PMO Lead

About The Role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a fantastic opportunity for a PMO Lead to join our team on the Highways A57 Mottram Moor Link Road Scheme, this role will be based within the Manchester / Longdendale area

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage, and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management, and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable, and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

What you'll be doing

Strategic PMO Leadership & Programme Integration

• Lead and continuously improve the programme management framework, ensuring consistent processes across cost, schedule, scope, project documentation management, risk and reporting.
• Incorporate Lean Thinking and Business improvement opportunities to remove waste and improve performance through positive challenge.
• Integrate data and insights across P6, Power BI, Oracle and other systems to create a single source of truth for programme performance.
• Facilitate alignment between project teams, programme functions, commercial teams, executive stakeholders and the PMO.
• Work closely and collaborate effectively with the client and delivery Teams to strengthen end-to- end programme cohesion, delivery visibility and unified delivery governance.

Programme Controls, Reporting & Performance Insight

• Provide oversight and governance of programme performance reporting, ensuring clear visibility of KPIs, milestones, schedule health, risk insights and cost forecasts.
• Produce effective integrated reporting packs and dashboards (Power BI, executive dashboards, integrated programme performance reports) that support decision-making across the portfolio.
• Maintain robust governance and control frameworks to ensure the accuracy, completeness and quality of schedule, financial and risk data across the portfolio.

Commercial & Resource Integration

• Provide oversight of contract obligations, ensuring risks and commitments are effectively controlled.
• Establish strong integration between commercial, planning, PMO, reporting and resource management functions, ensuring robust resource forecasting, allocation and utilisation.
• Ensure that programmes are consistently, sufficiently and appropriately resourced, and that financial decisions are fully informed by commercial, schedule and resource impacts

Leadership, Coaching & Organisational Development

• Lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of performance, inclusion, coaching and continuous improvement.
• Build capability across PMO, planning, controls and reporting functions. Support transformational change initiatives, helping teams adopt new processes, systems and behaviours.
• Act as the integration point between project delivery teams, programme leadership and strategic decision-makers.

Who we're looking for

Specific Divisional/SBU Requirements

• Proven experience in programme management or PMO Leadership within complex capital programmes. Experience in budget management, resource forecasting, and programme level financial governance. Strong knowledge of NEC contracts and their application to project controls.
• Familiarity with major infrastructure project delivery and assurance frameworks.
• Demonstrates a track record of successfully leading and managing teams to achieve strategic outcomes and drive organisational success.
• Sector-specific experience
• Technical proficiency in PMO/project controls tools: Experience with programme management systems such as Primavera P6, Power BI, Oracle and Microsoft Suite
• Professional accreditation: Relevant professional qualification or chartered status (e.g., PM, PMO, programme management) is highly desirable
• Significant practical experience: Minimum 10–15 years’ experience (depending on seniority), or an equivalent blend of education and experience to successfully perform the essential duties of the job.

The following qualities/experience are desirable;

• Has an ability to gather, analyse and evaluate facts;
• Pays attention to detail and sees things through to completion;
• Can deliver reports orally and written in an objective and persuasive manner;
• Has good interpersonal and communication skills;
• Is a self-starter who manages their own time and seeks to add value to their function.
• Is able to work within a multi-discipline team;
• Able to command respect across the business and within the Function;
• Can demonstrate initiative and resilience.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About Us

Balfour Beatty’s Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways.

We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background.

To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: How to sign up to the Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com