PMO Lead

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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: PMO Lead

Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)

Contract and Shift details: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours a week

Are you an experienced PMO professional motivated to bring structure, clarity, and consistency to complex global programmes? Do you thrive in environments where collaboration, governance, and precision are vital for meeting delivery goals efficiently?

We’re looking for an organized and capable PMO Lead to join our Enterprise ERP programme—a multi-year transformation initiative spanning multiple countries including Denmark, Poland and Spain. In this pivotal role, you’ll work alongside cross-functional teams to provide programme oversight, drive delivery excellence, and embed best-practice methodologies across our enterprise-wide projects. With visibility at senior levels and control across workstreams, this is your opportunity to shape how we deliver one of the most significant programmes in our business.

What you'll be doing:
- Overseeing programme governance and delivery progress across the Enterprise ERP programme, ensuring alignment with scope, timelines, and budgets
- Maintaining robust documentation and control processes via project tools like SharePoint, including process maps, training materials, and test scripts
- Supporting budget tracking and capex spend approvals, ensuring accurate financial reconciliation and reporting
- Developing, embedding, and evolving project delivery methodologies, templates, and best practices across workstreams
- Acting as a central coordination point between project managers, change leads, and GPOs to ensure programme alignment and consistency
- Supporting resource planning and ensuring project teams have the right tools, templates, and guidance to deliver effectively
- Identifying and resolving documentation gaps or risks to delivery by collaborating closely with key stakeholders
- Providing an active analyst service when required, to assess constraints and propose practical delivery improvements
What you'll bring:
- Demonstrated experience managing or supporting PMOs in large-scale transformation programmes, ideally within ERP implementations (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365)
- Proficient understanding of project governance, documentation control, and budget management in complex, cross-functional environments
- A degree-level qualification is essential; MBA or relevant project/programme management certifications (e.g. PRINCE2, MSP)
- Background in manufacturing, supply chain, or finance environments, with exposure to vendors or consultancy (Big Four experience a plus)
- Organisational and analytical skills with a detail-focused approach to managing artefacts, plans, and risks
- Ability to work closely and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders including project managers, change leads, and executive sponsors
- Experience working in a matrix structure and across geographically dispersed teams, with effective cross-cultural communication skills
Location

Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture. Please note, this role may require occasional travel to AB Agri sites in the UK and overseas

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

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AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Taylor Waldon via [email protected].

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