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About the Role

Lead the successful delivery of STACK EMEA’s strategic project and programme portfolio, ensuring critical initiatives are delivered with pace, discipline, and measurable business outcomes. Lead a project management team, working closely with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to provide direction, remove barriers, and maintain focus on priorities. Strengthen project delivery practices and provide day-to-day leadership for the wider PMO function during the EMEA VP, PMO’s leave.

Responsibilities

Lead the delivery of strategic projects and programmes across STACK EMEA, ensuring agreed scope, timelines, budgets, and business outcomes are effectively managed.
Lead, coach, and develop a small, experienced project management team, setting clear expectations and creating a culture of ownership, collaboration, and accountability.
Provide direction and support to project managers, ensuring delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and expected benefits are realistic and actively managed.
Maintain oversight of the project and programme portfolio, identifying emerging risks, competing priorities, and delivery constraints.
Intervene where projects are off track, establishing effective recovery plans and securing timely decisions from sponsors and senior stakeholders.
Partner with leaders across Development, Delivery, Operations, Commercial, Finance, People & Culture, and other functions to remove barriers and keep critical initiatives moving.
Support portfolio prioritisation, helping ensure approved initiatives remain aligned with STACK EMEA’s strategic objectives, business priorities, and available capacity.
Provide clear, concise reporting and insights to senior leadership on portfolio performance, key risks, priorities, and decisions required.
Ensure consistent and pragmatic application of STACK’s established PMO methodology, governance framework, and project lifecycle.
Improve project delivery tools, templates, and ways of working where they add value, while maintaining consistency with the established PMO operating model.
Capture lessons learned and embed effective practices that improve delivery maturity, operational effectiveness, and project outcomes across STACK EMEA.
Promote a delivery-focused culture that encourages accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Significant experience leading complex projects, programmes, or portfolios, with a strong track record of delivering strategic initiatives and measurable business outcomes.
Experience leading and developing project management professionals, with the ability to get the best from a small, experienced team.
Strong programme and project management expertise, including experience applying traditional, Agile, and hybrid delivery approaches according to project requirements.
Proven experience identifying and recovering projects that are off track, managing risk, and driving actions through to resolution.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to work effectively with executive sponsors, senior leaders, and cross-functional teams.
Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance competing priorities, challenge constructively, and make clear recommendations.
A pragmatic approach to PMO governance, with experience applying project methodologies and controls in a way that supports effective and timely delivery.
APM, PMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent professional project/programme management qualification or relevant experience.
Experience within data centres, construction, infrastructure, engineering, or real estate development would be advantageous.
Experience with portfolio reporting, dashboards, and performance metrics would be an advantage, particularly where these have been used to provide meaningful insight to senior leadership.

Location

EMEA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

Education Level

APM, PMP, PRINCE2, or an equivalent professional project/programme management qualification or relevant experience

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits designed to support you professionally and personally.

About the Company

STACK Infrastructure is a leading global provider of digital infrastructure, built to help the world’s most innovative companies meet their most critical infrastructure needs.
With a rapidly expanding presence across EMEA, STACK develops and operates highly scalable, sustainable data centre infrastructure designed to meet the evolving requirements of our customers.
Our teams work collaboratively across markets and disciplines to deliver complex projects, solve challenging problems, and create infrastructure that supports the continued growth of the digital economy.