PMO Lead

Strategy Execution & Planning

• Lead and coordinate the annual planning cycle, ensuring supporting plans across the organisation are aligned to strategic priorities.
• Work with Directors and leadership teams to improve the quality, consistency and credibility of supporting plans, ensuring they include clear objectives, milestones, success measures and ownership.
• Coordinate and maintain the organisation's five-year strategic roadmap, ensuring agreed changes are reflected consistently across supporting plans and reporting
• Support the review of strategic initiatives and major programmes, providing analysis of their alignment with strategy priorities and identifying dependencies and opportunities for collaboration across strategic initiatives, functions and departments.
• Provide planning and performance information to support prioritisation and investment decisions.

Performance Management & Measurement

• Coordinate and continuously improve the strategy performance framework, including maintaining the strategic metrics library, definitions and reporting standards.
• Work with Directors, data owners and analysts to ensure strategic reporting is trusted, accurate and capable of supporting senior decision-making.
• Support the setting and review of annual targets that contribute to delivery of the strategy.
• Monitor progress against strategic goals, identifying emerging risks, opportunities and areas requiring Executive or Board attention.
• Support consistent tracking of outcomes and benefits across strategic programmes, initiatives and investments.
• Promote a culture of evidence-based decision making through the effective use of strategic performance information.

Governance & Reporting

• Manage the annual strategy governance calendar, ensuring alignment across Executive, Committees and Board reporting cycles.
• Produce high-quality strategy reports, dashboards and performance updates for senior leadership, Committees and the Board.
• Coordinate organisational input into strategic reporting, ensuring information is accurate, timely and presented to a consistently high standard.
• Ensure consistent reporting against strategy ambitions, strategic goals, must-wins and enabling outcomes.
• Support the Technology Director in maintaining an integrated view of strategic delivery across supporting plans, programmes, investments and organisational performance measures.
• Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, quality and impact of strategic performance reporting and governance processes.

Strategic Insight & Organisational Engagement

• Support the preparation of Board, Committee and Executive discussions relating to strategic performance and organisational priorities.
• Collaborate across the organisation to build organisational understanding of how objectives and activities contribute to delivery of the strategy
• Support preparation of organisational updates, presentations and strategic communications.
• Escalate performance concerns, delivery risks and strategic issues requiring Executive or Board attention.
• Present strategic information, performance insights and delivery risks clearly and appropriately for senior stakeholders.