About the Role
Expleo is seeking an experienced PMO to offer support and light-touch Project Management across multiple workstreams. This role involves coordinating activities, providing governance, planning, and reporting to ensure effective project delivery. The PMO will maintain controls, manage risks and dependencies, and facilitate informed decision-making among stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Define, maintain, and report progress against an integrated delivery plan, including key milestones, decision points, and stage gates.
- Drive day-to-day delivery discipline across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Track milestones, dependencies, and blockers.
- Ensure clear routes to escalation for risks or delivery slippage requiring senior intervention.
- Maintain core programme controls, including action logs, risk logs, issue logs, dependency logs, and decision logs.
- Ensure clear ownership and follow-up of actions.
- Coordinate governance meetings.
- Prepare meeting agendas and supporting documentation.
- Capture minutes and actions.
- Support project boards, leadership check-ins, and working-level governance meetings.
- Manage programme budgets and resource forecasts.
- Track actual spend against planned expenditure.
- Conduct variance analysis to identify financial risks and opportunities.
- Own monthly accruals.
- Produce financial reports to support governance, decision-making, and cost control.
- Prepare reporting packs and meeting materials.
- Produce progress tracking and RAG status reporting.
- Support preparation of board papers.
- Provide evidence of delivery against milestones.
- Maintain document discipline and version control.
- Support configuration management activities.
- Ensure information is available for effective oversight, assurance, and execution.
Requirements
- A relevant project management qualification is required (PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, APM PMQ, or MAPM).
- Agile or Scrum certification is desirable (PSM, CSM, or SAFe Agilist).
- Proven ability to maintain integrated delivery plans, milestones, decision points, and dependencies across multiple workstreams.
- Strong programme governance experience, including preparation of papers, packs, agendas, minutes, actions, and RAG reporting.
- Excellent RAID, dependency, decision, and action management capability.
- Strong attention to detail and document control discipline.
- Ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate risks, issues, and key updates clearly and proactively.
- Analytical capability to identify trends, risks, slippage, and corrective actions using project data.
- Proven ability to manage budgets, resource plans, forecasting, financial reporting, and variance analysis.
- Proven experience as a PMO on complex, multi-workstream projects.
- Experience delivering governance, planning, reporting, risk and dependency management, stakeholder engagement, resource tracking, and financial management.
- Experience using Microsoft Office and project/reporting tools such as Microsoft Project, Clarity, Clarizen, or equivalent.
- Experience working on regulatory change projects or programmes.
- Experience in complex stakeholder environments.
- Ability to coach colleagues in project frameworks and delivery best practices.
- Ability to quickly understand new environments and contribute effectively.
Skills
- Project Management
- Agile
- Scrum
- RAID Management
- Dependency Management
- Decision Management
- Action Management
- Attention to Detail
- Document Control
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Communication
- Risk Management
- Reporting
- Budget Management
- Resource Planning
- Financial Reporting
- Variance Analysis
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Project
- Clarity
- Clarizen
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Education Level
- Project Management Qualification (PRINCE2 Practitioner, PMP, APM PMQ, or MAPM)
- Agile or Scrum Certification (PSM, CSM, or SAFe Agilist) - desirable
Benefits
- Collaborative working environment
- Opportunities to expand skills and participate in inspiring projects
- Expleo Academy for accredited training courses
- Competitive company benefits
About the Company
- Expleo is a company that empowers technology-loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects.
- They foster a collaborative working environment where employees stand shoulder to shoulder with clients and peers.
- Expleo operates with a 'one team' mentality, encouraging big thinking and challenging the status quo.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, Expleo ensures its recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicates and promotes vacancies, offers interviews to disabled people who meet minimum criteria, anticipates and provides reasonable adjustments, and supports existing employees with disabilities.
- Expleo is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
- They treat everyone fairly and equitably, providing additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive.
