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Senior PMO leadership without the full headcount
Fractional PMO Director
2-to-4-day-a-week PMO director presence for scale-ups and growth-stage firms who need senior judgement on programme governance but don't yet need a full-time hire.
What it is
The summary.
Senior PMO leadership presence on a fractional retainer. Your portfolio gets reviewed, risks get challenged, vendor decisions get sanity-checked, and executive comms get pre-flighted, all by someone who's done this at scale and isn't trying to politic their way to a full-time job.
What you get
Deliverables.
- Weekly portfolio reviews
- Monthly executive narrative + scorecard
- Vendor / partner sanity reviews
- Programme manager coaching
- Quarterly steering committee participation
How it runs
Process.
- Week 1. Onboarding Read-in on current portfolio, stakeholder map, recent decisions, existing artefacts.
- Ongoing. Cadence Weekly 2-hour portfolio review plus ad-hoc consultancy on burning issues. Monthly written narrative for exec readout.
- Quarterly. Strategic Half-day deep dive. Capability gaps, vendor health, capacity outlook, year-end risk view.
Track record
Outcomes from past engagements.
- Senior PMO judgement without the FTE commitment
- Catches problems 2-4 weeks earlier than internal review cadence
- Reduces vendor over-promising materially
- Programme managers level up faster
Fit check
Ideal for.
- Series B/C with 3-8 active programmes and no head of PMO
- Mid-market firms post-acquisition needing portfolio integration governance
- Programme directors on parental leave or transition
What clients said
We brought Varun in as a fractional PMO director when our portfolio scaled past our internal capacity. The weekly portfolio reviews flagged risks our PMs hadn't yet seen, and the monthly exec narrative replaced what used to be 4 different decks pulled together at the last minute. Clean operating cadence within 6 weeks.