Governance and Resource Lead
Salary: c. £60,000 per annum
Hours: 35 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Location: Hybrid (Office: West Bromwich)
The West Bromwich Building Society offers an opportunity for an experienced Governance and Resource Lead responsible for establishing, maintaining and enhancing PMO governance frameworks and resource management practices. The role ensures projects and programmes in the portfolio are delivered in line with our framework while optimally allocating and utilising resources across change portfolios.
What the role will look like:
- Lead resource planning and allocation across projects and programmes within the portfolio
- Maintain a centralised view of allocation across the division (capacity, demand and utilisation)
- Work with Project Managers and Team Leads/Resource Managers to resolve resource conflicts
- Forecast future needs to support workforce planning and flag areas of risk for mitigation and provide trend analysis reporting
- Support administration, and consistent application, of our current Change Management Framework across all portfolios of work
- Drive continuous improvement by highlighting potential areas of efficiency or improvement to the existing framework
- Monitor compliance with governance policies and escalate deviation to Head of PMO
- Support Head of PMO and Portfolio Manager with portfolio planning and prioritisation
- Track portfolio performance, inclusive of risks, issues, dependencies and benefits and provide actionable insights to the Head of PMO and key stakeholders
For more information about the role, please refer to the job description attached at the bottom of the advert
What you will bring to the role:
- Strong experience in PMO governance and resource management
- SME in core PMO offerings (RAID, planning etc.) with proven experience in Finance and Benefits management
- Deep understanding of project and programme methodologies and ways of working
- Proven ability to design and implement governance frameworks and processes
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong stakeholder management, interpersonal and communication skills
Desirable Qualifications
- Professional certifications (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, Agile certifications)
- Experience of working within a centralised PMO or enterprise portfolio environment
What’s in it for you:
- Development opportunities and promotion from within wherever possible
- Holiday starting at 175 hours (25 days) plus bank holidays that grow with your time with us and the opportunity to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday each year
- 2 paid volunteering days a year
- Living Pensions with pension scheme starting at 5% contribution from you and 7% from us, matching further contributions up to 10.6%
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave with paid fertility treatment, neonatal and pregnancy loss leave
- Life assurance provided at 4 times your salary
- Yearly performance related pay scheme and pay review
- Private medical insurance discounted when your time with us grows, with the option to include family members
- Salary Sacrifice Electric/Hybrid Car Scheme
- A Perkbox account – 24/7 access to perks, benefits, discounts, wellbeing tools and more
- Flexible working options, wellbeing support and a whole heap of warm West Bromness
We value a diverse range of skills and experiences here at the West Brom. Even if you don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply.
We are a Disability Confident Leader and encourage disabled applicants and all from diverse backgrounds to apply. We will adjust our recruitment journey and offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet what we’re looking for. If you need support with applying to one of our roles, get in touch at careers@westbrom.co.uk.
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