Global PMO Lead

UFORCE • Europe, Europe

3d

About The Position

UFORCE is hiring a leader to build and run its Global Program Management Office (PMO). The PMO will establish a practical, consistent approach to running programs across the company while avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy. It will act as an execution partner to functional and regional leaders, helping teams deliver without adding an approval layer. Business results, budgets, and decisions remain with the functional and regional leaders who own them; the role works closely with those leaders and senior executives.

This is a hands-on position that combines personally leading some of the company’s most complex programs—often beginning with ambiguous priorities—with building and leading the PMO. The company is growing quickly, so the role calls for comfort with change, unclear structures, and a substantial workload.

Requirements

• Personally led several high-priority cross-functional initiatives from ambiguous requirements to successful delivery.
• Built, scaled, or materially improved a PMO or enterprise program management function.
• Managed programs across multiple countries, business units, or distributed organisations.
• Worked directly with C-level executives and functional leaders to set priorities, resolve conflicts, and drive execution without direct authority.
• Managed competing initiatives and limited resources across a portfolio of programs.
• Managed and developed program managers or similar cross-functional execution teams.
• Established practical tracking, executive reporting, and accountability systems that improved delivery outcomes.
• Worked in a fast-growing organisation with ambiguity and changing structures, and can move between portfolio-level prioritisation and detailed execution.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in hardware, manufacturing, defence, government technology, or another complex delivery environment.
• A professional services background or experience in a complex enterprise with heavy cross-functional dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-priority cross-functional programs from ambiguous requirements through delivery, defining sponsors, owners, timelines, dependencies, and success criteria.
• Agree with senior leadership on a focused set of high-impact initiatives rather than tracking everything.
• Provide executive leadership with a consolidated view of major initiatives across functions and regions, including status, milestones, risks, resource constraints, and decisions needed.
• Identify blockers early and escalate them within agreed timelines; resolve unclear ownership, handoffs, and cross-functional dependencies before they cause delays.
• Establish a lightweight, globally consistent operating model for prioritisation, planning, execution, reporting, and escalation that accommodates differences between functions and regions.
• Build on existing weekly, monthly, and quarterly operating rhythms rather than creating additional recurring meetings.
• Manage competing priorities and resource constraints across a portfolio of programs and help leaders make trade-offs.
• Hire, develop, and lead program managers, ensuring each program has an accountable program manager or execution owner.
• Build a PMO service model that supports global and regional priorities without becoming a decision-making bottleneck.
• Reduce duplicated work and unnecessary coordination overhead, and improve the predictability of major initiative delivery.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed