Job Description:

Our client, a provider of high-quality long-term investment capabilities, is looking for a Project Management Office (PMO) Manager based in Edinburgh to join the Global Project Management Office (GPMO). The responsibilities include oversight of EMEA-based GPMO staff, managing the day-to-day activities, providing guidance on GPMO policies and processes, GPMO management reporting and hands-on project management.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Extensive experience in the global financial services industry, preferably asset management.
• Extensive experience in Project Management Office
• Experience in project architecture standards, blueprints, road maps.
• Experience in matrix reporting lines within global organisation.
• PMP / Prince 2 / Agile qualification and / or Lean Six Sigma qualification is desirable.
• Demonstrable experience in making sound decision and judgement in face of adversity, to resolve any roadblocks and issues.
• Self-starting, driven individual able to effectively operate in environment with competing priorities and ambiguity.

Core Responsibilities:

• Overseeing EMEA GPMO team consisting of project managers and business analysts.
• Preparing high-quality consolidated project and management reports for senior management.
• Developing new, and improving existing, GPMO policies and processes.
• Promoting the adoption and usage of project management tools, processes, and methodologies, and making recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Continuously evaluating projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines.
• Overseeing the development of projects and ensuring that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently while upholding the company's standards.
• Accurately documenting the project's planning, execution and closure as well as documenting the project's scope, budget, and justification.
• Developing robust and achievable project plans, including management of timescales, scope, risks, and budgets.
• Tracking, managing and prioritising project activities deliverables towards agreed outcomes, and identifying and developing mitigation strategies to ensure projects remain on track.
• Tracking, managing and prioritising expenditure against budget working closely with Finance.
• Developing and managing effective stakeholder engagement plans and communication plans to ensure appropriate management of key stakeholders locally and globally.

Benefits:

• A highly competitive salary
• Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 14687

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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