materialise
• Organise and monitor stakeholder and communication plans for the Programme
• Support constructive debate across the teams and providing upward challenge

Do you have?

• Experience in setting up and leading a PMO function for a large-scale Programme or Portfolio, spanning multiple business areas
• Project planning (including strong MS Project and Excel skills)
• Experienced in Sharepoint
• RAID management
• Governance processes including Programme Board support and reporting
• Budget management and financial forecasting
• It is important that the person in role has experience of performing a similar role within a major FTSE 100 organisation or comparable organisation, or has experience of delivering the requirements of this role across multiple clients as a member of a top tier professional services (consulting) firm
• It is desirable to have a recognised programme/ project management or Project Support Office qualification (e.g. MSP, PRINCE 2, APMP, P3O etc.)

Dixons Carphone is Europe’s number one electrical and telecommunications retailer and services company, with more than 40,000 colleagues across nine countries, including the UK and Ireland. Every day, we use our people’s expertise to reach out and help new customers. What’s more - we’re exploring extraordinary new markets, from wellness to security, so that in an ever more connected and constantly changing world, we can offer our customers the most comprehensive service.

It’s an exciting time to join us and find yourself a place in our growing success story, apply now.

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