PMO Lead- Fashion Retail Change Program

About Your Next Role
We currently have an opening for an experienced Project Management Officer (PMO) to lead activities across a portfolio of projects and programs, while developing engaging relationships across our internal stakeholders. You will be a part of an exciting Change and Transformation program incorporating all areas of our dynamic and growing fashion retail business.
As PMO you will report to the General Manager of PMO and Change and have full visibility of our program of projects. Ideally you will have experience in Retail, Supply Chain or a Financial environment and will bring your insights and experience into this innovative project. This opportunity will be a permanent full-time role and based in our Head Office in Abbotsford.
What your day will look like;
The PMO lead has responsibility for a 3-month forward planning horizon as well as day-to-day aspects of the PMO operations and quality,
- Compiling investment opportunity information for portfolio review as potential new projects and testing the data with business stakeholders
- Predictively tracking people and skill capacity needs on a forward rolling 3-month basis working with project managers to identify when we have capacity for new work, and emerging skill shortages
- Reviewing project risk management information and working with project managers and business leaders to ensure adequate mitigation plans are in place and acted upon, and reporting on the overall risk position regularly, facilitating risk workshops as needed
- Light weight governance to introduce expectations to project managers and improve quality by periodically reviewing appropriate use of artefacts and progress of work
- Assist the PMO coordinator and manager with other duties as needed including caretaking projects during people's leave of absence, what-if scenario planning with program planning tools, and progress updating in PM tools on behalf of business stakeholders who are unfamiliar with such tools.

What you will bring to this role;
- You will have over 1 years' experience as a PMO in a similar industry, or have 2-3 years' experience working as a project manager in a PMO led environment
- Hold an industry project management certification (to show commitment and interest to the profession - e.g. PRINCE2, PMI, AIPM, CSM, SAFe Agilist, Six Sigma). You have had exposure to waterfall and iterative project methods
- You will be a natural and confident communicator with excellent relationship building skills including business stakeholder engagement.
- You are comfortable being head-strong, while being well-organised able to work autonomously and confident to facilitate and lead meetings
- You have your finger on the pulse of the current projects and emerging challenges and bring your advanced problem-solving skills and PMO experience into play to counteract foreseeable issues.
- You are familiar with MS Project and / or Jira exposure as a user
- Naturally goal orientated, action focused with an ability to manage multiple conflicting priorities and work to deadlines
- Bachelor's Degree preferred, especially within a technology or business discipline
- You will ideally have retail supply chain systems understanding (basic) and PMO finance understanding

You're not expected to have 100% of these skills. We want you to grow and mature with the rest of the organisation. If you love being in the heart-beat of large scale projects and finding opportunities to improve, then we invite you to explore this role - we would love to hear from you. More about Us;
With more than 290+ stores and 2500+ employees nationally and a brand-new state-of-the-art distribution centre, we are Australia's leading retailer and wholesaler of fashion and comfort footwear, owning and operating some of Australia's most iconic brands including Mountfords, Midas, Mollini, Cinori, Wanted, Mathers, Williams, Colorado, Diana Ferrari, and Australia's biggest online footwear retailer, Styletread
As a family-owned company, at Munro Footwear Group (MFG) we value our team, our loyal customers, and our dedicated suppliers. We work hard to play hard, we celebrate each other, and we believe every Team Member is an essential part of our ongoing success.
Our culture and benefits
This is an exciting opportunity to join Munro Footwear Group as we continue to grow We offer a flexible, friendly, welcoming team environment where continued support, training and generous Team Member benefits are provided, including discounts across all our Brands.