Job Title: Technical PMO Manager - Tooling

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Edge        

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 28th January 2024

Group Transformation aims to be a catalyst for change, to drive innovation and operational excellence within Royal London. We bring together colleagues from Change, Procurement, Workplace, Rectifications and Data Management. 

We work across Royal London to deliver the Group’s strategic ambitions. In partnership with the different business areas, we work to embed agility, adaptability and customer/colleague focus to deliver sustainable growth. We make sure that we deliver great outcomes that our customers and members benefit from, and we also make sure we get the best value from all of our procurement interactions.

As part of the PMO team, supporting the Senior PMO Manager – Centre of Excellence the primary objective of this role is to lead on the operational execution and development of our Portfolio, Programme and Project Reporting and Tooling capability and service offering.

You will lead a small team of Data, Tooling & Reporting PMO Analysts.  Maintaining a close relationship and collaborating with the Enterprise Portfolio Office and Delivery Oversight PMO Teams driving continuous improvement, and capability development.

About the role

• Ensure defined standards, processes, templates are adhered to
• Ensure timely and quality flow of information between sub-Portfolios, and Portfolio Office stakeholders
• Collating complex data sources into usable dashboards to support decision making and insights for stakeholders
• Collaborating with stakeholders to develop the appropriate tooling and reporting solution

About you

• Highly skilled with Excel, VBA, Power BI
• Highly experienced with PPM tools, with management config etc
• Strong understanding of P3M principles and techniques
• Experience in the management of portfolio, programme and project lifecycles
• Experience of both Agile and Waterfall models and their application within a PMO
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to understand and be innovative in their approach to managing budgets and risk

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits  

Inclusion, diversity and belonging 

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.