Location
The Crown Estate, London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
This senior leadership role integrates strategic delivery assurance and operational excellence across the Marine Strategic Business Unit (SBU). The postholder will lead governance, risk and compliance, safety, and strategic resource planning, while enabling successful delivery of business priorities. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, the role ensures alignment between operational delivery and strategic intent, driving continuous improvement and embedding resilience across the portfolio.

Main accountabilities include:
- Leading coordination of project governance across the Marine SBU, ensuring compliance with Group PMO standards
- Partnering with project and programme managers for planning, scheduling, dependency management, and resource tracking
- Translating strategic objectives into operational plans across safety, compliance, and resourcing
- Leading development of risk frameworks and compliance protocols in collaboration with the central Risk team
- Championing the Marine Safety First strategy and ensuring robust monitoring and reporting
- Embedding Customer Relationship Management (CRM) as a core delivery principle, supporting strategic Marine customer management and monitoring
- Leading induction and capability development of team members, fostering a high-performance culture
- Acting as senior liaison with Group Partner and other stakeholders to define and deliver operational requirements
- Delivering accurate and timely reporting to support decision-making and continuous improvement
- Identifying and implementing improvements to PMO tools, templates, delivery frameworks, and operational processes

Our Offering / Benefits
Alongside a competitive salary, pension and performance-related bonus, we offer a wide range of benefits including flexible working, market-leading family policies, shopping discounts in the West End, private healthcare, life and critical illness cover, and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work-life balance and wellbeing, enabling you to be your best self at work.

Experience
- Extensive experience in senior operational and PMO leadership roles within complex environments
- Strong background in programme and risk management within major infrastructure programmes, ideally within marine or energy sectors
- Advanced understanding of delivery methodologies such as Agile, PRINCE2, MSP and risk frameworks
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across teams
- Strong track record in governance, risk, compliance, and safety leadership
- Skilled in synthesising data across portfolios to inform decisions and improve performance

About you
- Strategic thinker with excellent leadership and communication skills
- Able to act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and collaborate effectively with multiple stakeholders
- Committed to continuous improvement and embedding resilience in operational delivery
- High integrity with a strong focus on safety and compliance

Qualifications
- Holds or is working towards professional accreditation such as APM, PMI, MoP, or P3O