IT PMO Portfolio and Resource Planner

Location: Manchester / Dartford UK based but global scope

Are you a PMO professional who can take a pro-active approach in seeking and driving forward key activities that underpin successful delivery in IT?

Can you work with Project Managers to ensure pipeline, live project planning and resource data is up to date and relevant? Utilise your ability to review project status reports and prepare monthly project reviews. Can you help to resolve issues like date changes?. Can you collate and input into regular and ad-hoc reports using ServiceNow and Excel? Then this is the role for you

The role assists the portfolio team members in managing and reporting in Global IT Projects via SPM and PPM.  This will also include training on the project process and SPM/PPM systems for new starters.

Other Duties include:

Support the portfolio team in moving away from excel resource planning and the adoption of ServiceNow tools. Work with project stakeholders to ensure accurate planning and resource data. Work with demand and project managers to ensure benefits data is accurate and relevant. Undertake project closure reviews and adopt a continuous improvement approach to lessons learned.

Essential skills required:

ServiceNow, Office 365 i.e Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, OneNote, Confluence Project management qualifications Beneficial but not required, Prince 2, Agile, P3O, PMP or equivalent qualification

Desired experience

An understanding or working history within a project management environment. Hands-on experienced in working with demand and project managers to plan a portfolio of projects, and support resolution of issues. An understanding of project change control and the importance of maintaining a project baseline. An understanding of portfolio benefits planning and reporting A basic understanding of the functions within IT would be desirable. Experience of successfully managing multiple stakeholders with conflicting demands and priorities.

If you have a keen interest in IT and the benefits it provides then apply today. In return you will get job satisfaction through a variety of IT environments and a forward thinking construction company.

About us:

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com

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