Senior PMO Planner - Northampton, United Kingdom - Broster Buchanan Ltd

Broster Buchanan Ltd

Verified Company

Northampton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior PMO Planner
Start ASAP
Initial 6-month project
£400-450pd (outside IR35)
Hybrid, 2 days a week Northampton

This is a new role to support the digital programme director with keeping a large ERP implementation and digital transformation on time, within budget and running smoothly.

The business is a large manufacturing company going through a period of change.

They have well-run and structured project teams and require the hands-on support of an experienced PMO planner or PMO lead.

The role will be managing the key planning, administration and reporting within the PMO but it also has a heavy focus on the people, processes, risk & governance of the programme too.

The key responsibilities of the senior PMO Planner will include:

Working with workstream leads & project managers on the creation of detailed plans in a consistent structure across all workstreams, identifying constraints, and ensuring an integrated plan is kept up to date and on track
Lead risk analyses and adjustments by holding regular assurance reviews of individual projects
Working with the programme director on the development, roll out and implementation of reporting, planning and other assurance or governance improvements.
Lead the rollout of planning best practices, ensuring staff are trained and providing ongoing coaching for staff as required
Tracking of critical dependencies, feeding into the PMO for tracking, reporting and risk management

The key skills and experience the business is looking for include:

At least 5+ years of experience as a PMO planner working on large ERP and digital transformation programmes
Strong examples of identifying risk and governance
Prior experience AGILE project planning
Exposure to D365 ERP implementations is beneficial