PMO Lead

3 year FTC

Competitive Salary

Your role:

This role is a once in a career opportunity to play a lead role on a transformational Finance Systems project. News UK is in the process of investing in and transforming our Finance Systems landscape. We will not only be moving our core ERP system to S/4 HANA, but also implementing new additional systems including those for Procurement, Contingent Workforce and various other activities.

As Programme Management Office (PMO) Lead, your role will be to establish and lead the Finance Transformation Programme’s PMO function and to deliver project controls & governance across the programme. This role will report directly to the Finance Transformation Programme Manager and will also work closely with both the Finance and Technical Leads to ensure quality delivery across the programme.

Day to day you will:

• Building and leading the Finance Transformation Programme PMO function, including:

• Develop and maintain the necessary programme delivery framework controls and templates, and ensure these are adhered to by the programme team (including the System Implementation (SI) Partner and any other 3rd parties)

• Work closely with the programme team, particularly the key workstreams and their project managers, to ensure robust plans are in place and that these are integrated into a single programme plan against which progress and status can be tracked and reported

• Take responsibility for the building and managing the programme’s document and knowledge library, ensuring that all assets are available and up to date

• Keep track of the programme budget, collecting the necessary inputs from across the programme and building this into a view suitable for reporting

• Develop and maintain weekly reporting, working closely with project managers to get the necessary inputs for accurate reporting

• Support the programme manager to develop Steering Committee reports and supporting material

• Own and manage the programme RAID log, and provide reporting and escalation on these when required. Work closely with the necessary team members to close items as soon as possible.

All colleagues will have to work together as a team, supported by leadership, to deliver this programme. This also means there may be times when everyone has to support other workstreams at peak load times.

What we’re looking for from you:

We’re looking for an experienced PMO Lead, with a track record of delivering this capability within a large scale and complex programme, including:

• Experience of successfully building and running a similar PMO function or team in a large or complex programme

• Experience of ERP programmes is preferred, but not essential

• Be extremely proactive and be prepared to ‘lean into’ challenges and challenging situations when they arise

• Have working experience of project management methodologies (although specific methodologies are not mandated)

• A proactivity to be curious; pre-empt issues, challenge, ask the right questions and propose solutions rather than wait for questions

• Be able to cut through complexity and get to the ‘so what?’, enabling effective communication to senior leadership and providing clear, polished, and concise outputs

• Calmness under pressure and an expert ability in problem solving under ambiguity

• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously with effective time management and prioritisation

• Travel to both our London and Peterborough office is required. Primary location can be either.
  
  

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

• Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.