Location: On site / London EC1N 2TD, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Project & Change Management | Project Management
Salary: Competitive Salary
Key Responsibilities
- Provide senior-level oversight of resource planning and capacity management, ensuring accurate forecasting, reporting and alignment with client commitments (including Chairing of the weekly Resourcing Forum)
- Support portfolio-wide quality assurance, ensuring key deliverables meet agreed standards and reflect Sagacity’s brand and values (including leading regular PMO audits to assess project health)
- Produce and govern monthly portfolio, performance and governance reporting for Senior Leadership and Board
- Chair senior delivery and operations forums, providing visibility of the delivery pipeline, change control, risks, issues and upcoming resource demand
- Enforcement of Sagacity’s standards and compliance with delivery frameworks / processes
- Where required, oversee the planning, governance and delivery of internal strategic change initiatives, ensuring alignment to Sagacity’s delivery roadmap and internal approval processes
- Own the governance and reporting of client feedback, ensuring insights drive measurable improvements in delivery performance and ways of working
- Define, implement and continuously improve operational processes and controls to maximise efficiency, consistency and scalability across Sagacity
- Own and continuously enhance Sagacity’s PMO framework, including project tools, standards and templates, ensuring consistent and high-quality delivery across all client projects
- Provide coaching, guidance and leadership to project and delivery teams to embed best practice, strengthen capability and ensure compliance with PMO standards
- Own the interface between the PMO and Finance, ensuring project financial data is accurate, consistent and actionable
- Own the interface between PMO and Sales, ensuring sales pipeline insight is utilised for portfolio planning, resourcing forecasts and proactive risk identification, enabling smooth mobilisation and delivery of client projects
- Proven experience operating at Senior PMO / Portfolio Management level
- Strong expertise in portfolio, programme and project governance, including standards, controls, reporting and assurance at Senior Leader and Board level
- Experience of resource and capacity planning in a chargeable environment, including utilisation forecasting and demand management
- Proven ability to work closely with Sales to interpret pipeline data and translate opportunities into delivery and resourcing plans
- Proven ability to work closely with Finance on budget management, forecasting, margin control and commercial performance reporting
- Strong knowledge of PMO frameworks, with the ability to design, implement and continuously improve them
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with confidence operating at a senior level
- Experience in a scaling / high growth environment
- Formal qualifications or accreditation in PMO, portfolio, programme or project management (e.g. MSP, PRINCE2, Agile)
- Experience implementing or optimising PMO tooling (e.g. PPM systems, resource management tools, reporting platforms)
- Experience of coaching and developing delivery teams and embedding best practice across an organisation
Personal Profile:
- Delivery-focused with a track record of managing complex portfolios and ensuring high-quality outcomes
- Quick to learn, adapt and implement new frameworks, processes, and tools
- Exceptional communicator and influencer, skilled at engaging senior leaders, stakeholders, and teams
- Collaborative approach, promoting high performance and consistency across projects
- Detail-oriented and curious, applying and monitoring robust quality standards, governance, and controls
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