PMO Lead - London, United Kingdom - Eaglecliff Limited

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Exciting opportunity for a PMO Lead to join this global Energy company.

This is an exciting time to be joining this world-leading company as they transform themselves from a traditional Oil & Gas company into a leading name within the Renewables sector.

This includes the creation of an already highly successful new Power Tradingdesk within the Energy Trading team as well as new ventures into various innovative solutions around the supply of Renewables including wind farms, electric vehicle charging, solar panel heating and battery storage.

These innovative solutions provide opportunitiesfor exceptionally highly talented individuals to contribute to the success of this transition where you will be working with some of the best people in the industry working on new and ground-breaking initiatives utilising the very latest technology.

About The Role

The Commercial Operations organization works in partnership with T&S to deliver capabilities that enable them to run the business, as well as build capabilities that change the business.

Programme Project Delivery (PPD) sit in Commercial Operations and:

  • support T&S with cross business line Programme, Project, PMO, Assurance and Change management
- delivers a methodology that enables effective Programme, Project, PMO, delivery and embeds change
- acts as the custodian of the overall Programme and Project agenda for T&S, enabling prioritisation activity and cross business line stakeholder alignment

As a PMO Lead within PPD, you will be expected to set up & manage the Project Management Office for T&S projects.


The lead has responsibility for:

  • Setting up the PMO structures, rigour and ways of working
  • Overseeing and monitoring projects to ensure that cost, quality, and delivery are controlled, and targets achieved.
  • Championing and following project management standards and best practice, including continuous improvement.
Your Background Needs To Include

  • Previous experience in a PMO office and executing PMO processes and standards (6+ years)
  • Supporting the PM, in collaboration with workstream leads and wider stakeholder group to understand project progress and provide appropriate facilitation to drive the execution of project deliverables (especially when there is a need to make critical decisionsto address underlying risks or issues blocking the progress).
  • Planning and RAID management
  • Ability to create and maintain project plans, including risks, actions, issues, dependencies and deploy interventions to mitigate risk. Ensure project activities are uptodate and that actions owners are followed up with.


  • Reporting

  • Ability to produce reports to the highest quality. Develop slides to report on progress to support both the programme Governance and report out to the Portfolio level.
  • Financial tracking and management of the project budget.
  • Facilitate project meetings and workshops and take minutes.
  • Stakeholder management ability to understand your stakeholders, their needs, their ways of working and adapt your style accordingly. Proven ability to navigate push back from stakeholders and develop an aligned way forward path.
  • Confident presentation skills, with the ability to use a range of Microsoft tools to produce professional and informative data for stakeholders as needed
  • Ideally have knowledge and/or competence in Trading, Supply, Risk, Compliance, Process, Data, or Systems.
  • Aligned with Shells values of Honesty, Integrity, Respect with a focus on Safety.
  • Ideally have knowledge and competency in change management, with the ability to support the Project/Programme manager to deliver and embed sustainable change outcomes.
  • Knowledge and competency in strategic problem solving and project management.
  • Ability to deliver in a highly ambiguous and fastpaced environment.
  • Quality focused ability to administer all aspects of the role to the highest quality.
  • Professional qualifications in project management desired e.g., PRINCE 2, Agile project management.
  • Experience and knowledge of project management methodologies and tools.
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university (or equivalent work experience).

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