Hours:

Full time permanent role - 35 hours per week - Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm
Hybrid working from Skipton Head Office

Closing Date:

Sun, 4 May 2025

Join Us as Enterprise PMO Lead– Drive Change That Matters

Are you ready to shape how change happens across an entire organisation? Want to play a pivotal role in enabling a purpose-driven portfolio, aligning strategy to delivery, and embedding agile ways of working at scale? If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for enabling teams and making an impact, this could be your next big move.

What Will You Be Doing?

As a senior leader, you'll lead from the front—empowering teams, driving delivery, and helping shape how change is governed and executed across the Society. You’ll work at the heart of our change journey, helping to connect big-picture strategy with on-the-ground delivery.

Here’s a taste of what you’ll be driving:

• Lead the EPMO to deliver real insight, build capability, and embed metrics and KPI tracking across the Society.
• Transform reporting across Portfolio to Team levels – including quarterly planning and progress reviews that help us make better decisions.
• Embed agile governance across our Value Streams (VS) and ARTs.
• Shape the future – define and deliver the EPMO roadmap for 2025 and beyond.
• Modernise our tools – design the delivery roadmap for an integrated tooling suite that supports agile, data-led decision-making.

What Do We Need From You?

We’re looking for a visionary and pragmatic leader—someone who can combine strong delivery acumen with a passion for people and continuous improvement. You’ll bring structure, insight, and inspiration.

Here’s what you’ll be responsible for:

• Governance that drives action – implement and evolve operational governance and cadences across VS/ARTs, aligned to strategic priorities.
• Insightful reporting – ensure our reporting doesn’t just track progress but sparks the right conversations and enables real prioritisation.
• Shape processes and standards – work closely with the wider Change Team to refine how we deliver and ensure the right tools and templates are in place.
• Lead and grow the EPMO team – create a culture of development, performance, and innovation.

You’ll Also Enable:

• Strategic alignment & assurance – partnering with Corporate Planning, Finance, and Change to monitor portfolio performance and outcomes.
• Portfolio governance & QA – embedding EPMO standards, sharing best practices, and ensuring high-quality change delivery.
• Resource & capacity planning – ensuring we understand and can respond to demand across Change and BAU activity.
• Agile enablement – support teams in adopting agile value management, planning, and investment tracking.
• Financial oversight – track ART and VS spend, manage variances, and support effective investment decision-making.
• Insight-led decision making – drive KPIs, RAIDD management, and highlight emerging risks or blockers to leadership.
• Inspiring leadership – act as a servant leader, champion agile values, and support your team’s growth and strategic direction.

Why Join Us?

This is more than just a leadership role – it’s a chance to help shape the way an entire organisation delivers change. You’ll work with a brilliant team, be given the autonomy to make your mark, and be part of a culture that genuinely values people and purpose.

Ready to lead the future of EPMO? Let’s talk.

Who Are We?

Not just another building society. Not just another job. We're the fourth largest building society in the UK and we're owned by our members.

Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep members at the heart of what we do.

Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we'll help you take the next step towards a better future.

You will join our change team as a senior leader, leading the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) team, focused on providing insight across the portfolio, as well as enabling practices and providing tools to ensure delivery is aligned to strategy and that the Society’s investment and value delivered to members and colleagues is maximised.

We work closely with all teams across the business including Value Stream and ART leadership with core responsibilities in defining and driving effective portfolio governance, value delivery, resource, capacity & demand management, and performance & benefits tracking.

What’s In It For You?

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.

We have a range of other benefits available to you including;

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
• Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
• A commitment to training and development
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
• We care about your health and wellbeing – we provide a range of benefits that support this including cycle to work