PMO Lead

Overview

PMO Lead - Contract Re-Award. The PMO Lead is responsible for providing robust programme control, evidencing confidence, and decision visibility across the contract re-award programme. The role ensures delivery discipline, integrated planning and early risk identification, enabling PD and SLT to take timely, informed decisions in a highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain integrated programme plan, ensuring alignment across evidencing, in-flight change, dependencies, and approvals.
• Establish and run effective RAID, actions and decision management, surfacing issues early with clear impact and options.
• Provide single version, audit-ready reporting to support SLT governance, assurance and re-award confidence.
• Enforce delivery discipline and minimum control standards across Programme and Project Managers and workstreams.
• Track evidencing status, confidence and recovery actions against critical milestones.
• Support workforce prioritisation, capacity visibility, and resourcing decisions.
• Act as trusted delivery control partner to PD.
• Happy to be in a hands on PMO role.

Your transferable skills and experience

• Key Interfaces
• PD (delivery authority and escalation)
• Programme Managers and delivery leads
• Commercial, Finance, Assurance & Legal stakeholders

Required experience

• Proven PMO leadership experience in regulated environments
• Experience supporting contract re-award, bid assurance or evidencing led programmes
• Strong understanding of programme controls, governance and delivery risk in MSP / SI contexts
• Confident operating at pace under senior stakeholder scrutiny

Notes

Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks.

LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work. For security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.

Award Winning LA International has secured notable recognitions, including recent entries in the Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade.