Job title: PMO Lead
Location: Edinburgh office (hybrid)
Position type: Full-time
Closing date: Friday 19 December 2025
Apply: [email protected]  

 

Role and responsibilities 

  1. Support the Programme Delivery Director with the delivery of Criterion’s programme plan.
    1. Develop and maintain the Criterion Programme Plan covering strategic, new and existing Standards development projects.
    2. Deliver the Programme Plan through adherence to, and operation of, the governance structure agreed with Criterion Management and Shareholders to the quality and satisfaction of key stakeholders.
  2. Manage resources across a portfolio of strategically important projects, managing any resource or time-scale dependencies and/or constraints, working closely with the Programme Delivery Director to assign specific resources to deliver the Criterion Programme Plan.
  3. Ensure good practice and consistency in management of projects through robust control mechanisms (planning, reporting, internal communication etc.) and help Criterion derive maximum value from its project activity.
    1. Manage, monitor and mitigate project risks.
    2. Liaise regularly with the Programme Delivery Director about project timelines, resourcing and budgets.
    3. Work with Business and Technical Architects to prepare project progress reports.
  4. Maintain standard development process to deliver high quality deliverables, including capturing and highlighting rationale and implications to delivery where there are deviations.
  5. Ensure quality and completeness of standards deliverables.
  6. Liaise between Business and Technical Architects and the Criterion Management team to report on progress, risks and issues.
  7. Member of the Design Authority to help set direction and shape project activity and deliverables.
  8. Cultivate close relationships with Criterion governance representatives as well as wider industry Stakeholders, including the promotion of Criterion Standards and their adoption across financial services industry.
  9. Collaborate with all areas within Criterion to foster team spirit and good inter-team communications.

Key Skills

  • Proven interpersonal skills, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Strong multi-stakeholder management.
  • Ability to support implementation of project management disciplines.
  • Drive efficiency through process improvements.
  • Ability to identify deliverables for key project milestones
  • Self-motivated with the ability to motivate team members.
  • Excellent written and oral communication, adapting as appropriate to audiences.
  • Ability and willingness to support Proposition and Sales and Marketing activities.
  • Additionally, we would benefit from experience with:
    • UK financial services.
    • e-business or data integration environments.
    • Project management/team leading.