Project Support Manager PMO - Hertfordshire

Minstrell Recruitment currently require a Project Support Manager PMO – Automation / Manufacturing / Material Handling

Excellent salary plus pension, training & development. Excellent salary and development opportunities

Vacancy description

My client is a world leading innovator in online grocery shopping with a pioneering business model in which they are planning expansion into the global market. Developing their own technology and new customer propositions, opening multiple sites at an accelerating rate and engaging in exciting new business partnerships, there has never been a better time to join them. The expansion into the international market will push them to be even better as they demonstrate what they can do on a global scale.

In the Senior Project Support Manager role, you will play an active role as a Project Support Manager and in addition will manage a small team who will partner with, and support the Implementation team in managing PMO deliverables across a portfolio of projects. These tasks are broadly focused, but not limited to, the creation and maintenance of project programmes, budget maintenance and project reporting. This role would suit a career PMO professional, ideally with some previous management experience.

Working as part of an evolving Project Management Office (PMO) in the Logistics and Development area of the business, you will take responsibility for your team and ensure that under your guidance, they are able to deliver a quality service to key stakeholders on a project by project basis.

You will work collaboratively within the growing PMO team, reporting in to the PMO Manager.

Key Accountabilities:

• Management of a small group of Project Support Managers
• Responsibility for PMO deliverables (listed below)
• Ability to create, maintain and report on integrated project programmes across complex large scale projects
• Ability to maintain multiple programme views for different audiences
• Maintain and report on a 6 week look ahead and understand critical path analysis
• Identify programme risks and assess the potential impact to the critical path
• Be a point of contact for all streams and stakeholders for the project programme
• Maintain and track project methodology
• Tracking and reporting the progress of the programme and Storybook against actual project delivery
• Budget administration and analysis across several multi-million pound projects
• Weekly performance reporting to assist project managers with ensuring project budgets remain on track
• Driving regular budget reviews with stakeholders from various work streams
• Working with project streams to identify and create project budgets, design, install etc
• Collaborating with streams to deliver budget re-forecasts for projects
• Processing project change requests and budget transfers
• Administering the project change management processes
• Being a point of contact / escalation for project budget related queries
• Regular project analysis, data and portfolio reporting
• Ensuring process compliance and providing project governance
• Assisting with ad-hoc requests and representing PMO where required

Required skills/experience:

• Excellent numeric and Excel skills
• Problem solving nature
• A proactive, innovative, self-motivated and results-driven individual
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong desire and passion to collaborate with others towards a shared goal
• Flexible approach and can do attitude
• A highly logical, analytical and forward thinking approach
• Effective communication and relationship building skills at all levels
• Excellent planning, organisation and time management skills
• Ability to work quickly and efficiently under pressure, and respond well to changing priorities
• Confidence to challenge potential programme delays
• Flexible approach to travel & site visits
• People management
• Extensive experience within a fast paced highly pressurised office environment
• Managing a small team

In addition to the salary

• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Private Medical Insurance
• 23 days holiday, increasing to 25 with 3 years’ service
• Employee Assistance Program
• Income protection
• Share schemes
• 15% company discount

Application Process

If you have the above skills and wish to be considered for this position or find out more details then please submit your CV.

We will endeavour to contact all applicants however if you do not hear from me within two weeks then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful.