PMO Analyst

Company Description

• For someone ambitious: Clear career path towards a Senior role
• Work closely with the PMO Manager
• Great base salary
• Full support from our Analyst and Coordinators
• Opportunity to own, shape and architect
• Support our Transformation project and AI cross business strategy.
• Up to 20% annual bonus
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts
• Role based from our offices in Cheadle 5 days p/w (SK83GW)

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £ billion loan book.

Job Description

Reporting to the PMO Manager, as the PMO Analyst, you will be an integral part of our brilliant PMO Team, who govern and enable the successful and efficient delivery of our change portfolio, from large, complex projects/programmes to more incremental product enhancements.

If you are ambitious... this role is for given a clear career path to becoming a Senior PMO. You will play a pivotal role in enforcing, and evolving, our change delivery framework and will need to build effective working relationships with both Change and Business colleagues and stakeholders, ensuring our deliverables are always valuable, insightful and meet our stakeholders’ high quality standards.

Further to supporting the development of our Change Delivery Framework you will join us during a time of Tech Transformation and exciting AI implementation programmes.

Duties include:

• Take ownership for the management and delivery of one or more core PMO services
• Execute and deliver core PMO services – often in parallel - in a controlled manner, ensuring they are delivered consistently to the highest standards and aligned to commitments made.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the Change, Group Technology Services and wider Business to embed and evolve our Change Delivery Framework and its underpinning change governance, control, process and risk management models.
• Ensure key Change portfolio artefacts, tools and/or knowledge repositories are regularly reviewed and refreshed/re-purposed etc

Qualifications

Whilst you will have day to day support from the PMO Manager and our Analyst and Coordinators, you will be expected to own, shape and architect work. Previous PMO experience is essential. We have a work at pace/ fail fast and learn environment. We celebrate learning even if that learning comes out of failure! and we need someone who thrives in that type of fast paced environment.

We don't expect you to have all of the following skills and experience! but if you recognise a good combination within your own experience, we really welcome your application:

• proven experience as a PMO Analyst / Co-ordinator
• Excellent organisation skills and ability to multitask.
• Self-motivated and logical thinker, not afraid to challenge the norm and apply a ‘test and learn’ approach to evolve and enhance processes and/or core deliverables.
• Technically proficient with portfolio management and collaboration tools, with expertise in the Microsoft suite of applications advantageous ( Azure DevOps, Sharepoint, MS Office Suite, in particular M365, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint, MS Teams etc)
• Innate ability to manage multiple demands in a dynamic, challenging environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and transform that into actionable insights
• Excellent team player who embraces an inclusive ‘one team’ approach to work, regularly demonstrating passion and drive for continuous improvement and professional self-development.
• Collaborative and inclusive approach to Stakeholder and relationship management.
• Positive and pro-active mind-set, someone who colleagues always enjoy working with.
• Coaching and mentoring skills, and ability to install and support a continuous learning culture.
• Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to diversify approach according to the target audience.

Additional Information

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.

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