Lead PMO £38-42K Essex

I am currently recruiting for a Project Management Office Lead Based at my Fortune 500 global award winning client based in Essex. Salary £38-42k Job purpose: To enable improved project delivery, across all projects by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of project management. The PMO lead will support the program director by driving and maintaining the standard for project management across all projects. Project Monitoring and Control *Responsible for the effective running of the project board / director reviews, including documenting and reporting the outcome of review items such as actions and approvals. *Manage the weekly scheduling of the following review items: oStage Reviews oException Reviews oExecutive RIO's oChange Items *Monitor projects for exception (against the approved plan) and provide relevant stakeholders with key information *Maintain the quality of the 'Visual Planning Files' through effective management of the tools and live data links. Project Support *Facilitate project planning and risk management workshops with project teams. *Provide pragmatic project planning advice to project teams (e.g lifecycle planning, risk management, quality management, communication, reporting) *Support Project Managers and Lead Engineers with preparation activities leading up to stage reviews. Quality Assurance *Work with project teams towards the creation of good set of 'Project Initiation Documents' (e.g. Lifecycle model, FxP, Project Plan, Business Case, Strategy Documents, Visual Planning File) *Utilise knowledge from industry models (e.g. PRINCE2) and the project management process to actively drive best practice within the project teams. Drive Improvement *Work closely with stakeholders and improvement teams to transition the next pipeline of improvements seamlessly into the project management way of working. *Analyse historical project data to provide valuable business insight and provide a foundation for potential improvement projects such as resource and timing estimating models Skills needed: *Organisational and planning skills *Ability to Communicate effectively *Reporting, presentation and facilitation skills *MS Excel (functions, formulas, data structuring)

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