PMO Lead

**Overview**:

- rhi is recruiting for a PMO Lead to join our clients team in Melbourne on a 12-month contract.

**Role Synopsis**
- The PMO Consultant will play a pivotal role in supporting the successful delivery of a strategic implementation project. Reporting to the Project Lead and as a key member of the project team, you will embed project governance, drive delivery excellence, and ensure alignment across multiple workstreams. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, ideal for a proactive, delivery-focused professional with a passion for enabling transformation in a dynamic environment

**Responsibilities**:
**Key Accountabilities**:

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Project Governance & Methodology**:

- ** Workstream Integration**:
Provide oversight and coordination across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment with project objectives, timelines, and interdependencies.
- ** Resource & Capacity Planning**:
Advise on resource allocation and planning, including tracking availability, travel, and leave to ensure optimal team performance.
- ** Financial Oversight**:
Monitor and report on project budgets, ensuring financial discipline and supporting forecasting and variance analysis.
- ** Executive Reporting & Governance Support**:
Prepare high-quality reporting packs and materials for governance forums, steering committees, and stakeholder updates.
- ** Risk & Issue Management**:
Maintain and monitor the project risk register, ensuring timely escalation and mitigation of risks and issues.
- ** Stakeholder Engagement & Ways of Working**:
Facilitate effective collaboration across the project team, supporting the Strategy Advisor in embedding efficient ways of working and stakeholder alignment.

**Qualifications**:
**About you**:
**Essential Education**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or a related field (desirable but not essential).
- 5+ years experience

**Essential Experience and Job Requirements**
- Proven experience in a PMO Consultant or senior project coordination role within complex, cross-functional projects.
- Strong proficiency in project management tools such as MS Project, Azure DevOps (ADO), or equivalent.
- Experience in retail operations (e.g., McDonald’s or similar) and/or fuel retail is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, drive delivery, and embed governance frameworks.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently while contributing to a collaborative team environment.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Ability to build rapport with internal and external stakeholders to achieve common goals.
- Data-driven and able to interpret financial results to improve performance.
- Growth and commercial mindset.
- Adaptable, resilient, and able to respond with agility to changing priorities

**Additional Information**
- Ability to travel as required, including occasional overnight stays.

**About rhi**

rhi is a professional services provider with global expertise. Tracing our history back to the 19th century, we have spent the last 50 years as a global leader to the energy industry.

We combine efficient systems and processes with a deep understanding of client challenges and market insight. We work with our clients to deliver information and resources that will support every stage of their operations. We deliver value to our employees, our clients and the countries that we work in.

**Diversity Statement**

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.

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