Project Management Officer

Summary: The Portfolio PMO Manager will oversee the enterprise portfolio of initiatives for a global insurance broker, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and priorities. This role involves managing portfolio planning, performance tracking, and governance while driving compliance with financial and risk management requirements. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and facilitate effective communication across various teams. This position is offered on a contract basis with hybrid working arrangements and is classified as inside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the enterprise portfolio of initiatives, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy, priorities, and funding constraints.
• Support portfolio planning, prioritisation, demand management, and capacity planning processes.
• Track portfolio-level performance, benefits realisation, risks, and dependencies.
• Facilitate portfolio reviews and governance forums with senior leadership.
• Define, implement, and continuously improve PMO frameworks, methodologies, tools, and best practices.
• Ensure consistent application of project and program management standards across the organisation.
• Establish and maintain portfolio-level dashboards, KPIs, and reporting cadence.
• Drive compliance with governance, financial, and risk management requirements.
• Support portfolio budgeting, forecasting, and financial tracking in partnership with Finance.
• Monitor investment performance, cost vs. benefit, and return on investment (ROI).
• Collaborate with functional leaders to optimise resource utilisation and capacity.
• Act as a trusted advisor to executives and senior stakeholders on portfolio health and decision-making.
• Communicate portfolio status, insights, and recommendations clearly and concisely.
• Build strong relationships across business, IT, and delivery teams.

Key Skills:

• Experience in PMO, portfolio management, program management, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience managing or supporting enterprise-level project portfolios.
• Strong understanding of project, program, and portfolio management frameworks (e.g., PMO, PPM).
• Experience with portfolio reporting, governance, and executive-level communication.
• Experience working in matrixed or complex organisational environments.
• Exposure to Agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery models.
• Experience with portfolio management tools (e.g., Clarity, Planview, Jira Align, MS Project Online).

Salary (Rate): £65.00/hr

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other