PMO Manager

PMO Manager

Waterloo - Hybrid Working
9 Month Fixed Term Contract
Full Time
Grade 4

At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced PMO Lead to support and enhance project delivery across our Technology pillars. This role will be instrumental in driving maturity in PMO service delivery, ensuring alignment across Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid methodologies, and enabling effective governance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.

Role overview:

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for:

• Oversee the dependency tracking process within assigned delivery areas, ensuring that the interdependencies between the projects within and across the delivery areas are clearly defined, agreed, and monitored, and that any dependency issues or conflicts are resolved or escalated.
• Oversee the financial tracking process within the delivery areas, ensuring that the budget and expenditure of the projects are accurate and up to date, and that any financial variances or issues are reported and addressed.
• Oversee the health check reviews of the projects within the delivery areas, ensuring that the reviews are conducted in accordance with the Enterprise PMO standards and criteria, and that the feedback and recommendations are communicated and implemented.
• Champion engagement across projects/programmes within technology pillar to ensure that all active initiatives comply with the project methodology and assurance processes.
• Lead the delivery of the PMO services at technology pillar level working independently or with a PMO analyst/admin as task manager.
• Oversee the coordination, collection and summary of Pillar reporting ensuring that all updates are received plus quality checking of data.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

You will Work with the Delivery Portfolio Manager to create/develop existing processes to drive maturity in PMO service delivery and project delivery process across Technology pillars.

You will need:

• Strong understanding of Agile (Scrum, SAFe), Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skill
• Attention to detail and quality
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, especially PowerPoint, Excel, and Project. Jira & Confluence, PowerBI
• Experience in PowerApps, EPM Tool, or other portfolio management tools is desirable
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills Ability to work effectively in a
• fast-paced and dynamic environment

We know our people are the secret to our success. That's why we're always looking for ways to reward great work. You'll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:

• Company Pension
• Hybrid Working
• Life Assurance
• Discount Cards For Stores

Why join us:

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.