Oldham
Balfour Beatty Highways are recruiting for a PMO Lead to join the team at our site in Mottram, Longdendale near Oldham. The PMO Lead is accountable for leading and continually improving the programme management framework across a complex portfolio. The role brings together senior PMO leadership, project Balfour Beatty Highways are recruiting for a PMO Lead to join the team at our site in Mottram, Longdendale near Oldham. The PMO Lead is accountable for leading and continually improving the programme management framework across a complex portfolio. The role brings together senior PMO leadership, project controls, data-led performance insight, and programme improvement to strengthen delivery confidence, improve governance, and support informed decision-making. It requires a strong balance of strategic thinking, operational discipline, stakeholder influence, and the ability to lead change across multidisciplinary teams. Some of the duties of the PMO Lead will include; • Lead and continuously improve the programme management framework, ensuring consistent processes across cost, schedule, scope, project documentation management, risk and reporting., • Incorporate Lean Thinking and Business improvement opportunities to remove waste and improve performance through positive challenge., • Integrate data and insights across P6, Power BI, Oracle and other systems to create a single source of truth for programme performance., • Facilitate alignment between project teams, programme functions, commercial teams, executive stakeholders and the PMO., • Work closely and collaborate effectively with the client and delivery Teams to strengthen end-to-end programme cohesion, delivery visibility and unified delivery governance., • Provide oversight and governance of programme performance reporting, ensuring clear visibility of KPIs, milestones, schedule health, risk insights and cost forecasts., • Produce effective integrated reporting packs and dashboards (Power BI, executive dashboards, integrated programme performance reports) that support decision-making across the portfolio., • Maintain robust governance and control frameworks to ensure the accuracy, completeness and quality of schedule, financial and risk data across the portfolio., • Analyse trends, identify inefficiencies, and recommend interventions to improve programme performance., • Provide oversight of contract obligations, ensuring risks and commitments are effectively controlled., • Establish strong integration between commercial, planning, PMO, reporting and resource management functions, ensuring robust resource forecasting, allocation and utilisation., • Ensure that programmes are consistently, sufficiently and appropriately resourced, and that financial decisions are fully informed by commercial, schedule and resource impacts, • Develop integration-focused frameworks that embed proactive management of risks, opportunities and dependencies. • Proven experience in programme management or PMO Leadership within complex capital programmes., • Experience in budget management, resource forecasting, and programme level, • financial governance., • Strong knowledge of NEC contracts and their application to project controls., • Familiarity with major infrastructure project delivery and assurance frameworks., • Demonstrates a track record of successfully leading and managing teams to achieve strategic outcomes and drive organisational success., • Technical proficiency in PMO/project controls tools: Experience with programme management systems such as Primavera P6, Power BI, Oracle and Microsoft Suite, • Relevant professional qualification or chartered status (e.g., PM, PMO, programme management) is highly desirable, • Has an ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts, • Pays attention to detail and sees things through to completion Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities. As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits: • Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow., • 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata), • Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave, • Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more… Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work. At Balfour Beatty, we want everyone to be able to thrive and achieve their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. We’re making great progress through our Value Everyone DEI Action Plan, but we know we’ve got more to do. Find out more about our values and DEI initiatives. As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview. We are committed to our processes being barrier-free and will support adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Please let the recruiter for this role know if you require any adjustments. We’re looking to continually improve our recruitment process, so if you have any feedback, please share this with us via #J-18808-Ljbffr