Job Title: PMO Manager - Ways of Working
Job Description
You will play a pivotal role in enabling the successful delivery of a large-scale Lean Agile transition. This role is responsible for establishing and operating fit-for-purpose programme governance, ensuring transparency, pace, and confidence, while actively enabling the WoW teams to operate in Agile ways of working. The PMO Manager will strike the right balance between oversight and empowerment, ensuring governance expectations are met without compromising agility or outcomes. Working closely with the WOW Transformation Programme Director, this role acts as a trusted partner and the operational backbone of the programme.
Responsibilities
1. Design, operate, and continuously evolve lightweight, Agile-aligned programme governance.
2. Support the Sponsor and Programme Director in the effective operation of Steering Group and Executive Oversight forums.
3. Ensure timely, accurate, and insight-led reporting, enabling effective decision making.
4. Support the definition, tracking, and reporting of programme outcomes and benefits as set out in the business case.
5. Enable ongoing visibility of incremental value delivery through outcomes and OKRs.
6. Ensure benefits ownership and tracking are embedded across the programme.
7. Ensure the programme operates robust and effective risk, issue, and dependency management.
8. Facilitate RAID reviews and ensure clear escalation and mitigation strategies are in place.
9. Support quarterly planning events, ensuring alignment across workstreams.
10. Maintain visibility of cross-team dependencies, delivery risks, and capacity constraints.
11. Ensure programme artefacts, documentation, and outputs are managed in a clear, efficient, and auditable manner.
12. Promote pragmatic documentation standards aligned to Agile delivery.
13. Support effective stakeholder management and engagement across the programme.
14. Enable a clear and consistent engagement model across all impacted stakeholders.
Essential Skills
15. Proven experience supporting Agile Transformation or WoW programmes in a PMO or Transformation Management Office role.
16. Strong understanding of Agile and hybrid delivery models within complex and/or regulated environments.
17. Demonstrable experience supporting highly Agile teams and programmes.
18. Strong working knowledge of Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, and Confluence.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
19. experience in Lean Portfolio Management and value-based delivery (highly desirable).
20. experience with ServiceNow is desirable.
21. Pragmatic and outcomes-focused, able to balance control with empowerment.
22. Comfortable operating in ambiguity and change.
23. Credible and confident with senior leaders, able to influence without formal authority.
24. Strong continuous improvement mindset.
25. Confident with agile tooling, financial control, and structured problem solving.
Why Work Here?
As the UK's largest life and pensions mutual, we offer a dynamic work environment where innovation and collaboration are at the forefront. Employees enjoy a supportive culture that promotes work-life balance and professional growth opportunities.
Work Environment
The role operates in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, utilising advanced technologies such as Azure DevOps, Jira, and Confluence. The work involves engaging with multiple stakeholders, promoting Agile practices, and ensuring effective governance across the programme.
Location
Edinburgh, UK
Rate/Salary
- GBP Daily
Trading as TEKsystems. Allegis Group Limited, Maxis 2, Western Road, Bracknell, RG12 1RT, United Kingdom. No. 2876353. Allegis Group Limited operates as an Employment Business and Employment Agency as set out in the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. TEKsystems is a company within the Allegis Group network of companies (collectively referred to as "Allegis Group"). Aerotek, Aston Carter, EASi, Talentis Solutions, TEKsystems, Stamford Consultants and The Stamford Group are Allegis Group brands.