PMO Manager

At Clarion, our people are at the absolute heart of what we do. We’re proud that our core values of PASSION , CARE , IMAGINATION , and TRUST define the way we carry out our work across all of our teams.

If you share our values and want to be a part of a successful, dynamic, and creative global business then we want to hear from you.

The Opportunity:

As PMO Manager, you will act as the “single source of truth” across all projects, providing clear oversight of progress, risks, dependencies, and benefits realisation. You will ensure alignment to business strategy while maintaining high standards of delivery performance across both technical and business transformation programmes.

You will lead, mentor, and develop a team of project managers, PMO analysts, and support staff, fostering a culture of consistency, accountability, and continuous improvement. The role also carries responsibility for portfolio-level resource planning, budget management, and financial forecasting, ensuring optimal utilisation and cost control.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Project Management Office. Manage various initiatives, establishing governance, best practices, and reporting to ensure strategic alignment and delivery success.

• Provide a "single source of truth" by monitoring and reporting on progress, risks, dependencies, and benefits tracking across all projects.

• Lead and mentor project managers, PMO staff, and analysts to drive best practices and ensure consistent delivery.

• Manage portfolio-level resource capacity planning, budget oversight, and financial forecasting.

• Communicate project status, risks, and strategic initiatives to senior management, acting as a key advisor.

• Ability to guide and coordinate with multiple technical teams working on different transformation tracks.

• Ability to effectively manage deadlines with stakeholders and handle deviations confidently before escalating for additional support.

• Ensuring that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.

• Identify, document and address risks, issues or scheduling conflicts.

• Experience of working with waterfall, agile and hybrid development teams

• Responsible for ensuing strong business partnering with a strong customer focus

Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours:

• At least 5-10 years’ experience in Project/ Program Management managing multiple technology projects (including in Software development and Infrastructure)

• Solid knowledge of software development lifecycle

• Solid PM Office management and project management skills, experience across waterfall, agile and hybrid methodologies.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion

• Good knowledge of technical architecture

• Demonstrable capability of understand complex technical landscapes

• Partners with Stakeholders: has the desire to work co-operatively with all stakeholders to meet mutual goals and seeks out and shares inputs from others

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical individuals

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams

• Detail oriented

• Supplier Management
  

About Clarion Events

Clarion Events is one of the world’s leading event organisers, producing and delivering innovative and market-leading events since 1947. ()

Clarion Events embrace diversity and equal opportunities in all that we do. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Clarion is private equity backed and owned by Blackstone. Blackstone is one of the world’s leading global investment funds, investing capital for the long term in order to build successful, resilient businesses. ()

Our purpose is to deliver exceptional customer outcomes and experiences, by making every connection count.

Our vision is we want every one of our products to be a market leader in customer satisfaction and delight.

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

• End of year wellbeing shutdown (closed for the last week of the year)

• Employees on a permanent or fixed-term contract are gifted an extra day of leave that can be used for a celebration of your choosing, e.g. birthday, Eid, Diwali, etc.

• Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)

• Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work

• Pension Scheme

• Private Medical Insurance

• Health Cash Plan

• Wellbeing Library (MYNDUP)

• Mentoring Programme

• Season Ticket Loan

• Cycle to Work Schemes

• Free on-site gym and shower facilities

• Free eyesight tests

• Free flu vaccination – offered on site once a year for all employees

Our Values

PASSION

We deliver all our events with passion for people, the environment and businesses. We form connections with those who are just as passionate about what they do as we are. We always strive to exceed expectations and celebrate success. We love what we do, and it shows.

CARE

We care about our people and our products and work tirelessly to achieve lasting connections and satisfaction for ourselves, our customers and the businesses they support. We really get people - everyone is welcome.

IMAGINATION

Everything is possible. We constantly challenge the status quo and create amazing experiences and opportunities. We take huge satisfaction in solving problems. As open-minded and fun-loving people, the sky is our limit.

TRUST

We trust our skills, people and partners to deliver extraordinary events our customers have come to rely on. We support everyone around us and always learn through our experiences. We are honest and straight forward. You can always rely on us.

Equal Opportunities

We encourage employees to be open and confident and recognise that every member of the team makes a vital contribution.

Clarion embraces equality, diversity and inclusion and seeks to promote these principles in all of our business activities.

When recruiting new employees or providing opportunities for promotion, we will:

• Recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of background, and make the best use of their talents;

• Ensure that no person is unlawfully discriminated against;

• Select the best person for the role based on their skills, qualifications and abilities.

This statement sets out our commitment to equal opportunities and to preventing discrimination in the workplace.

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