Job description
Posted 11 October 2021
PMO Manager.
Location – London/ Remote Working
Pay rate - £440/Day PAYE to £564/Day Umbrella
Duration – Dec 2022
Start date - ASAP
The role will report to CMB CTA PM and Market Participation Programme Lead (role is split 50:50 across the two). This is a key role responsible for the moving the programme forward as well as playing a critical role in driving and managing the programme’s delivery performance.
In this role, you will:
- The role of the PMO Manager will be to support the CTA Programme PM’s, co-ordinate all status report submissions, manage risks and issues and coordinate plans across the CMB Core Team
- Additional responsibilities will include coordinating governance and reporting for the CMB CTA Portfolio and responding to ad hoc queries and requests as needed.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring alignment with the Group Transformation Programme (GTP) processes and the Change Framework
- Working closely with Programme PM’s and broader CMB CTA stakeholders across a number of Programme Management activities
- Proactively monitors project execution to effectively identify and track risks, issues and dependencies.
- Takes ownership of risks and issues where appropriate and ensures resolution according to agreed timescales and escalates where appropriate
- Proposes recommendations to aid decision making in order maintain progress towards delivery and ultimate benefits realisation
- Ensures alignment to the prescribed processes and change methodologies used within the programme, including Change Framework and other TOEC related processes.
- Collaborate and builds positive stakeholder relationships across CTA Portfolio, including within CMB and wider Group teams within GTP
- Ensuring governance controls and procedures are embedded and tracked, proposing improvements where necessary.
- Supporting core governance processes for CTA Portfolio alongside ePMO Resource
Qualifications
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
- Project or Portfolio Management experience within HSBC (preferably within Commercial Banking), which includes communications capabilities, decision making and problem solving skills.
- Understanding and proven experience of Programme and Project Management methodologies, including planning and tracking.
- Excellent understanding of risk, issues and dependency tracking.
- Pro-active and positive attitude to planning and engagement, working across teams and functions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation.
- Proven experience of positive, challenging interactions across functions.
- Experience in relevant tooling, including Jira and Clarity.
- Understanding of benefits tracking against outcomes.
- Excellent time-management and ability to manage own workload.