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    Head of PMO - Woking, United Kingdom - Roke

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    About Us

    Built over a 60-year heritage, Roke offers specialist knowledge in sensors, communications, cyber, and AI and ML. We change the way organisations think and act – through dynamic insights from the analysis of multiple layers of data. We take care of the innovative, technical stuff that keeps everyone safe – that's our mission, passion, and motivation.

    Joining a team united by purpose and ambition, you'll be at the heart of an exciting growth journey: having doubled in size over the last 4 years, we intend to double our headcount by 2027. At Roke, every individual counts. We push technical boundaries, together. We re-invest in product innovation, and we empower our people to make a difference.

    We are a friendly and flexible team with a culture of 'time, trust and freedom'. The role may give the opportunity to work from any of our offices or from home as necessary and we will consider flexible working arrangements. Having a diverse workforce is a key priority for us and is critical to our success. We pride ourselves on listening to each other's aspirations and are accommodating wherever possible.

    The Opportunity

    Transform an existing transactional PMO from a programme support organisation to a mature PMO organisation providing services to a £100 million Business Unit

    Primary Job Purpose

  • Resilient individual to lead change management
  • To ensure business success through the provision of value add services to functions which exist within the Business Unit;
  • Promote a culture of Continuous Improvement and drive optimisation across the Business Unit and the wider Roke, supporting business change and identifying and consolidating internal processes.
  • To provide a 'Front door' for knowledge & Information and general PPM guidance within the Business Unit
  • Support decision making through the provision of accurate and consistent data to Operations, Delivery Units and other internal functions;
  • Ensure the BU is adhering to company policy and process through compliance analysis and corrective actions.
  • Key Responsibilities

  • To be accountable for the development and provision of all key PMO services (including but not limited to, planning, financials, resource management, risk and issue management, reporting, governance, and method compliance) whilst delegating responsibility across the PMO team to achieve maximum effectiveness.
  • Promote and nurture a culture that motivates and inspires excellent collective and individual P3M performance, embraces change and that delivers continuous improvement; initiate and lead change and continuous improvement programs.
  • Drive the identification, development, deployment and reassignment of P3M resources.
  • Undertake the role of custodian for the local P3M standards and their continuous improvement; maintain a centralised repository for project management knowledge, templates, and local practices.
  • Design, implement and support effective P3M tools. Maintain a centralised repository for status reports, work plans, proposals, change requests, etc. and ensure timely updates and performance reporting processes.
  • Develop reporting frameworks, utilising thoughtful user-focused design to produce consistent P3M reports that are simple to complete and provide easily digestible data, visualisations, analysis and insights to senior leaders and sponsors, to enable effective decisions / actions to be taken.
  • Establish and maintain governance for delivery, defining clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities that align with corporate governance practice.
  • Maintain the Business Unit's Enterprise Risk Management System into which all core functions within the BU contribute.
  • Actively drive the Roke PMO Community alongside other Heads of PMO in other Business Units to drive consistency and cross-Roke standardisation.
  • Person Specification

    Education and Qualifications

  • You will be asked to provide evidence from your experience leading similar transformation projects
  • Degree qualification - Desired
  • Appropriate P3M qualifications (P3O, APM, MoP, MSP, Prince2)
  • Knowledge, Skills & Experience

  • Experience of setting up PMOs in different environments, including gathering requirements, developing services/people and embedding services into a BAU PMO offering.
  • Data analysis experience - Desired
  • Information and Data Management experience - Preferred
  • P3M experience in a customer facing organisations, preferably with experience of delivering complex frameworks and programmes – Preferred
  • Knowledge of developing a reporting architecture and solutions utilising the Microsoft Power platform.
  • The Benefits and Perks...

  • Hybrid working: A minimum of 40% of your monthly hours working at your base location, subject to role requirements.
  • Flexi-time: Working hours to suit you and your life.
  • Annual bonus: Based on profit share and personal performance.
  • Private medical insurance: Includes cover for existing conditions.
  • Holiday: 25 days plus public holidays with the ability to purchase extra leave and your birthday off.
  • Chemring Share Save: Monthly savings into a 3 or 5 year plan.
  • Clearances

    Due to the nature of this role, we require you to be eligible to achieve SC clearance. As a result, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the for the last 5 years.

    The Next Step

    Click apply, submitting an up-to-date CV setting out how you meet the above criteria


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