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PMO Team Lead - MoD IS

Bristol, England Job ID JR2025458728 Category Program Management Role Type Hybrid Post Date Jun. 09, 2025 Security Clearance Required
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Job Description

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Role Overview:

Boeing Defence UK are seeking a dynamic and experienced PMO Lead team.

This role is pivotal in driving the success for our Programs within a SAFe Agile framework.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leadership & Strategy: Lead the PMO team to achieve program and team objectives, ensuring effective prioritisation of work in a complex delivery environment aligned with SAFe Agile principles.
  • PMO Operations: Oversee the efficient execution of PMO tasks, ensuring coordination and integration of activities to support agile delivery.
  • Work Management: Manage the PMO backlog, prioritising and scheduling all PMO work in accordance with agile methodologies and team capacity.
  • Continuous Improvement: Drive initiatives for continuous improvement, providing support and constructive feedback to team members and stakeholders to enhance collaboration and performance.
  • Governance & Reporting: Ensure the delivery of PMO contractual obligations, including program governance and reporting, while adhering to SAFe Agile practices.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, fostering collaboration and transparency.
  • Customer Focus: Maintain a strong customer-centric approach within the PMO team, actively seeking and sharing information to address customer needs and expectations.
  • Problem Solving: Facilitate the resolution of complex issues by implementing appropriate policies, procedures, and guidelines, ensuring effective tools and systems are utilised.
  • Meeting Facilitation: Enable continuous improvement in the facilitation and administration of key project and program governance meetings, aligning with agile ceremonies.
  • Training & Mentorship: Train, coach, and mentor team members in agile practices and PMO responsibilities, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
  • Reporting & Controls: Establish and maintain effective reporting and governance controls that align with agile metrics and performance indicators.

Preferred Qualifications & Experience:

The ideal candidate will possess a blend of leadership, agile expertise, and stakeholder management skills to ensure the effective delivery of projects while meeting contractual obligations and enhancing team performance.

  • Experience: Proven experience leading a program office for large, complex IT programs/projects throughout the entire project lifecycle, preferably in the Defence sector.
  • Agile Expertise: Strong understanding of SAFe Agile methodologies and experience working in a Change Management Office with commercial awareness.
  • Reporting Skills: Solid experience in management reporting, including tracking plans, benefits, and RAIDO management within an agile context.
  • Certifications: Ideally holds recognised project management accreditation (e.g., P30, Prince2 Practitioner, PMO/PMP, APMP, and/or SAFe Agile) and a foundational understanding of ITIL methodology.
  • Skills: Exceptional planning and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and initiatives simultaneously under time constraints.
  • Analytical Thinking: Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, ensuring effective processes and procedures are in place for PMO delivery.
  • Relationship Management: Strong ability to identify, build, and maintain relationships with team members, stakeholders, and cross-functional groups.

Becoming a Boeing Defence UK Employee

As a Boeing Defence UK employee, you’ll have the freedom to choose a healthy work-life balance through flexible working arrangements and incentive programmes, and you’ll have access to a range of resources and tools to support your professional growth, health, and wellbeing.

The Boeing benefits package goes above and beyond, focusing on your physical, emotional, financial, and social wellbeing. Here’s a snapshot of what we offer:

  • Competitive salary, with annual incentive plans, including access to a pension plan with up to 10% employer contribution. Access to a wide-range of free learning courses and tools to support your professional development.
  • Diverse and inclusive culture, with a range of societies that you can get involved in.
  • Annual leave entitlement of 23 days, plus UK public holidays and a Winter Break between Christmas and New Year.
  • Company-paid private healthcare medical plan (BUPA Medical Plan) and annual health assessment entitlement.
  • Enhanced sickness pay.
  • Business-leading maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave. 
  • Access to a life insurance entitlement of six times your annual salary.
  • Access to a wide-range of physical, emotional, financial, and social wellbeing programmes, tools, and incentives.

Security Clearance and Eligibility

Important informationregarding this role: This role is for a locally hired position in the UK and candidates must have current legal authorisation to work immediately in the UK. Boeing will not attempt to obtain immigration and / or labour sponsorship for any applicants. Benefits and pay are determined at the local level and are not part of Boeing US based payroll.

Please note that this role will require you to undergo a security clearance check (Security Check [SC]; please view further information about this here).


Applications for this position will be accepted until Jun. 17, 2025


Export Control Requirements: This is not an Export Control position.

Relocation

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Security Clearance

This position requires the ability to obtain United Kingdom Security Check.

Visa Sponsorship

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Shift

Day Shift (United Kingdom)


Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not accept unlawful discrimination in our recruitment or employment practices on any grounds including but not limited to; race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military and veteran status, or other characteristics covered by applicable law.

We have teams in more than 65 countries, and each person plays a role in helping us become one of the world’s most innovative, diverse and inclusive companies. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and welcome applications from candidates with disabilities. Applicants are encouraged to share with our recruitment team any accommodations required during the recruitment process. Accommodations may include but are not limited to: conducting interviews in accessible locations that accommodate mobility needs, encouraging candidates to bring and use any existing assistive technology such as screen readers and offering flexible interview formats such as virtual or phone interviews.

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