PMO Lead

About Us

Our teams are putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We provide services to partner clients globally via our innovative advanced robotics technology, known as the Ocado Smart Platform, this drives our highly automated, multi-million pound Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs). In our CFCs - together with the proprietary software applications - we operate a world-class online grocery business that automates the single pick of products, ready for your online delivery.

About the Role

The PMO Lead provides specialist programme and project delivery expertise to our internal and external, international and UK located projects, developing the agreed Project Management Institute (PMI) project management methodology, best practice and processes, and driving the adoption of the framework across internal/external projects. Operating within a supportive and controlling project PMO structure.
What you’ll be doing:

• Developing the agreed Project Management Methodology

• Developing best practice and agreed standardised processes, tools, templates and ways of working

• Driving adoption of our Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Delivery framework and project management methodology across internal and external projects

• Developing the agreed Project Management Methodology

• Maintaining and tracking project methodology

• Training, coaching and mentoring through a Project Management Academy

• Chairing and Facilitating Lessons learned

• Support change roll out

• Adoption of frameworks/methodologies

• Ensuring compliance/conformance to governance (Audit & Measure)

• Ensuring quality of and compliance to our project management frameworks

• Monitoring the delivery of programme-level deliverables and activities against plans, challenging progress as appropriate

• Assessing/evaluating information received from projects within the programme

• Maintaining multiple programme views for different audiences

• Compiling ad-hoc reports as required for programme management (i.e. reporting required for wider company governance forums)

• Creating, maintaining and reporting on integrated project programmes across complex large scale projects

• Regular project analysis, data and portfolio reporting

• Managing dependencies and conflicts

• Managing appropriate tracking control

• Enforcing a structured approach to project delivery within the team to realise synergies and efficiencies where possible.

About You

• Strong Analytical skills

• Competent with MS Excel, Excellent numeric, analytical and Excel skills

• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)

• Management of multiple stakeholders at any one time to support the multi faceted nature of the role

• Confidence to influence, challenge and change mindsets

• Experience in working in a project management role and office, including relevant qualifications

• Experience of working in a PMO, central planning function or governance function

• Experience in designing and development of enterprise end-to-end planning and governance processes and standards

• Experienced in all stages of the project lifecycle, e.g. planning, requirements gathering, design documentation, testing and rollout

• Expertise in using defined programme and project delivery processes consistently over time

• Flexible approach to changing priorities

• Ability to travel & site visits when required.

What do I get in return

Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. We can offer technically stretching work, a competitive salary and;

Hybrid working and flexible working patterns; Private healthcare; Car salary sacrifice and Cycle to Work schemes; A range of amazing benefits, including Free Shares and Life Assurance; 15% off your Ocado.com shopping; Company shop offering discounts of up to 70% on groceries from leading brands and major retailers; Exclusive travel, retail and leisure discounts nationwide; Incredible Head Office, complete with onsite cafe and restaurant just 20 minutes by train from Kings Cross ; A free shuttle bus from and to Hatfield Station; 22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete) ; Enhanced Pension scheme, matching employee contributions up to 7% of salary; Employee Assistance Programme

We’re in it together, we are proud of what we do, we can be even better