Enterprise PMO Lead

Location: London/Home or Newbury/Home (Blended Working)
Benefits: Excellent basic salary plus bonus
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri

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  Blended

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

Vodafone UK Corporate functions work within the heart of our business, providing professional expertise, support and guidance across all operations, revolutionising our digital growth by always moving, always adapting, to be ready for the future.

What will you be doing?

The Strategy Execution team is accountable to the UK CEO/Board for enabling the effective and efficient execution of Vodafone UK’s (VFUK) strategy, including enterprise-wide delivery performance.

The Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) team, which will support agile and traditional methodologies, sits centrally within VFUK and is the information hub for projects and programmes. The EPMO is vital for ensuring the enterprise-wide investment roadmap is delivered in line with stakeholder expectation and maximising value to the organisation. It is also responsible for providing valuable insight to the executive leadership team to enable informed decision making. Its duties involve establishing the enterprise-wide delivery framework to enable tracking and reporting, assurance and quality control, information management, financial tracking, risk and issue tracking, change control, support, and capacity planning.

Reporting to the Senior EPMO Manager, the EPMO Lead will be responsible for ensuring effective governance is in place across the VFUK portfolio and will be responsible for escalating key risks, issues, or gaps in governance and contributing to the continuous improvement of our tools and processes. They will be responsible for delivering high standard reporting and work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to understand the delivery health of our projects and programmes.

Key Accountabilities:

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  Work with the EPMO team to ensure compliance of overarching delivery processes
• Project & Programme governance and delivery assurance
• Engage with business stakeholders and resource owners to understand capacity bottlenecks and proposed mitigation
• Provide management insight on project delivery health (risks, issues, change, etc.) at an enterprise level
• Continuously improve processes and tools to support effective delivery

Who are we looking for?

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  Highly experienced PMO and delivery management professional
• Subject Matter Expert: PMO, Project, Programme & Portfolio Management
• The credibility necessary to engage stakeholders from across the organisation
• Ability to flex between the strategic and the operational
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to influence
• High level of energy and flexibility to get things done and thrive in a fast-paced, agile, team-oriented environment

What’s in it for you?

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We’re also proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility to support individuals returning to work after a career break and our market-leading parental leave policies. We’re committed to supporting you throughout every step of your career at Vodafone.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (careers.vodafone.co.uk) under Career Support, for guidance.

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