At a Glance
- Tasks: Support a defence programme by ensuring governance and delivering analytical insights.
- Company: Leidos, a global leader in science and technology solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, 33 days leave, private medical insurance, and flexible benefits.
- Other info: Hybrid role with opportunities for growth and a commitment to diversity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in defence while developing your career in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in PMO or project roles, with strong communication skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Location: Farnborough, UK (Hybrid)
Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. The foundation of our Leidos culture is our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. We are passionate about customer success by being determined to understand and respond to our customers’ needs as if they were our own.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PMO Analyst to support a defence programme based in the UK at Leidos. This is a hybrid position with some travel requirements to Cambridgeshire and Heathrow. We currently have a permanent vacancy for a PMO Analyst to work alongside the Programme Manager for Agile Change for our Government client. This position is a full time, permanent role and applicants must have DV clearance or be willing to undergo the clearance process.
This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of a large and complex programme of work, helping to successfully deliver by ensuring adherence to governance, standards and best practices. You’ll provide valuable analytical insights, manage project documentation to ensure it stays accurate and up to date and enable clear and effective reporting to support programme leadership and senior stakeholders. You will be expected to build close working relationships with the Scrum Masters and Programme Managers to support driving delivery at pace and adapt your approach to the needs of a large programme of work across multiple sites.
- Maintain (and help implement) processes to collect, monitor and analyse data to support financial and resource management and planning across the programme.
- Develop, manage or maintain high quality reports, dashboards and performance metrics to support senior leadership decisions and forecasting, ensuring outputs are timely, accurate and aligned with governance cycles.
- Support the design and delivery of engaging, user-friendly dashboards and reports using tools such as Power BI and Excel.
- Support PM and Engineers with scoping Work Packages with clearly defined inputs and outputs, risks, assumptions, dependencies.
- Appreciation of Risk Management through robust mitigations and burn down tracking.
- Support key programme stakeholders to triage contract changes ensuring new work proposals are developed at pace.
You will be self-motivated and able to work autonomously to achieve day to day objectives with significant results on project or operational deliverables. You should demonstrate experience in a PMO, QA or Project role successfully delivering PMO outputs. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, with demonstrable experience in document writing, reporting, presenting, facilitating and requirements gathering.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Apps (Such as Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, MS Project, Teams, Outlook). Qualifications in recognised project management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2 Foundation, APM PMQ) or equivalent experience (2+ years) in a project/PMO environment with demonstrable delivery experience. Experience working on an Agile Programme.
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance. We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent.
Commitment to Diversity: We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.
