Director PMO

The Development Department

The Development team plays a crucial role in the success of the HSCALE product, ensuring the successful establishment, powering, reporting and monitoring, procurement, construction and commissioning of data centre campuses, through to seamless handover to operations. The power team ensures that data centres have a reliable and scalable power supply, coordinating with utility providers and integrating renewable energy sources where possible. They design and implement power distribution systems that meet the high demands of data centre operations, all the while considering how to “commercialise” HSCALE’s power infrastructure.

Position Overview

The Director PMO will lead and continuously develop HSCALE’s programme management capability across our development portfolio.

You will provide executive-level visibility of programme performance and establish the governance, methodologies, controls and reporting required to manage delivery against time, cost, quality and risk.

Working closely with Development leadership and stakeholders across Finance, Construction, Procurement, Technology, Operations and the wider executive team, you will ensure that our growing portfolio is appropriately prioritised, governed and resourced.

This is a highly visible leadership role requiring someone who can combine strategic portfolio oversight with strong delivery discipline in a fast-moving infrastructure environment.

• Significant experience leading PMO, programme management or portfolio management within data centres, mission-critical infrastructure, major construction, real estate development or another complex capital-project environment.
• A strong track record of managing or overseeing large-scale, multi-project capital programmes with complex schedules, budgets, dependencies and stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrable experience establishing or significantly developing PMO governance, controls, reporting and stage-gate processes.
• Strong understanding of project controls including schedule, cost, risk, change, resource planning and performance management.
• Experience translating complex programme information into clear executive-level reporting, recommendations and decisions.
• Commercial and financial understanding, including project budgets, forecasting, cash flow and cost-performance management.
• Strong stakeholder-management capability, with experience influencing senior executives as well as working across technical, commercial and operational teams.
• Proven leadership experience, including building, developing and managing project/programme management teams.
• Comfortable operating in a rapidly growing organisation where processes and governance continue to evolve alongside the business.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience in construction, engineering, property, project management or a related discipline; relevant programme/project management qualifications are advantageous.

• Significant experience leading PMO, programme management or portfolio management within data centres, mission-critical infrastructure, major construction, real estate development or another complex capital-project environment.
• A strong track record of managing or overseeing large-scale, multi-project capital programmes with complex schedules, budgets, dependencies and stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrable experience establishing or significantly developing PMO governance, controls, reporting and stage-gate processes.
• Strong understanding of project controls including schedule, cost, risk, change, resource planning and performance management.
• Experience translating complex programme information into clear executive-level reporting, recommendations and decisions.
• Commercial and financial understanding, including project budgets, forecasting, cash flow and cost-performance management.
• Strong stakeholder-management capability, with experience influencing senior executives as well as working across technical, commercial and operational teams.
• Proven leadership experience, including building, developing and managing project/programme management teams.
• Comfortable operating in a rapidly growing organisation where processes and governance continue to evolve alongside the business.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience in construction, engineering, property, project management or a related discipline; relevant programme/project management qualifications are advantageous.