PMO Lead

Brighton, London or Staines

Permanent

Competitive salary + 10% bonus + benefits

Full time: 35 hours per week

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Bupa Global is the international health insurance division of Bupa. We provide customers who want premium international coverage with products and services to access the healthcare they need anytime, around the world, whether at home or when studying, living, travelling or working abroad.

The role

As Portfolio Management Office Lead (PMO Lead) you’ll lead, embed, and facilitate the Change and Transformation Framework, i.e. ‘the system of change’, balancing the requirement for rigour and controls with proportionate, facilitative governance, underpinned by a high standard of portfolio reporting and insight. You’ll be integral to building a culture of continuous improvement, providing facts, data and insight across the system of change, identifying and adopting changes that result in efficiencies, improved quality and alignment with best practice, enabling the articulation and measurement of business outcomes and how value flows through the system. You’ll be key to driving consistency, predictability, and efficiency of the BG transformation and change capability, driving best practice, adherence to standards, and ensuring continuous improvement is native to how the portfolio operates.

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Leading on developing and maintaining delivery and governance standards across the Portfolio, driving business and delivery agility, ensuring these standards are adhered to through peer review and process confirmation.
• Ensuring the provision of a high standard of data accuracy, quality and ‘good housekeeping’ across the suite of software tools underpinning portfolio delivery, ensuring ‘single picture of the truth’ and data fidelity.
• Providing developmental support and effective performance management across the PMO function.
• Establishing and maintaining strong, effective, and trusted relationships with key stakeholders across Bupa Global, and wider Bupa businesses.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Proven track record of operating in a diverse, scaled, change delivery environment.
• Well-developed Leadership and people management skills.
• Experience of capability development through a range of tools and techniques e.g. coaching, mentoring, capability mapping, maturity models.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Emphasis on attention to detail and accuracy, strive to identify and drive business improvement.
• Hold a recognised change delivery and/or portfolio management qualification e.g. MoP, APMP, PRINCE2, Agile Project Management or equivalent.
• Familiarity with the use and optimisation of Portfolio Management software and tooling.

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
• Annual performance-based bonus.
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available.
• Various other benefits and online discounts.

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

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About Us

Be at the heart of helping people live longer healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We employ more than 80,000 people globally who are making this a reality. If you've got the belief, the drive and the talent to help us in our ambition then we’d like to hear from you. Wherever you work, one thing stands out about Bupa people. Our customers are our passion – they’re at the heart of our positively different culture of care. At Bupa you’ll be challenged, you’ll be encouraged to innovate, and collaborate with colleagues who are committed to delivering exceptional experiences. We trust, respect and consider everyone, knowing your difference will make the difference.

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