PMO Lead

About the job you’re considering

We’re looking for an experienced PMO Lead to shape and run an effective PMO function across a complex programme, portfolio, or managed service environment. You’ll provide governance and control, turn data into actionable insight, and lead a high-performing PMO team—partnering with senior stakeholders to drive predictable delivery and continuous improvement.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: 
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

•    Portfolio control: Own the operational PMO view for the area (programme, portfolio, or service line), monitoring demand, delivery positions, dependencies and key milestones.

•    Financial governance: Lead the forecasting and reporting cycle (budget, actuals, variance), partner with Finance to maintain a single source of truth, and provide senior leaders with timely, actionable insight (early warnings and mitigations), including support for month-end close, commercial alignment, and audit/compliance readiness.

•    Team leadership: Lead, coach and develop a team of PMO professionals, ensuring clear roles, effective capacity planning and a positive team culture.

•    Insightful reporting: Produce clear, accurate and timely reporting (including RAID and delivery dashboards), highlighting trends, risks and required decisions.

•    PMO standards & tooling: Act as an escalation point for PMO tooling and ways of working—setting standards, improving adoption, and coaching colleagues.

•    Champion continuous improvement & AI-driven efficiency: embed smarter PMO standards and automation/AI to streamline workflows, improve data quality, accelerate reporting and forecasting, and increase risk visibility—piloting modern tooling, sharing best practice, and coaching adoption of new ways of working safely and consistently.

Your skills and experience

•    PMO leadership experience: Proven track record leading a PMO in a complex delivery, change, or operational environment.

•    Financial acumen: Experience supporting budgets and forecasts, maintaining cost trackers, and coordinating month-end activity (actuals, accruals and commentary). Comfortable partnering with Finance and delivery leads to monitor run rate, revenue and margin, manage purchase orders/invoicing where relevant, and understand why these measures matter—helping the business make informed decisions on performance, investment, prioritisation and risk.

•    Governance & assurance: Strong governance and control capability, with experience implementing standards and assurance across teams.

•    Planning & reporting: Excellent planning and reporting skills, producing executive-ready dashboards and actionable insight (including RAID management).

•    PMO toolsets: Confidence with PMO toolsets and reporting platforms, and the ability to coach others in their effective use.

•    Stakeholder management: Strong influencing skills, including managing escalations and driving timely decisions.

•    People leadership: Demonstrable leadership—building capability, managing capacity and creating a positive, inclusive culture.

Nice to have:

•    Tooling SME / product ownership: Experience as a PMO tooling SME or product owner, including requirements definition and change/adoption.

•    Transformation experience: Experience in large-scale transformation programmes or enterprise IT/service delivery environments.

How you’ll work:

•    Governance-focused: You set clear standards, ensure adherence, and use insight to improve performance.

•    Commercially aware: You understand cost, value and risk trade-offs and support sound decision-making.

•    People-led: You develop others through coaching, feedback and smart delegation.

•    Clear communicator: You tailor messages to your audience, handle conflict professionally, and build alignment.

•    Improvement mindset: You simplify, standardise and drive adoption of better ways of working.

•    Accountable: You take ownership, escalate early, and maintain high standards of accuracy and professionalism.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks. 
There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.
There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation.  At Capgemini we offer range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called Applaud. 

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance.  Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people.  All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. 

You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.5 billion. 
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