Job Description

Basic information

Location

Cardiff, Leeds, Milton Keynes

Business Line

Enabling Functions

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

11-Nov-2025

Req #

21217
Job description

Connect to your Industry

An exciting opportunity for a PMO (Portfolio Management Office) Manager to work within the Agile Management Office. You will be working in a team with cross-functional expertise and consultancy skillsets to deliver an exceptional experience to our people. This opportunity involves building collaborative relationships within a matrix organisation and taking ownership in driving standards, consistency, reporting, resource management, and best practice. You will have the ability to establish and maintain governance structures that define control of deployment for delivery of change initiatives and align with Deloitte best practice. This is a 'hands-on' role requiring a proven understanding of project, programme and change management, so it will suit those with a genuine passion for these disciplines.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.


What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we

lead the way

,

serve with integrity

,

take care of each other

,

foster inclusion

, and

collaborate for measurable impact

. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

The successful candidate, in conjunction with the HR Portfolio Delivery Lead, will be responsible for the ongoing operation and continuous improvement of our HR PMO, the Agile Management Office. You will have the opportunity to shape and influence the refinement and enhancement of robust portfolio management processes across all of our strategic people and change projects; spanning all HR COEs including Reward, Resourcing, Learning & Talent, and Inclusion & Wellbeing. Working closely with the HR Portfolio Delivery Lead, you will foster a culture of ownership and operational excellence, maintaining efficient practices and providing supporting services that are critical to a successful portfolio office.


The successful applicant will have informed opinions on portfolio governance and effective delivery methodologies, be able to articulate ideas clearly, and champion continuous improvement in delivery effectiveness. You will generate and nurture strong relationships with HR and other cross-business line teams, enabling efficient execution and clear communication.


Key responsibilities will include:

Portfolio Governance & Control: Ensure adherence to established governance requirements, standards, and methodologies across the HR Portfolio, including regular quality checking of project updates. Oversee and ensure compliance with change control process to manage variations to scope (time, cost, resource) and change requests to support and maintain transparency and control. Project Oversight & Risk Management: Work closely with project leads to understand individual project progress, challenges, and interdependencies. Proactively monitor and manage portfolio-level risks and issues, escalating critical items to the HR Portfolio Delivery Lead and relevant stakeholders as required. Resource management: the ability to acquire and deploy internal and external resources to projects using time-based planning with an emphasis on activities and resource. Integrated planning: the ability to take forward the definition of outputs into detailed planning, incorporating multiple HR teams delivery into an integrated HR plan. Cross-functional Stakeholder Collaboration: Work collaboratively with key cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., ITS, HR Services, Procurement, Comms) to understand their needs, identify and manage interdependencies, assess resource capacity, and proactively address issues and risks to support effective portfolio delivery. Reporting & Performance Monitoring: Manage and deliver comprehensive reporting requirements for the HR Portfolio, providing timely and accurate insights to HR leadership. This includes monitoring key performance indicators, milestone slippage, and overall portfolio health. Roadmap Management: Support the management and communication of the HR Portfolio Roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and clear visibility of upcoming initiatives. Provide insights to inform decision-making on prioritisation, timings and resource planning across the portfolio Tooling & Enablement: Control and optimise the HR Portfolio utilising monday.com. This includes monitoring progress, usage, and providing upskilling and support to project teams to maximise the tool's effectiveness. Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvements and enhancements to how the HR Portfolio is managed, identifying opportunities to refine processes, tools, and overall delivery efficiency.

Adaptive Delivery: Champion an adaptive and responsive approach to portfolio management, ensuring processes can flex to meet evolving business needs and environmental changes.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential

A highly motivated and results-oriented professional with a proactive, action-oriented mindset, capable of delivering under pressure and adapting effectively to an ever-changing environment. Proven experience in a PMO Manager or similar role, with a strong understanding of project, programme, and portfolio management principles. Demonstrable experience in managing reporting requirements, risk/issue management, and governance adherence within a portfolio context. Experience in driving continuous improvement and best practices in portfolio management, with a pragmatic ability to tailor governance to the firm's current maturity and needs, ensuring solutions are flexible and avoid unnecessary complexity Proactively build and maintain strong relationships with senior business stakeholders and cross-functional teams. Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex information clearly and concisely. Detailed understanding and proven experience of working with effective delivery processes, tools, and methodologies. Experience with portfolio management tools such as monday.com (or similar, e.g., JIRA, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Confluence). Team player and collaborator with a focus on team dynamics that foster unity

Desirable

Experience of working in a partnership and/or highly matrixed organisation HR / human capital experience

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Human Resources

At Deloitte, Human Resources is transforming. We are already an award-winning HR team but we're not resting there. We want to make an impact that matters for our people, our clients and for society. To achieve this, we're firmly embedding HR into the business, advising and innovating along with our business leaders.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

Deloitte has provided me with outstanding support as a new parent and enabled me to take nine months of parental leave and to work flexibly since I returned to work.

Jim, Enabling Functions

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in either our Milton Keynes Virtual community, Cardiff or our Leeds office with hybrid working.


At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.


We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.


Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.


Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers


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