Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (hybrid working)
The PPMO Manager provides leadership, direction, and strategic oversight for all PMO services across Steam IS. This role is accountable for portfolio governance, programme assurance, planning standards, resource management, risk and controls, and the consistent application of project delivery frameworks.
The role ensures high‑quality delivery across major programmes (including Zenith), business‑critical projects, and the BAU portfolio, while partnering closely with senior leadership to enable informed decision‑making and delivery confidence.
The ideal candidate will be technically experienced, a strong people manager who is flexible, proactive and resilient whilst ensuring a focus on balancing commercial need against delivery frameworks. You should have experience of working autonomously in ambiguity and across complex global environments.
There is a requirement for this role to be based in our Cheltenham office(s) 2 -3 days per week.
Your Responsibilities
* Shape, refine and mature PMO processes, methods, standards and tools across Steam IS, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment to best practice
* Ensure transparent, accurate and timely portfolio reporting, including dashboards, KPIs and status packs, enabling effective decision making at senior levels
* Drive improvements in reporting and planning tooling, enhancing data quality, efficiency and insight
* Monitor and support RAID management, ensuring risks, issues and dependencies are captured, assessed, escalated and mitigated consistently
* Support governance forums, including quality gates, steering committees and assurance reviews, ensuring documentation and data readiness
* Provide guidance and champion governance, planning, delivery controls and reporting expectations
* Maintain high‑quality portfolio data, ensuring consistent lifecycle management and adherence to Steam IS delivery standards
* Facilitate communication and alignment across delivery teams, ensuring visibility of priorities, dependencies, decisions and wider impacts
* Support capability uplift across PMO and project teams, including coaching, tools onboarding and promoting consistent standards
* Work with third‑party suppliers to ensure documentation, reporting inputs, RAID information and delivery outputs meet expected standards
* Prepare and coordinate audit and assurance evidence, ensuring high levels of readiness and compliance for internal and external reviews
* Ensure a high performing PMO team across a PMO Analyst, Project Managers and Portfolio Lead – ensuring clear objectives are in place, clear and regular feedback, structured development and progression plans and acting as a first line escalation for any blockers to team delivery
Requirements
* Extensive PMO leadership experience operating in complex, multi‑programme environments
* Proven track record shaping and maturing PMO capabilities at function level
* Experience influencing senior stakeholders and executives in global matrix structures
* Strong background in ERP / Digital / Transformation programme governance
* Expertise in portfolio governance, planning assurance, risk & controls and resource management
* Significant experience managing multi‑disciplinary teams and third‑party suppliers
* Mastery of portfolio and PMO tools (MS Office suite, MS Project, Power BI etc)
The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi‑national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
Benefits
You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.
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