PMO Lead

Antal is a leading recruitment and HR advisory company, present in Poland since 1996 and later expanded to the Czech Republic and Hungary. Across the CEE region, it employs around 150 professionals who deliver a full range of services – from specialist and executive recruitment, employee outsourcing and HR consulting, to employer branding and market research. The company acts as a trusted partner for both employers and candidates, sharing knowledge and guiding through every stage of the talent journey.

• Significant experience leading PMO/programme office functions within complex, multi-workstream change in a regulated environment
• Strong governance, planning, RAID/dependency management, and executive reporting skills
• Strong financial management capability (forecasting, budget tracking, change control discipline)
• Advanced tooling and MI skills (e.g., JIRA/Confluence, reporting dashboards/analytics; strong Excel/PowerPoint discipline)
• Confident stakeholder management with the ability to drive alignment without formal authority
• Fluent English

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with quantum-safe/PQC programme concepts and delivery implications
• Experience supporting cyber, cryptography, or large-scale technology risk programmes
• Experience operating across global stakeholder groups and federated delivery structures

Programme governance & operating cadence:

• Own and run programme governance structure (SteerCo, working groups, interlocks), including agendas, actions, decisions, and audit trails
• Maintain the programme delivery framework: RAID, dependency management, change control, delivery standards, and consistent templates across workstreams
• Drive consistent cross-track reporting and escalation paths aligned to the programme governance model (plan, prioritise, track, escalate)

Planning, OKR tracking & management insight (MI):

• Build and maintain an integrated programme plan across the eight execution tracks
• Own programme dashboards/analytics and performance reporting, tracking progress against agreed targets and indicators
• Establish a single source of truth for programme milestones, deliverables, and benefits realisation tracking

Financial control & resource management support:

• Lead programme financial governance: budget tracking and forecasting
• Maintain resourcing and capacity views across central team roles and execution tracks; highlight gaps, constraints, and prioritisation trade-offs
• Support vendor and third-party commercial visibility as needed

Delivery assurance & controls alignment:

• Provide delivery assurance to ensure workstreams meet Client's governance and control expectations
• Coordinate cross-cutting risks and ensure mitigations are owned, time-bound, and tracked
• Ensure reporting is “SteerCo-ready”: clear narrative, data integrity, and decision prompts

Stakeholder communication & programme coordination:

• Act as the central coordination point for programme communications, ensuring consistent messaging to stakeholders across cybersecurity, business lines, architecture/engineering, technology risk stakeholders, and control functions
• Enable effective two-way reporting with delivery stakeholders to improve visibility of in-flight activity, progress, and blockers
• Support evidence readiness by ensuring metrics, artefacts, and status are well-maintained and readily available