PMO Senior Project Manager (Mat Cover)
Job Role: PMO Senior Project Manager (13 Month Mat cover)
Job Type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract
Location: London or Peterborough , Hybrid (3 office days a week)
Role purpose:
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the end to end delivery of complex business and technology change initiatives, ensuring successful outcomes across cross functional teams in a fast paced environment. The role combines strong delivery focus, financial management, and stakeholder engagement to ensure projects land on time, within budget, and to a high standard of quality.
They will work closely with senior stakeholders—including CSuite—providing clear updates, managing risks, and ensuring that all change activity aligns to business strategy and governance standards.
This role will oversee multiple concurrent projects, balancing competing priorities, resources, and timelines, while maintaining strong stakeholder alignment.
Key accountabilities:
Project Delivery
Lead and manage complex, multidisciplinary business and technology projects, including digital transformation implementations, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and within budget
Shape, scope, and mobilise new initiatives, guiding teams through business case development, planning, financials, and mobilisation into full change programmes.
Develop comprehensive project plans, defining scope, objectives, and deliverables. Create timelines, budgets, and resource allocation strategies.
Define key project milestones and complete overall reviews, conduct release readiness reviews, Business Go/No-Go reviews and capture key lessons learned
Oversee concurrent projects, balancing competing priorities, resources, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
Work closely with key internal teams and stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery and transition to BAU
Stakeholder Communication
Identify, engage, and manage key stakeholders across the project lifecycle, ensuring strong communication and alignment.
Provide clear, accurate, and timely updates, escalating risks and issues that may impact delivery or benefits realisation.
Confidently communicate at all levels, including SLT and Board, providing well-structured summaries and presentations.
Governance, Reporting & Best Practice
Develop, design, and maintain project plans, financial controls, documentation, and reporting artefacts in line with PMO governance.
Ensure adherence to best practice delivery standards and contribute to continual improvement of PMO frameworks and tools.
Support the evaluation, initiation, and shaping of new project ideas into viable, well defined delivery programmes.
Apply appropriate delivery methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, hybrid), ensuring effective governance, RAID management, and reporting.
Ensure compliance with policy, audit and legal requirements such as Health & Safety, GDPR, and follow company policies
Risk, Issue and Dependency Management
Identify potential risks and develop strategies to mitigate them. Monitor and address issues as they arise to keep the project on track.
Manage crossteam dependencies, coordinate internal and external resources, and address blockers.
Quickly identify and address project-related issues and obstacles. Use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to find effective solutions.
Ensure continuous quality control and issue management throughout project execution.
Leadership & Team Development
Lead crossfunctional project teams, fostering high performance and collaboration.
Provide guidance and mentoring to junior PMO team members, supporting capability development.
Role model positive, collaborative and agile ways of working with all areas of the business with clear thinking and strong communication, being able to lead working groups to facilitate resolution of issues and blockers to delivery
Role-specific experience and skills
Proven experience managing complex, cross functional business and technology change projects or digital transformation programmes, across multiple business units, markets or geographies
5+ years of experience in project management, preferably in a senior role
Strong leadership capabilities with a track record of guiding crossfunctional programmes and large stakeholder groups.
Advanced project planning, budgeting, and financial oversight skills.
High proficiency in project management tools and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid).
Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills, including experience with senior leaders and clients
Excellent organisational skills, including multitasking and time-management
Solid understanding of risk management and quality assurance practices
Hands-on experience with project management methodologies and tools across both waterfall and agile with the ability to apply or blend approaches based on context
Ability to anticipate delivery risks and portfolio level conflicts using practical experience and sound judgement
Experience using Smartsheets or similar Project Management tooling
Professional certifications such as PMP / PRINCE2 / AGILE are advantageous
General experience and personal qualities
Demonstrates a proactive, hands-on approach with a willingness to ’roll up sleeves’, when needed
Strong commercial acumen and ability to apply solid commercial judgment
Results / target oriented
Exceptional time management skills
Be self-motivated, driven by a high level of initiative
Be a strong team player, communicate effectively and confidence in managing escalations
Self-aware, open-minded with a high degree of personal and professional integrity
Committed to delivering exceptional customer service
Continuously strives for improvement; to look for best practice and evolve ways of working to ensure best possible results
Approachable and supportive, promoting an ‘open door’ culture
Why Travelex?
To remain the world’s leading foreign exchange specialist, we are focused on making our customers’ lives simpler, more engaging and hassle free while they travel or move money abroad. We promise to give them the freedom and peace of mind to explore the world, their way – enabling them to travel confidently because they know they have us to lean on.
Customer centricity and digital are at the heart of our business strategy. Our commitment to innovation has never been greater, with the development of a number of digital-first, greenfield products and services. And with the Travelex's resources, deep industry experience and leading brand we are inventing the future of FX, cross-border e-commerce and international payments.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
