PMO Services Manager

For Linklaters Global Solutions Warsaw we are currently recruiting for the PMO Services Manager role.

Your role

We are looking for a PMO Services Manager to join Linklaters Global Solutions (LGS) as part of our Business Change team.

You will be responsible for managing the delivery of PMO services to support the firms project portfolio and leading a high-performing PMO team. This will include ensuring alignment to standard processes application of best practice tools and templates management reporting assurance and facilitating portfolio governance.

You will work closely with the Head of Portfolio and Programme Management Programme Leads Project and Programme Managers other PMO professionals Finance Technology & Data and wider key senior management stakeholders.

As a PMO Services Manager you will:

• Establish and mature our shared services PMO model defining services key performance indicators (KPIs) and supporting processes and operating procedures.

• Support the evaluation classification and prioritisation of new project demand.

• Develop and manage portfolio-level documentation for example portfolio delivery plans resource plans benefits plans and risk and issue logs.

• Facilitate portfolio governance meetings and manage the project portfolio budget.

• Enable effective information management and knowledge management practises. Ensure that portfolio records and underlying project delivery information is accessible and well-organised and facilitate knowledge-sharing.

• Assure delivery of the project portfolio against our project delivery framework and other recognised industry good practice providing guidance to project delivery teams.

• Identify opportunities and oversee delivery of ad-hoc analysis as required for example relating to project portfolio performance and in support of other Linklaters business processes (e.g. business planning financial year-end).

• Drive continuous improvement of our PMO services and project delivery practises ensuring that these are successfully embedded within the team.

• Manage a high-performing PMO team supporting resource assignment and developing plans to meeting team and individual development needs.

In addition the role-holder will be expected to play a leading role in our community of PMO professionals and help drive the broader development of our PMO capabilities in the firm.

Your experience

• Five or more years experience working in a portfolio PMO role and managing a team coupled with broader experience in related project portfolio or programme PMO roles.

• Previous experience of working in legal services or professional services environment and specifically in a shared services PMO organisation would be advantageous.

• Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite including Word Excel PowerPoint ideally with experience using dedicated project portfolio management project or task management tools.

• A recognised PMO or project management qualification (e.g. P3O certification PRINCE 2 Practitioner or APM equivalent) and evidence of continuing professional development.

• Excellent attention to detail. Confident with numbers the analysis of data and financial management information.

• Able to communicate effectively at all levels - clearly and succinctly conveying ideas and options.

• Embraces accountability and sets an example to others; proactive and action-oriented driving continuous improvement to ways of working.

• Inclusive aware of the needs of and supportive of all team members.

Location

• Warsaw (hybrid model min. 2 days per week at the office)

Type of contract

• Contract of employment

Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution youll be making to our success. These include:

• Private medical care

• Free in-house fitness centre

• Life insurance

• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel

• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card

• Wide range of training opportunities

Linklaters and the Team

Linklaters are a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative efficient agile entrepreneurial and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives but by fostering a positive supportive fair and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team with a common mind-set.

We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis and we will be happy to discuss this further.

What sets us apart

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business

• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social environment and governance responsibility commitments

• We celebrate diversity equity and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work

• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to

• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations

• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business

• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust respect and appreciation

• We support the health and wellbeing of our people providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed

• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover coach and develop the talents of others

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. As such the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.