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More about your role
As a part of our Transformation Office, the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) plays a crucial role in guiding and coaching project professionals to ensure the successful delivery of projects across the organization. As a Portfolio Management Analyst, your responsibility will be to govern the delivery of a portfolio of programs and projects, maintaining a consistent standard by following best practices and leveraging digital tools for continuous improvement and process streamlining.
Your tasks will involve utilising digital tools, managing dashboards, and ensuring projects adhere to specifications, timelines, budget constraints, and business/technical requirements. Collaborating closely with project managers, business analysts, and senior leadership, you will align initiatives with strategic goals, support successful project delivery, and identify opportunities to enhance governance practices organisation-wide.
This role will be based from home with travel required to one of our local offices as and when required. We will still be accepting applications for this role during the festive break and will be reviewing all applications upon our return to the office in January.
For more information, please download our job profile available on our website.
More about you
You will bring a wealth of experience in crafting, implementing, and integrating project management methodologies. Your leadership has been instrumental in the successful delivery of significant business-critical changes and technical projects, adhering to best practice governance principles with a keen focus on timeliness and completeness. Additionally, your skill set extends to conducting comprehensive business, systems, and process analysis, implementing improvements, and simplifying complex structures.
Your strengths lie in excellent stakeholder management and engagement, fostering robust and collaborative relationships with key business stakeholders. Furthermore, your adept project management, schedule planning, and governance skills ensure clarity for all stakeholders, outlining expectations and timelines effectively. Ideally you will have a project management qualification.
If this sounds like you then we urge you to make an application with us today!
Benefits
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:
- Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly
- Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
- Excellent holiday package – 35 days (Including bank holidays) annual leave with the option to buy or sell leave
- Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
- A bonus scheme for all colleagues at 2%
- Training and development
- Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.
What's next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.
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