Head of Programme Management Office - Hoddesdon, United Kingdom - VolkerWessels

VolkerWessels

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Hoddesdon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

VolkerWessels UK is a market leading contracting group of five closely linked businesses.

We provide integrated and ground-breaking solutions for the civil engineering and construction sectors, with specialisms in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

As the Head of Programme Management office, you will own and co-ordinate the central portfolio/programme management office function.

You will develop and drive governance processes, to guide and control projects as they move through the various pipeline stages, ensuring 'gate criteria' are applied, exceptions are managed, and project statuses are accurately updated and reported on, and projects are closed.

You will manage and report on the portfolio plan with milestones and a critical path to support prioritisation decisions, feeding in project level information provided by Project and Programme Managers.

You will be responsible for setting up a PMO Frame work based on ITIL, a Governance structure and Delivery.

About you:

Significant experience in portfoliolevel assurance and project and programme management excellence
Strong analytical, organisational and decisionmaking skills
Strong relationship building, influencing and communications skills
Strong understanding of, and experience using, Programme / Portfolio Management processes/tools (e.g. Perform)
Strong PC skills (Microsoft Office/Project etc)
Good understanding of financial reports/cost analysis and controls
Line management experience
Proactive, creative, driven and resultsorientated

Why work with us?:

VolkerWessels UK operate through five separate, but complementary businesses, working in collaboration and using our specialist skills to deliver an integrated service for our clients.

At any one time, our people are working on our sites or in our offices, for around 250 projects across the UK.

Everyday we overcome challenges, fulfilling our commitments, no matter what. That's what our business is about, that's how our people find satisfaction in their jobs.

We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.

We offer a range of benefits, including:

Competitive salary
Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
Private medical care
Pension
Life Assurance
Cycle to Work scheme
Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
Training and development opportunitiescomprehensive skillsbased training
Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
Employee Assistance programme
Mental health, physical health, and financial support
24/7 Virtual GP service

Fairness, inclusion and respect:

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect.

So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.

Additional information:

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.

VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its
entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.