Senior PMO Analyst - Part Time - 22.5 hours in Warwick

We are looking for a Senior PMO Analyst to join the Rail Division and play a pivotal role in enabling successful project delivery by providing accurate, timely, and actionable insights into portfolio and project performance. This role supports decision-making by generating, validating, and tracking key performance data against delivery targets. You will also enhance the effectiveness of performance reporting by continuously improving analytical models and tools, ensuring project teams have the clarity and confidence needed to deliver outcomes efficiently and effectively.

Key Deliverables

• Implement consistent governance and controls to report project Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to key stakeholders, highlighting the risks and issues to provide an early warning mechanism of where a project needs support to enable timely intervention and increase delivery confidence.
• Utilise industry best practices, techniques, standards and Project Management tools to improve project delivery.
• Ensuring that the project's reports meet the client and business objectives.
• Defining, measuring and regular reporting against KPIs (internal and external).
• Reporting financial and resource performance internally and externally through Oracle and client reports.
• Reviewing of data and reporting of project performance throughout the project life cycle.
• Ensure correct project management methodology is adhered to by team members.
• Oversee the Portfolio Change Board, develop the agenda, arrange invites, capture and follow up on actions.
• Identifying and reporting performance deviations (forecast and actual).
• Providing constructive feedback of forecast programme progress, identifying, and giving early warning/escalation of any deviations from plan.
• Tracking contract compliance against Milestone and product success criteria.
• Develop and implement programme and project metrics to monitor and control performance.

Responsibilities

• Build effective working relationships with members of the Project Management Community, as well as senior management to ensure a pragmatic approach to delivery and appropriate application of the Telent Project Lifecycle methodology.
• Identify areas for improvement in project performance to drive continuous improvement.
• To ensure that suitable mechanisms are in place to collect the required information.
• Support project documentation requirements and management of these to ensure quality standards.
• Ensuring processes and templates are maintained in line with best practice.
• Update lessons identified register (maintained and communicated).
• Project assurance process, including early warning and escalation of planned stage gates at risk or that will be missed.
• Undertaking periodic reviews of delivery performance and progress against contractual requirements.
• Supporting programme and project rescues through hands-on development and delivery of Correction Plans.
• Running facilitated workshops (e.g., start-up, lesson sharing, requirements mapping etc).
• Conducting health-checks on programme/projects (as required/requested).

Skill Requirements

• A strong understanding of project lifecycles and recent experience of working as part of a programme management office.
• Experience within a project management office delivering multiple workstreams and technologies.
• Setup and management of internal and external reporting tools.
• Experience of reporting, minuting meetings and providing metrics and other control information to project management and senior management.
• Experience of working effectively to strict time frames, prioritising own workload with minimal guidance.

Skills/Qualifications:

• Experience with Microsoft Office products.
• Prince 2 foundation or other project management / PMO certification.
• Experience in stakeholders' management, listening and understanding requirements.
• Excellent communication skills and understanding of communication approaches, including tailoring messages to suit the audience, along with the knowledge of how to form constructive relationships with people at all levels within the organisation.
• Excellent organisational skills, time management, attention to detail and accuracy.