Head of Portfolio Management - Telecoms in London, South West London, United Kingdom
Head of Portfolio Management
Salary £88,000-£99,000pa + excellent benefits incl 8k car allowance
Based in Milton Keynes or London
Our client is a well established Nationwide Rail company whose professionalism and well respected name have been instrumental in their success. They provide an exceptional service to their customers and are focused on continually improving this.
You will need:
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Chartered member of a relevant professional body (e.g Institution of Project Management)
- Relevant experience in the successful management of significant projects in Telecom or systems technology and business change
- Demonstrable experience of assessing situations strategically and tactically
- Practitioner experience of risk management
- Strong commercial focus and financially astute
- A comprehensive knowledge of the principles of the investment process
- Strong leadership ability
- Excellent communications skills and the ability to develop relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders at Director and Executive levelDesirable
- A post graduate business qualification
- Good knowledge of/experience in the UK rail industry
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt.
The role:
To lead and manage the Portfolio Management Office that provides the integrated programme controls, services and assurance to all Programmes and the governance for planning and integration of the major programmes and projects within the scope of the Telecoms division in order to achieve successful and efficient delivery to cost, time and quality. To lead on competence and technical development of resources.
- Lead and manage the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) team and lead the provisioning of the following PMO Services: Project Management, Quality, Cost, Risk and Issue Management, Planning, Change Control Process, Programme Assurance and Governance, Reporting, Document and Knowledge Management, PMO Communications..
- Lead and continually improve the Project & Programme management and change control processes and methodologies and audit their use throughout the programme to be complaint with Legal and Company processes.
- Lead improvements of services that are provided by the PMO team to enable alignment to the programme’s needs.
- Audit the quality of the management information being provided by the Programme Management Office to confirm that it meets the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
- Provide insight and recommendation from the Management Information provided by the Programme Management Office to bring together planning, scope, risks, issues, dependencies and project progress.
- Lead the assurance panel for programmes or projects, reporting on key findings and recommendations to the panel and senior management, and proactively following up on compliance to recommendations.
- Lead, develop and manage an integrated plan to enable the co-ordination of all programmes and projects and resolve planning and integration conflicts.
If you are looking for an opportunity to join a company which is growing – Contact us now on <phone number removed> !! To apply for this position contact Linda Davison by emailing your C.V to linda. Davison @ vital. uk. com
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