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We are hiring for a Head of IT Portfolio Management Office to join us permanently.
Reporting to the Global Head of IT Governance, you will define and manage the governance, plans and structure of the IT Portfolio Management Office to ensure portfolios, programmes and projects deliver the objectives of the business.
You will also ensure current and future projects and enhancements are delivered in line with best practice project management techniques appropriate to the type and scale of projects or technology enhancements and deliver the identified business benefit.
You will be in-charge of setting and monitoring standards for IT project delivery, running the IT demand management processes, including logging demand, prioritisation demand against business criteria and allocating IT resources to projects and programmes. You will also be coordinating and collaborating with the Enterprise PMO to ensure alignment of IT and corporate project standards and processes.
This role is majority home working with the requirement to go to the office when the business needs.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
One of your main responsibilities will be taking full responsibility to initiate, influence, review and maintain project and programme management support strategy, generic standards, processes, procedures, tools and techniques
You will:-
Conduct and provide generic and specific support for the development and content of business cases, project plans, and review and audit reports; Initiate project performance investigations and recommend changes where performance is found to be unsatisfactory
Be responsible for the setting up of individual project processes and procedures that in depth project and programme management advice and assistance is available to strategic projects
Involve in establishing the Configuration Management System in use in the organisation and manage it for the project or programme
Define standards for key project and programme controls, including planning, risk and issue management, quality control and progress reporting; Define approach to delivering project health checks to ensure compliance with best practice and specified controls, including project status, scope, plans, financial controls, risks, issues and quality
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
Demonstrate clear leadership, with strong and detailed project/programme portfolio management experience in a complex business and programme development life-cycle knowledge along with resolving typical problems associated with the implementation of IT projects and programmes
In-depth practical knowledge of project or programme management methodologies, tools and techniques with in depth knowledge of at least one methodology
Strong planning, communication and presentation skills, the capability to listen and influence, and is proficient in project quality management
Promote compliance with relevant legislation and the need for services, products and working practices to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with diverse abilities
Take a leading role in promoting security throughout own area of responsibilities and collectively in the organisation
Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business.
BSI is conducting face-to-face interviews where appropriate and possible. If you are invited to a face-to-face interview but feel more comfortable with conducting the interview virtually, please speak to a member of our recruitment team.