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Make a Home at Taylor Wimpey At Taylor Wimpey, we don’t just build houses; we build futures. Not just for the people who live in our homes, but for our own people too. When we bring our collective skills together, we make amazing things happen - for ourselves, for each other and for our customers. There are incredible opportunities on your doorstep, and we want you to discover them all. 

With 22 regional offices across the UK and operations in Spain, we bring our vision to life locally. Here, you’ll be given the tools to develop your skills and the freedom to explore new avenues. Share your ideas, experience a no-blame culture, and shape your work around your life.

Every single one of us plays a vital role in bringing to life incredible places and spaces, where anyone can thrive. We believe in making a positive difference to our planet, as well as to people. 

Home to work that matters, and you can be a part of it.

Job summary/Purpose

This is a lead role within Taylor Wimpey IT, responsible for establishing and maintaining a PMO and ensuring delivery of agreed outcomes from projects aligned with the company’s overall strategic objectives.
As a PMO Lead you will play a key role in establishing an effective and efficient  PMO and managing the change portfolio controls and processes, including monitoring and reporting on progress against the portfolio plan, long range planning, capacity, financial and resource planning.
This role will provide support to Project Managers in scoping, planning, executing, and monitoring their project to keep projects on schedule, within scope, and to budget. 
Leverage your deep understanding of project management methodologies and tools to establish good practices within the PMO to establish project management standards.
This role will also support the development and maintenance of portfolio view of projects – plans, RAID, budgets, etc.

Primary Responsibilities

  Project Management Office:

Development and maintenance of portfolio view of projects and portfolio reporting to inform senior management of the overall health and status of change.
Ensuring all projects and programmes follow and adhere to governance and reporting processes and procedures.
Leverage a deep understanding of project management methodologies and tools to establish best practices within the PMO.
Providing best-in-class resources, guidance and governance to project managers and teams, ensuring they have the necessary support to meet the needs of PMO and delivery.
Ensuring all suppliers and those involved in delivery are providing the required governance and information to enable monitoring and reporting at portfolio level.
Develop and implement PMO processes within the organisation, define goals and objectives, and develop a plan to achieve them.
Providing advice, guidance and insights to Business Partners & Business  to inform Business Case development & enable effective prioritisation Portfolio Implementation & Management:

Supporting with development and execution of project plans, including scope, timelines, and budgets.
Using visual techniques for project tracking and reporting.
Tracking activities against the project schedule, managing stakeholder involvement as appropriate.
Agreeing constraints of cost, timescales, quality and scope with the Project Management team.
Reviewing experiences and lessons learned from current and previous projects.
Identify opportunities for PMO continuous improvements and implement changes.
Helping with post-implementation review evaluating project success criteria, including client satisfaction.
Provide support to project managers and teams, implementing policies, methodology, tools and templates for managing projects within the organisation to support successful delivery.  

Portfolio Monitoring:

Maintain the portfolio delivery lifecycle, aligning it with the company's strategic objectives.
Monitoring projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress and quality, adherence to budget, managing RAID and overall portfolio health against a set criterion.
Monitoring compliance of activities with audit and information risk policies.
Supporting in the process to assess gaps and develop action plans to address these gaps.
Monitoring financial delivery and issue management processes, escalating issues and variances to budgets where necessary.
Supporting in analysis of financial reports, trends to identify opportunities and resolve issues.  

Risk & Issues Mitigation:

Supporting in proactively identifying and mitigating risks that would otherwise impact successful delivery of projects within schedule, resource or scope constraints.
Applying change control and risk management processes.
Providing inputs for action plans to mitigate risk, when applicable.  

Compliance with IT Governance:  Activities may include — but are not limited to:

Operating the system of rules, practices, and processes by which our organisation makes decisions, manages stakeholders’ relationships, and identifies legitimate authority.
Operating strategic and operational frameworks, policies, decision-making, business processes and plans to meet stakeholder requirements.
Contributing specialist knowledge to governance processes, reviews and developments ensuring these are implemented.
Operating in-line with our new service provider and supplier ecosystem contracts.
Leveraging our new Service Provider supplier ecosystem to deliver Taylor Wimpey’s demands.  

Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements

•    2 to 4 years of PMO or Project Management experience.
•    Experience of setting up or establishing a PMO function
•    Experience of building PMO reporting, monitoring or risks, resources and process adherence reporting to Programme Boards, steering groups and Exco
•    Experience with projects in multiple technologies, functions (e.g. transaction management, risk management etc.) and industries.
•    Proactive, tenacious, inquisitive, organized, solution and delivery orientated mindset with an eye for details and solving problems.
•     Analytical and proficient in the use of multiple data analytics tools to produce required reporting.  Advanced excel skills.
•    Knowledge of various software development methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall. 
•    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.  Ability to influence and negotiate to ensure governance standards are met.  Ability to engage with and communicate to staff at all levels of the organization.
•    Knowledge of systems and applications for recording and reporting Portfolio data, such as DevOps, Jira, MS Project etc.

What we offer at Taylor Wimpey

At Taylor Wimpey, we are committed to enabling you to make a home with us. Our work is not just about building homes; it's about doing work that matters, making a positive impact on the lives of our customers and the communities we serve.

We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions.  We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover.  Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture, we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home.    

We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work.

If you want to do work that matters and build a career that lasts, make a home at Taylor Wimpey. 

Inclusivity Statement

As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.

Internal Applicants: Please inform your line manager if you wish to apply for this role

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