Head of Capital PMO

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Job Description

As we continue to grow our capital investment we are expanding the Capital PMO (Programme Management Office) team and recruiting a further Head of Capital PMO for strategic capital programmes. This role leads a multi-disciplinary team of PMO services in collaboration with Programmes, Strategy, People & Finance teams to ensure we deliver some of our key transformational objectives to drive business outcomes, while driving efficiency & value.

This role works in collaboration with the delivery ecosystem and HAL delivery teams to establish and improve ways of working, ensuring adherence to both HGL and RAB processes and procedures. It is Heathrow's conscience, providing timely, accurate performance data that allows the teams to make informed decisions that enable out-performance.

The PMO supports the effective management of Heathrow's Investment Portfolio. This includes best practice Project Management processes, provision of appropriate Management Information to enable effective decision making, ensuring effective management of resource to deliver the Portfolio and proving logistics support. You will drive the extent in which the digital agenda helps the organisation to achieve its strategic goals, through intelligent reliable and timely data at the core of the organisation to drive business value and outcomes, and drive innovation and automation reports and dashboards, using a single source of truth and digitised data models.

Responsibilities

• Leading the successful implementation of the PMO' s vision, strategy, responsibilities, services and deliverables across and within the business.
• Accountability for guiding, coaching and developing the PMO team, ensuring that PMO activities support delivery of the Organisation's strategic objectives, and add value through the services it provides to Development and the wider business.
• Leading and developing strategic supply chain partners.
• Working together with Finance, Procurement and Regulation teams to delivery robust processes, tools and management information to ensure the successful delivery of the current portfolio and enable delivery of future investments.
• Implementing the Heathrow Programme Controls strategy establishing consistency and quality service delivery.
• Accountability for the assurance and scrutiny of Programmes and Projects through the Gateway process and ensuring that all investments have robust business cases, and that investments deliver demonstrable capital efficiency.
• Accountability for the management of the cost and controls consultant to deliver optimised and risk-based services to the Development and Procurement teams.
• Developing a culture across the Heathrow team, and the supply chain that fosters an energised open collaborative approach founded upon the consistent execution of the Heathrow processes and Employers Requirements.

Qualifications

• A strong and inspiring leader of multi-disciplinary teams, able to create a clear vision for the future, build a strong high performing physical and virtual team, engaging and motivating others to follow and pursue that vision.
• Proven track record of planning and monitoring a complex set of constraints across an evolving strategic landscape to determine solutions which optimise investments.
• Experienced in influencing stakeholders across all levels of an organisation, often with conflicting priorities. This includes external organisation, government bodies and shareholder/exec level positions.
• An effective problem solver, with a track record of applying a challenging and analytical approach to complex issues and developing innovative yet pragmatic solutions.
• Professionally qualified or equivalent - Civil Engineering/Construction/Project, Programme Management or General Business or numerate Degree.
• Substantial experience in programme controls on major infrastructure projects and programmes.
• Extensive experience of change management and project controls tools and systems.

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About Us

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you'll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there's no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our agile approach offers the opportunity to combine home working with meetings, events and training at the airport. All roles involve some on-site working each week, so you'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

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Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With four diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

About the Team

Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers, while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. At Heathrow, you can be part of this - providing solutions that make every journey better for millions each year. That means ensuring we meet the changing needs of the passengers, colleagues and partners who use our airport to work, travel, trade, shop, eat, explore and connect. Our Solutions team covers project management, process improvement, business change, technology, cyber defence, masterplanning, infrastructure and procurement. It brings together people with the skills to deliver prestigious and often large-scale projects, from transforming terminals to making big reductions in our carbon emissions.

Every day will test your skills and give you the opportunity to make your mark. You might be working with the technology and data that power our city within a city, driving vital commercial agreements with everyone from retailers to airlines, or improving the unique infrastructure that includes everything from 200 buildings to 250 HV substations. It's a collaborative environment, where you can rely on the support of the experts around you as you take on projects you'll both take pride in and feel passionate about.