Job Title: IT PMO Analyst / Technical Change Manager (Consultant)
Location: City of London - 3 days per week
Duration: 3 6 month initial contract (likely to be extended)
Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 dependent on experience
Start: ASAP
At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are problem solvers who call on our collective experience, knowledge and skills to support customers to access benefits early.
We are reimagining how consulting services are delivered, taking a human centred approach, and our work is having a material impact on people's lives.
Due to growth of an ongoing programme of work, you will join our team as IT PMO Analyst / Technical Change Manager within the Legal Services sector where you will play a key role in building and maintaining relationships across diverse stakeholder groups on behalf of our clients.
The opportunity:
Detail focussed, structured and detail oriented, the Pace IT PMO Analyst /Technical Change Manager provides structured Programme level support across a high volume technical change environment, embedded within IT delivery teams. The role focuses on coordination, dependency management, and assurance of technical change within a large merger Programme, supporting Programme and Project Managers to ensure change is well understood, properly documented, and effectively coordinated to avoid downstream impacts. Comfortable operating in a complex, high pressure programmes, you will also support the effective governance, reporting, and performance management of a portfolio comprising multiple programmes and interdependent projects.
Your responsibilities will include:
PMO & Programme Support:
- Support the day to day operation of the IT PMO across complex Programmes comprising multiple interrelated projects and technical workstreams
- Maintain and assure core Programme artefacts including plans, RAID logs, dependency tracking, action trackers, and status reporting
- Coordinate Programme level governance activities, including preparation of materials for Programme boards and IT leadership forums
- Produce clear, accurate, and timely reporting, highlighting delivery progress, risks, dependencies, and emerging issues
- Provide analysis and insight across Programmes, identifying cross project risks, capacity pressures, and delivery trends
Technical Change Coordination & Assurance:
- Support and assure the management of technical change within IT Programmes, operating in environments with a high volume of concurrent change
- Maintain a clear understanding of dependencies between technical changes, both
- at Programme / portfolio level across projects and workstreams, and
- at change to change level where timing, impact, or risk may interact
- Coordinate closely with Programme and Project Managers to ensure technical change is appropriately planned, sequenced, and aligned to Programme milestones
- Provide assurance over the quality and completeness of change information, ensuring impacts, dependencies, risks, and assumptions are clearly understood and documented
- Support coordination activities as required for Programmes, including consolidating inputs, highlighting dependency or risk issues, and supporting timely submissions
- Proactively surface risks, clashes, and gaps in technical change planning and drive resolution through the appropriate owners and forums
- Pull together fragmented technical change information into a single, coherent view to support decision making and governance
- Where required, step in to help run technical change coordination activities for the IT workstream of a Programme, while remaining aligned to the wider change framework
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:
Essential:
- Proven experience working in a PMO, Programme, or portfolio support role within an IT environment.
- Hands on experience supporting IT / technical change governance, particularly in complex or high volume change environments.
- Experience managing or assuring dependencies across multiple projects and technical workstreams.
- Experience supporting governance and assurance processes within IT delivery Programmes.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work across fast moving delivery environments.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical complexity into clear risks, actions, and insights.
Desirable:
- M&A integration experience
- A background in working in the Legal or professional services industry
What's in it for you?
An opportunity to join a high-growth, scale up consulting firm; we see an opportunity to make a material difference to how clients are served, and are on a mission to create environments that thrive for our clients.
A dedicated focus on your individual personal development: managed through annual performance appraisals, individual personal development plans, and our bi weekly 'continuous conversations' programme.
Access to Corporate APM membership benefits and additional professional development through a personal training budget (subject to approval of a relevant business case).
Compensation and Benefits include:
- Pace Pension
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Private Healthcare
- Life Assurance
- Critical Illness
- Holiday Purchase Scheme
- Electric Car Scheme
- Cycle To Work Scheme
- Birthday Day off, Paid Volunteer Day off
- Reservist Leave
- Enhanced Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave
- Work from Abroad policy
- Regular company and team events
- Discounted shopping with ADS Rewards
Available to permanent employees only.
About Pace:
Pace is one of Europe's fastest growing UK based management consultancies, transforming the industry with a focus on delivering measurable customer value.
Pace tackles complex challenges across the Legal, Central Government, and National Infrastructure sectors. By optimising people and systems, we help organisations enhance efficiency, boost productivity, and achieve significant savings in time, cost, and resources.
At Pace, we recognise that we are only as good as our people. Apply today to find out about the great things we're achieving together and the fun we have as a team.