Job Title: PMO Manager – Agile Delivery

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Edge

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 17th March 2024

As part of the PMO team, supporting the Senior PMO Manager – Delivery Oversight the primary objective is to lead on oversight, challenge, and assurance activity across an Agile sub-portfolio. You will ensure the appropriate Governance, insights, delivery, and outcome reporting are timely and accurate in line with methodology to drive decision making across the Sub-Portfolio.

You will lead a small team of Delivery PMO Leads and Analysts.  Maintaining a close relationship and collaborate with the Enterprise Portfolio Office and the Centre of Excellence driving continuous improvement, and capability development.

About the role

• Ensure defined standards, processes, templates are adhered to
• Support with training, manage knowledge and provide independent assurance
• Ensure timely and quality flow of information between the individual change teams and the overall Portfolio
• Provide delivery support, oversight, and challenge to the change practitioners in the execution of change, ensuring that change is governed effectively and that reporting, and insights are timely, accurate and effective to drive decision making across the portfolio

About you

• Must have experience of working with enduring teams; Squads, Value Streams or Goals.
• Strong understanding and experience of working with Agile teams
• 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
• Experience of procurement and financial budget processes

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.