Need an experienced PMO Manager now?
Bring senior PMO leadership into your organisation within days, to cover a leadership gap, strengthen a major transformation, stabilise governance and reporting, or lead a complex integration.
Dale Porter is available for interim, fractional and embedded assignments, backed by HotPMO’s wider specialist team and delivery toolkit.
Available for UK and international assignments, remotely or hybrid. Engagements from two to five days per week.
Senior PMO capacity when the situation cannot wait
Dale can step into an existing organisation, establish control quickly and work with executives, delivery teams and suppliers to turn ambiguity into a practical operating rhythm.
Cover a leadership gap
Maintain governance, reporting and decision-making while recruiting or onboarding a permanent Head of PMO or PMO Manager.
Stabilise an under-pressure PMO
Restore confidence in portfolio information, clarify priorities, improve escalation and create a workable governance cadence.
Mobilise a major transformation
Establish the PMO structure, controls, reporting and delivery routines required for a complex digital, cyber, ERP or business transformation.
Lead integration after acquisition or carve-out
Coordinate executive sponsors and multiple workstreams across technology, finance, people, compliance and operating-model change.
Meet Dale Porter
Dale is an experienced PMO, transformation and integration leader whose career spans healthcare, logistics, consulting, energy, finance, retail and education.
Dale is trusted by executive teams to translate complexity into pragmatic plans, establish governance where clarity is still forming and create momentum across geographically distributed teams.
Dale combines strategic judgement with hands-on delivery: comfortable working with boards and executive steering groups, and equally ready to take direct ownership of reporting, RAID, governance, tooling, operating rhythms and continuous improvement.
Areas of expertise
- Post-merger integration
- Global PMO leadership
- Portfolio governance and reporting
- Cybersecurity programmes
- Digital and ERP transformation
- Executive and board engagement
- Operating-model integration
- Team leadership and capability building
Professional credentials
- Chartered Manager, CMgr FCMI
- Management of Portfolios Practitioner
- PRINCE2 and portfolio-management credentials
- P3 Governance Practitioner and Assessor
- SAFe 6
- Change Management Practitioner
- ISO 9001:2015 training
Experience that translates into action
Global cybersecurity PMO
Led the PMO and CISO Office across the US, UK, Latin America, Europe and Africa.
Post-merger integration
Integrated healthcare and social-care providers in 12 months, around £2m saved.
Countries reached
A £5m digital transformation, from a UK pilot to 20 countries in 18 months.
Consultancy leadership
Founded and scaled a 150-person consultancy and managed-service provider.
Client names and detailed case studies are available during a qualified discussion, subject to confidentiality.
What can Dale take off your hands?
Leadership and control
- Interim or fractional PMO leadership
- PMO mobilisation and operating model
- Executive and board reporting
- Portfolio governance and decision cadence
- RAID, dependency and escalation management
- Prioritisation and capacity planning
- PMO team leadership and development
Transformation and integration
- Post-merger integration
- Business-unit carve-outs
- Digital, ERP and cybersecurity programmes
- Multi-supplier coordination
- Operating-model implementation
- Benefits and continuous improvement
- Governance, risk and compliance
Dale can work as a visible HotPMO consultant or as part of a partner’s delivery team.
A practical start, not a lengthy discovery exercise
Where a client is not ready to commit immediately to a longer assignment, HotPMO can begin with a focused ten-day mobilisation. The aim is to establish control, understand the immediate risks and agree what support is genuinely required.
Days 1–2: Understand
Meet key sponsors and delivery leads, review portfolio information and identify urgent risks, gaps and decisions.
Days 3–5: Stabilise
Establish or improve the core reporting, governance, RAID and meeting cadence needed to keep delivery moving.
Days 6–8: Align
Clarify priorities, ownership, escalation paths and the information executives need to make decisions.
Days 9–10: Recommend
Present a practical 30-day action plan and recommend the appropriate ongoing working pattern.
Price on request. HotPMO will confirm the commercial model for this mobilisation before you commit to anything.
More than an individual contractor
Dale joins the client as an embedded leader, backed throughout by HotPMO’s wider specialist capability. That gives the client continuity, additional expertise and established PMO methods without having to assemble a separate team.
Specialist PMO consultancy
PMO is HotPMO’s core discipline, not a secondary capability within a generalist consultancy.
Wider senior support
Dale can draw on HotPMO’s senior consultants for specialist input, challenge and continuity.
Ready-to-use methods and tools
Assignments can use HotPMO’s established governance assets, templates, dashboards and PMO Vault resources.
Accountable delivery
The engagement is contracted and managed through HotPMO, with clear outcomes, commercial accountability and ISO-certified management systems.
Contracted and delivered under HotPMO’s ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2022 certified management system.
Flexible support matched to the need
Fractional PMO leadership
Two or three days per week for organisations that need experienced leadership without a full-time interim appointment.
Full interim cover
Four or five days per week to take operational ownership during recruitment, restructuring or a critical phase of delivery.
Defined mobilisation or transformation assignment
A fixed initial period focused on establishing a PMO, stabilising delivery, integrating an acquisition or strengthening a major programme.
Assignments can be structured around clear outcomes, a defined period or an agreed number of days per week.
Tell us what needs to be stabilised, mobilised or led
A short initial conversation will establish the situation, urgency, required working pattern and whether Dale is the right fit. If not, HotPMO will say so directly.
No obligation. No generic sales presentation. A direct discussion about the requirement and whether HotPMO can help.
Frequently asked questions
How quickly can Dale start?
Dale’s current availability is confirmed in the initial conversation. HotPMO is prioritising assignments that need support within days or weeks rather than several months.
Can Dale work part-time?
Yes. Fractional arrangements of two or three days per week can be considered alongside fuller interim assignments.
Does Dale work remotely or on site?
Remote, hybrid and on-site arrangements can be discussed, based on location, assignment needs and travel expectations.
Can Dale work through a consultancy or delivery partner?
Yes. HotPMO supports direct client engagements, partner-led delivery and appropriate white-labelled subcontract arrangements.
Is this a recruitment service?
No. Dale is part of HotPMO’s consulting team. The client contracts with HotPMO for defined embedded leadership and delivery support.
Can the assignment expand to include other PMO roles?
Yes. HotPMO can add analyst, specialist consulting, assessment, training or toolkit support where there is a clear need.