PMO Senior Consultant
M4 Corridor (within 50 mins Junction 17)
Negotiable Package – Hybrid working.
This PMO role within a growing SME business within Defence, IT and Cyber fields, will combine operational coordination with assured delivery alignment, and people development – so that not only that work is fully aligned and completed, but that the business as a whole continues to grow in capacity, capability, and effectiveness.
Key Functions & Deliverables - Coordination, Synchronisation, Capacity Building
1. Cross-Project Coordination
- Maintains a single view of all active client engagements.
- Aligns timelines, milestones, and deliverables.
- Identifies clashes and sequencing risks early.
- Acts as the coordination hub between project leads.
2. Resource Scheduling & Utilisation
- Allocates consultants across concurrent projects.
- Balances utilisation and avoids over/under-allocation.
- Adjusts assignments dynamically as priorities shift.
3. Delivery Synchronisation
- Aligns interdependent workstreams.
- Coordinates shared SMEs across projects.
- Manages handoffs and ensures continuity.
4. Governance & Standards
- Provides simple, consistent ways of working.
- Supplies practical templates and tools.
- Applies proportionate structure (informed by Project Management Institute practices where useful).
5. Centralised Reporting & Visibility
- Delivers clear oversight across all engagements.
- Tracks progress, risks, and utilisation.
- Enables timely decision-making by leadership.
6. Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
- Identifies and manages cross-project risks.
- Tracks dependencies and resolves conflicts.
- Focuses on fast, pragmatic issue resolution.
7. Client Delivery Assurance
- Supports consistent, high-quality delivery.
- Provides guidance to project leads where needed.
- Intervenes early on at-risk engagements.
8. Financial & Commercial Tracking
- Monitors budgets, cash outflow rates, and margins.
- Tracks utilisation and revenue performance.
- Flags scope and commercial risks.
9. Knowledge Sharing & Reuse
- Promotes reuse of assets, templates, and approaches.
- Shares lessons learned across engagements.
- Improves efficiency and consistency.
10. Capacity Building
- Embeds good project management practices within day-to-day delivery.
- Supports consultants in structuring and executing client work.
- Reinforces consistency in approach across engagements.
- Contributes to a more scalable and self-sufficient delivery model.
- Supports business growth.
11. Training & Development
- Provides targeted, and informal, training on core consulting and project delivery skills.
- Delivers practical sessions (e.g. planning, stakeholder management, risk handling).
- Identifies development needs across the team.
- Supports continuous professional development aligned to business needs.
12. Line/Team Management
- Provides line management for junior consultants.
- Sets objectives, monitors performance, and supports progression.
- Conducts regular feedback and performance reviews.
- Supports wellbeing, engagement, and retention.
- Helps shape career pathways within the consultancy.
13. Software and Workflow Tools
- Effective familiarity with all regular office software products and specific project management toolsets (e.g. Jira, Microsoft Project).
- Ensures consistent and coherent usage and visibility across the business.
Please express an initial interest through the provision of either an up-to-date CV or the link to an appropriately extensive and current Linked In profile.
You must either currently hold UK security clearance to SC level, or be a UK passport holder and have been resident in UK for the last 5 continuous years to be able to gain (or regain) UK SC clearance.