Job TitlePMO Manager
Job Description
Reports to: Heathrow Project Execution Lead
Location: London Heathrow
Introduction to role
As a PMO Manager, reporting into the PMO Lead and Project Execution Lead, you will be responsible for planning all project activities. In a project execution environment, the PMO manager plays a pivotal role. They oversee the project portfolio, standardise processes, analyse data, and ensure alignment with business objectives. Their expertise ensures efficient project delivery, informed decision-making, and strategic alignment across the organisation.
Role Responsibilities
The PMO manager will acts as a bridge between project teams and senior leadership. They facilitate communication, ensuring that project progress, risks, and resource needs are transparently conveyed to decision-makers. By aligning projects with strategic objectives, the PMO manager guides resource allocation, monitors performance, and fosters collaboration. Their role extends beyond administrative tasks; they empower project success by providing insights, resolving bottlenecks, and promoting best practices.
Your responsibilities and activities will include:
- Schedule PMS (monthly performance report) pre-review meetings and do integrity checks
- Ensure PMS submission on time
- Take meeting minutes and actions at internal and external reviews
- Follow up the actions taken at the PMS reviews
- Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and
- Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the monthly reporting output
- Schedule finance board meeting
- Maintain finance board report
- Ensure lessons learned data base is kept updated
- Facilitate risk and issues management process
- Schedule project board meetings, log meeting minutes
- Ensure CER are correctly populated prior to board meetings
- Follow up the actions from the Project Board meetings-
- Maintain reporting calendar
- Maintain project execution RACI
- Support PMO Lead to implement effective governance and assurance processes
- Produce various reports to analyse performance data
- Support project teams to use correct tools and processes
Role Qualification and Skills
- Experience in the application of reporting, planning (ideally P6), cost estimation, risk and change management
- Experience in managing Stakeholders.
- Expert in using MS office tools (Proficiency in Excel is desirable)
- Knowledge of PowerBI
- Effective communicator, ability to work with a wide project/portfolio teams and client
- Ability to deliver to strict deadlines as required, self starter and quick thinker
- Reliable with the ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
What we offer
- 28 days of annual leave (excluding public holidays)
- Bupa Medical Cover
- YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
- A challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension with Aviva
- Achievers – Employee Recognition Platform and discount of everyday shopping!
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualifies applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
