We are recruiting for a Senior PMO Manager to join our growing team in our Cape Town office which is based near Observatory. This role is being offered on a full time basis.
This is a key position within Transformation and Operations where you will be working with stakeholders across the firm, including Directors and Partners to establish and lead a centre of excellence for portfolio governance and delivery assurance.
The Senior PMO Manager will act as the ‘air traffic control’ for all activity entering and on the operational change runway, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, structured and resourced appropriately from inception through to completion. The role will ensure the portfolio delivers best practice, owning and embedding all governance frameworks, processes and documentation for change delivery, with a strong emphasis on strategic alignment, benefits realisation, risk and issue management and both delivery assurance and readiness.
TLT Resourcing Ltd is a subsidiary of TLT LLP (‘TLT’), an award-winning UK-based law firm with a reputation for its innovative approach to delivering legal services.
We’re looking for thoughtful professional who brings both depth and perspective. You’re someone who can see the big picture while staying grounded in the details. You’ve built your expertise over time, and now you’re ready to collaborate in a way that lifts others up.
You’re not just skilled - you’re curious, adaptable, and committed to making legal work more accessible and impactful. You know how to navigate complexity, communicate clearly, and build trust across teams and clients.
If you’re passionate about using your insight to drive meaningful outcomes - and you care deeply about people along the way - we’d love to meet you.
As a Senior PMO Manager, you will:
- Quickly build the necessary trust, credibility and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Work in partnership with both the wider Transformation and Operations teams, and further stakeholders across the firm, to embed a strong culture of change governance and standards.
- Closely collaborate with the Senior Portfolio Manager to manage resource allocation across the portfolio, change requests to in-flight activity and that projects have continued alignment to the firm’s strategy.
- Establish, own and manage the implementation of both benefits and risk and issue management policies, processes, tools and techniques.
- Define and develop the governance and standards, ensuring understanding and compliance through coaching and adapting approach to most effectively land the message.
- Facilitation of the key change committees and forums.
- Provide guidance on business case creation, ensuring clear scope from the outset, strategic alignment and measurable benefits.
- Own the reporting process, identifying the various audiences’ requirements for clear and timely information, then creating the necessary templates and educating the wider teams on effective content creation.
- Strengthen the documents and templates for the project lifecycle, maintaining and developing all items, ensuring all materials, approaches and deliveries are aligned to the firm’s values, tone of voice and professional standards.
- Implementation of tools and techniques to encourage, reinforce and measure desired behaviours.
- Be a model for high quality project management standards across the firm, develop, lead and implement processes, governance and documents in line with the firm’s Operational Change Playbook.
- Strong experience in providing delivery teams with extensive guidance and support on core governance, reporting and metrics.
- Establishing robust governance, reporting and standards quickly and effectively.
- Developing and managing change, resource, risk and issue management and benefit realisation processes.
- Analytical skills to enable managing multiple priorities, and problem solving to achieve high-quality outputs.
- Strong influencing and dynamic interpersonal skills. Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and able to challenge the status quo confidently.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.
- Demonstrable understanding and awareness of different organisational change and process improvement models and approaches.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills.
- Ability to think creatively and strategically and see the big picture.
- Excellent workload management and prioritisation skills.
- Commercial awareness.
People-first culture: We believe that when people feel seen, supported, and valued, they do their best work. We foster a culture of respect, empathy, and belonging - where your voice matters and your wellbeing come first.
Inclusive environment: We welcome people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. Diversity isn’t just a value - it’s a strength.
Growth-focused: We support learning, development, and career progression. Whether you’re deepening your expertise or exploring new paths, we’ll back you.
Purpose-driven: Your work will help clients navigate legal challenges with confidence and clarity, making a real difference in their lives and businesses.
Please be aware that, as part of our recruitment process, we conduct background checks for all successful applicants. These checks cover employment and education history, identification, and relevant credit and criminal record checks.
