Job reference 320125
PMO Analyst
Competitive salary, plus £4200 car allowance, full family private healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with serve and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Permanent, Full time
This is a Hybrid Working role with a requirement to attend our London Farringdon office two days per week, with flexibility required in line with business needs.
Be part of a team that creates and deploys innovative product solutions and leading-edge platforms across a business with a turnover of £12.7 billion. We are at the heart of Royal Mail's future. Everything we do is aimed at providing our customers with the UK’s best delivery experience and growing our market share through the continuous development of new product features and customer driven propositions.
Using your expert knowledge and experience of successfully delivering portfolio/programme/projects with dynamic planning, you’ll ensure all Product Development portfolio programmes/projects are compliant with central Royal Mail Group Transformation project governance, and local Commercial project delivery methodologies, governance, strategies, priorities and roadmaps.
About the role
• Analysing portfolio, programme and project data with extremely high attention to detail to spot errors, gaps, synergies, opportunities and risks
• Producing operating structure and process documentation, deliverable and report templates, under continuous improvement and refinement, to extremely high levels of quality
• Mapping and traceability of project information, key milestones, finances, benefits, RAG status, issues, risks, actions, and deliverable governance
• Planning – Understanding and monitoring key project, programme and portfolio milestones, baseline and actual dates, slippages, tolerances, conducting scenario planning, and publishing extract lookahead plans and long-term roadmaps
• Reporting – Generating the weekly report from automated source data to exceptional high standard and accuracy in terms of both content and aesthetic output
• Prioritisation – Appreciation and alignment to the business transformation strategy and initiative prioritisation by Sponsors and Execs
About you
To truly excel in role, you will possess the necessary skills and experience listed below –
Key Skills
• Expert knowledge of how portfolios, programmes and projects operate, PMO disciplines and both waterfalls and Agile delivery methodologies
• Strong experience of dealing with multiple workstreams and stakeholders and various levels and maintaining healthy ways of working and relationships
• Desirable - understanding of the Royal Mail products, features, and services, the USO, Royal Mail’s standing and reputation in the market, and other competitor parcel carriers
• Intermediate to advanced level MS Excel and PowerPoint. Intermediate level MS Project and Visio
Experience
• Extensive, proven experience of supporting major transformation and change programmes
• Strong experience supporting Royal Mail transformation projects, ideally in the Commercial area
Qualifications
• Qualifications desired or relevant experience covering specialisms such as Prince2®, MOP®, MSP®, P3O®, P3M3®
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.
Extra Benefits
• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be an interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.
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Closing Date: Sunday 15th December 2024. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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