Head of PMO

What Youll Bring:

Were looking for a Head of PMO to join our growing team.

The Head of PMO is responsible for overseeing the strategic alignment governance and of the UK business portfolio of projects and programmes. This role ensures the administration and control of delivery frameworks enabling delivery teams to manage change consistently and achieve expected business outcomes. The role involves aligning projects with the overall business strategy and financial plan managing the PMO team and driving efficiencies consistency and improved maturity in project delivery.

Day to Day Youll Be:

• Define and own the Portfolio Delivery Lifecycle (PDLC) and ensure compliance with corporate governance requirements across all projects.
• Define implement and ensure adherence to the Change Framework Policy at the enterprise level.
• Manage enterprise governance forums within delivery lifecycles including Csuite stakeholders to ensure effective decisionmaking on project undertakings and funding.
• Develop and deploy standards methods and tools for project management to ensure robust design planning and .
• Monitor portfolio health and performance providing regular updates to senior leadership. Communicate portfolio status risks issues and recommendations clearly to stakeholders.
• Lead the prioritisation of the enterprise portfolio ensuring strategic alignment financial control and feasibility.
• Design and implement portfoliolevel reporting and key management information.
• Ensure internal and external compliance standards are understood and demonstrated to an auditable level embedding requirements into project processes.
• Lead and mentor the UK PMO team fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Provide programme and project managers with guidance on appropriate project governance

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Outstanding influencing skills with the ability to communicate appropriately and credibly at all levels across the organisation including senior management executive and corporate leadership.
• Proven ability to define and articulate a comprehensive and actionable programme of work resolving complex interdependencies across multiple teams and systems.
• Understanding and experience of PMO structures in large organisations
• Background in a technology discipline understanding different project types their specific challenges and how to address them effectively.
• Methodical thorough diligent with excellent organisational skills. Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of the markets in which TransUnion operates.
• Ability to use standard Microsoft products (Excel Word PowerPoint SharePoint) and Project Management tooling such as Smartsheet/Jira.
• Proven ability to manage diverse change programmes in a matrix management environment.
• Experience of full project delivery lifecycle with knowledge of multiple delivery methodologies across development and technical delivery disciplines.
• Substantial PMO experience operating at a leadership level.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Relevant degree levelqualification

Impact Youll Make:

Whats In It For you
At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly forward thinking global business.
As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:

• 26 days annual leave bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care a variety of physical mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

TransUnion a place to grow:
If theres something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you cant quite tick off dont let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.
We know imposter syndrome is real lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together

Flexibility at TU:
We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their daytoday lives with their work. This is why weve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time dont let this stop you from applying. Let us know if youre looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.