PMO Lead

Location: Aberdeen - 2 to 3 days a week onsite | Salary: -557.42 per day (Inside IR35) | Contract: ends December 2026 - interim

We are looking for an experienced PMO Lead to join our client''s organisation during an exciting period of set-up and mobilisation.

Reporting to the Head of Programme Delivery, you will combine hands-on project delivery with PMO leadership and programme governance. You will lead projects and complex workstreams while helping establish proportionate delivery standards, governance, reporting and controls across the organisation.

• Lead projects and complex workstreams from initiation to closure.
• Support business leads and PMO managers to establish effective projects and programmes.
• Develop and embed delivery standards, templates, controls and ways of working.
• Manage risks, issues, dependencies, plans and benefits.
• Design and improve programme and portfolio governance and reporting.
• Provide clear, actionable insight to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-functional input from finance, commercial and other teams.

About you

You will have:

• Proven experience delivering complex or high-risk projects/programmes within time, cost and quality constraints.
• Strong project lifecycle, risk and issue management experience.
• Experience developing governance, controls and PMO approaches in changing environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including engagement with senior leaders.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach and the ability to work autonomously amid ambiguity and competing priorities.
• A recognised project/programme management qualification, or be working towards one, such as PRINCE2, MSP, Agile PM, APM Practitioner or ChPP.

This is an excellent opportunity to help shape delivery capability within a new and developing organisation while making a direct contribution to successful project and programme outcomes.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.