Hiscox

PMO Manager – Strategy and Value Management

Hiscox

full-time

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Location: 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Align portfolio initiatives with overall strategy and value objectives to maximise impact
  • Evaluate and prioritise projects based on strategic fit, potential value delivery, and capacity
  • Own and manage the front-door submission and prioritisation process
  • Track, measure, and optimise portfolio value realisation, working with Finance FP&A
  • Provide insightful analysis and recommendations to support strategic planning cycles and investment decisions
  • Ensure consistent governance, controls, and transparent reporting across all programmes
  • Develop and maintain portfolio artefacts such as plans, RAID logs, dashboards, and KPIs
  • Ensure adherence to delivery frameworks, methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid), and quality standards
  • Act as a key liaison between programme leadership, delivery teams, and senior stakeholders
  • Prepare and present high-quality reports and updates for steering committees and executive boards
  • Support resource planning, capacity management, and budget oversight
  • Monitor financial performance with Finance FP&A teams
  • Identify, assess, and manage risks and issues at the portfolio level
  • Drive continuous improvement in PMO processes, tools, and templates
  • Champion a culture of delivery excellence and knowledge sharing

Requirements

  • More than 5 years as a PMO Manager or Senior PMO Analyst in large-scale, complex programmes
  • Strong understanding of programme governance, portfolio management, project management best practice and delivery methodologies
  • Experience with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
  • Proven experience and understanding of software delivery lifecycle
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams and working in matrix environments
  • Exposure to distributed teams and relationship building with stakeholders
  • Proficiency in MS Project (or other project tools), JIRA, Confluence, Power BI, PowerPoint and Excel
  • Be creative, proactive, logical and innovative
  • Be highly results driven, with energy and determination
  • Proficiency in MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Word and similar tools