Project Management Office (PMO) Manager

Job Description:

SECURITY CLEARANCE : Eligibility to gain UK SC Security Clearance OR You will be subject to a BPSS check (including a criminal record check)

TRAVEL REQUIRED : UK travel - several times a month, for a couple of days at a time

LOCATION : Portsmouth OR Stevenage (60% of your working week must be office based)

TYPE : Full time

What's In It For You

• Financial Reward: Competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, discounted shopping and much more
• Work / Life Balance: 37 hour week, flexible working around core hours and Friday afternoons off, hybrid working, up to 2 additional days per month as TOIL
• Personal Development: Personalised development plan, Airbus Leadership University and unlimited access to 10,000+ E-learning courses, internal mobility including international opportunities
• Health & Wellbeing : Wellbeing benefits (including 24/7 online GP and mental health support), Employee Assistance Programme, discounted family health / dental insurance / eye tests, cycle-to-work scheme, on-site canteen and coffee shop, lunchtime pilates

Family and Caregiving : Life assurance, enhanced pay for parental leave (23 weeks at 100% pay), adoption / shared parental / caregiving leave

Inclusive Environment : Wellbeing room, Multi-faith room, Employee Representative Groups (Gender, LGBTQ+, International, Generational, Disability, Social & Cultural Diversity, Neurodiversity)

Enjoy championing PMO? Looking for a role where you can make a genuine difference? Be a key part of the culture change and shape the PMO process? Want to learn about satellites, Rovers, Scientific and Interplanetary missions? Then we might have the role for you!

About The Role

Due to future projects and work load, we are looking for a PMO Manager to work alongside Project Managers, ensuring standards and operating practices are maintained across the entire project lifecycle. Reporting to the Head of PMO, you will join a small, friendly, team that looks after Earth Observation, Science and Exploration in the UK and be functionally embedded within the assigned project.

How You Will Contribute To The Team

• Is responsible for all planning, monitoring and administrative tasks which are necessary for a proper project management and execution

Supports the PM and the project's management team through the application of project management processes, methods and tools

Tracks programme progress and provide visualisation and early warning of potential issues to allow for early mitigation, anticipation and data-driven decisions

Acts as the Risks & Opportunities Manager of the project

About You

• Passionate about PMO, bringing Project Managers on the journey with you and adapting communication styles to different audiences
• Experience in managing risks and opportunities
• Experience in managing or working with a project schedules
• Understanding of Prince 2 / PMP
• Enjoys a challenge and solving problems
  
  

Not a 100% match? No worries! Airbus supports your personal growth with customised development solutions.

How We Can Support You

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need and we’ll always do our best to accommodate your request.

Please let us know if you need us to make any adjustments for the selection process - you can share this with your Talent Acquisition Partner if you are invited to interview. Examples may include (but not exclusive to) accessible facilities; auxiliary aids; room layout, etc. Any information disclosed will be treated in the strictest confidence.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Airbus UK will offer an interview to any applicant that considers themselves to have a disability or long-term condition and meets the minimum criteria of the role (as set out in the job advert). To ‘opt in’, just select the option during your application submission and our Talent Acquisition team will contact you.

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

AIRBUS Defence and Space Limited

Employment Type:

Permanent

Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Programme & Project Management

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