MARIANNE KYPRIANOU
Channel 4, Technology
Enfield,London
1
Certification
12
years of professional experience
PRINCE2-qualified PMO and delivery governance professional with proven expertise in managing complex technology and transformation portfolios across diverse sectors. Demonstrates strong PMO discipline alongside hands-on management of delivery processes, corporate risk, and resource allocation. Collaborates effectively with executives and stakeholders to translate portfolio insights into actionable strategies, ensuring sustained delivery momentum.
Work history
PMO Lead
6 Years 9 Months- Lead PMO governance and portfolio operations across Technology, providing the controls, insight and coordination needed by senior leaders and delivery teams to manage risk, resources, dependencies and project progress.
- Support portfolio delivery through clear executive-level reporting across project status, RAID, dependencies, resources and governance, enabling informed decisions and timely intervention.
- Managed Technology corporate business risks, collaborating with executives and senior risk owners quarterly to validate risk status, controls, and mitigating actions.
- Coordinate quarterly corporate risk reviews, following up with owners, challenging outdated information and ensuring risks and actions remain current and appropriately escalated.
- Collaborated with project managers, delivery teams, and corporate functions to strengthen governance, enhance data quality, and address issues impacting delivery progress.
- Coordinated portfolio processes to ensure alignment between governance requirements and delivery needs.
- Maintain oversight of cross-project dependencies, working with project and delivery leads to confirm ownership, milestones, impacts, risks and required follow-up.
- Introduced Monday.com as a portfolio/project management system, helping establish structures, processes and working practices for consistent project tracking and reporting.
- Own and coordinate the end-to-end project closure process, ensuring governance, financial, contractual, documentation, handover and operational requirements are completed before formal closure.
- Coordinated project submissions through Architecture Review Board (ARB), liaising with architecture function and Chief Architect to ensure timely reviews, approvals, and updates to project records in Monday.com.
- Provide people and resource reporting across Technology, improving visibility of permanent staff, contractors, vacancies and upcoming changes that could affect delivery.
- Manage contractor lifecycle information and controls, monitoring contract end dates and coordinating extensions, renewals and leavers with hiring managers, recruiters and relevant internal stakeholders.
Project Coordinator, IT Transformation
4 Months- Coordinated delivery information on budget, RAID, plans, change, quality and stakeholder management for director and executive-level sponsors, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Monitored project alignment to UK IT and Global PMO governance, managing plans and controls to maintain compliance with delivery standards.
- Established project documentation and governance cadence, managing change and quality arrangements while supporting issue resolution to meet required SLAs.
- Co-developed and tracked project plans, maintaining visibility of milestones, activities and delivery progress across four transformation projects.
- Created project dashboards and reports in Smartsheet, migrating two years of project documentation into a new tool while maintaining live repositories for improved accessibility.
- Supported the Project Manager across four major transformation projects spanning HR, Payroll, National Campaign and Restaurant Deployment, operating across UK, US, Croatia and India time zones.
- Head Office, London
PMO Coordinator
2 Years 8 Months- Provided portfolio and project support to the Head of PMO, producing accurate executive reporting across a portfolio of approximately 20 complex projects.
- Coordinated weekly stage reviews and programme board packs, tracking governance progression and identifying budget deviations to initiate appropriate follow-up actions.
- Developed structured approach to gather and consolidate information from 10 project managers across digital, data & finance and people workstreams, ensuring adherence to strict reporting deadlines.
- Facilitated project kick-offs and worked with workstream leads to identify and track dependencies, bottlenecks and constraints.
- Conducted Smartsheet training for project managers, programme managers and internal UK IT colleagues, while managing project tool and SharePoint access.
- Supported onboarding of new Project Managers, including process guidance, NDAs and contract administration, and trained a new PMO Coordinator.
Programme Support Officer
6 Months- Worked within a newly formed Third Party Governance programme supporting US Federal regulatory requirements for Resolution and Recovery planning.
- Engaged senior business owners to ensure timely completion of risk reporting for third-party vendors and managed escalation activity for Vendor Operational Risk Reviews.
- Managed escalation processes for two functional risk-reporting returns and Vendor Operational Risk Review, ensuring timely responses from accountable owners.
- Developed risk reporting process map, leveraging research, stakeholder engagement, and data analysis to identify accountable business owners.
- Managed data and analysis for key services and supplier contracts within programme scope on a global basis.
- Acted as Data Controller for the programme repository, improving information standards, consistency and accuracy across programme data.
- Used programme documentation, research and targeted stakeholder engagement to identify the correct business owners for key services and third-party supplier contracts.
- Conducted activities at Blackfriars location
Project Support Officer
6 Months- Delivered PMO support for Solutions & Environment Assurance, Schools & Academies, and Service Management workstreams, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
- Facilitated discussions with workstream leads to identify and manage dependencies, bottlenecks, and cross-workstream deliverables, ensuring adherence to project timelines.
- Produced governance packs and delivery updates for senior meetings in a high-pressure, time-sensitive environment and escalated issues where required.
- Oversaw change requests and document controls, managed SharePoint libraries and user permissions, streamlining programme administration.
- Westminster City Council, Victoria
Project Coordinator - PMO Office
11 Months- Co-managed migration of project information into Clarity 13.3, supporting five projects in event planning, manufacturing and IT to enhance data accessibility.
- Maintained RAID logs and tracked actions, produced programme reports, and facilitated Project Manager training and SharePoint access to ensure project alignment.
- Monitored joint-workstream deliverables against project plans and deadlines, escalating slippage and unresolved issues to the Programme Manager.
- Coordinated project meetings across five projects, assembling agendas, resolving schedule conflicts, and following up on action items to drive project progress.
- Supported three delivery areas: Solutions & Environment Assurance, Schools & Academies, and Service Management, coordinating information and actions across the workstreams.
- Reported to the Project Director and Head of PMO, investigating and analysing approximately 220 live and completed projects from legacy systems and stakeholders within a three-month deadline.
- Contributed to a six-week cross-functional project celebrating 300 years of GSK history.
Skills
PMO & Portfolio Governance
Governance & Delivery Assurance
Executive & Portfolio Reporting
Corporate Business Risk Management
RAID & Dependency Management
Resource & Contractor Lifecycle Management
Budget
Forecast & Financial Tracking
Project Tool Implementation & Adoption
Agile Delivery Environments
Architecture Governance & ARB Coordination
Project lifecycle management
Project scheduling
Cross-functional Team Coordination
Stakeholder engagement
Change
Quality & Business Readiness
Process Design & Continuous Improvement
PRINCE2 Foundation
Monday.com
Smartsheet (Administrator level)
Clarity (Advanced)
MS Project
Excel
SharePoint
Visio
Word
PowerPoint
EPM (Enterprise Project Management)
Capita
Zahara
Certification
PRINCE2 Foundation
QUALIFICATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
- Monday.com
- Smartsheet (Administrator level)
- Clarity (Advanced)
- SharePoint
- Visio
- MS Project
- Excel
- Word
- PowerPoint
- EPM (Enterprise Project Management)
- Promaster
- M-World
- Capita
- Cedar
- Saffron
- Zahara
ADDITIONAL CAREER EXPERIENCE
- Project & Change Management Coordinator | Ford Financial FCE Bank plc | Jul 2013 - May 2014
- PMO Analyst | Lloyds TSB, Group IT, London | Nov 2012 - Jun 2013
- Project Coordinator | Amnesty International, London | May 2012 - Aug 2012
- PMO Coordinator, Business Program Office | Metropolitan Housing Partnership | Oct 2010 - Apr 2012
- Earlier career: Voids Administrator, Wandsworth Council | Volunteer, Nightingale Cancer Trust | Administrator, Hackney Council Children Services | Employer Liaison Officer, Learning and Skills Council
Timeline
PMO Lead
Channel 4, Technology
2020.01 - 2026.10Read More
Project Coordinator, IT Transformation
McDonald's UK
2020.01 - 2020.05Read More
PMO Coordinator
McDonald's UK IT
2017.04 - 2019.12Read More
Programme Support Officer
BNY Mellon
2016.10 - 2017.04Read More
Project Support Officer
Tri-borough Managed Services Programme
2015.12 - 2016.06Read More
Project Coordinator - PMO Office
GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) plc
2014.06 - 2015.05Read More