Project (PMO) Specialist in Cambridge

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

Our PMO Midlands team is looking to expand its Controls community. We are a close-knit team and we’re looking to welcome passionate and ambitious candidates across all our professional, senior professional and managerial grades who will support our early careers, grow into leadership roles and bring their skills and expertise to our communities of practice, fostering our values with specific emphasis to Bringing out the best in Everyone.

With exciting growth in the region including new Major Programmes, Projects and Clients, we’re looking for flexible and mobile Planning and Scheduling / Performance Reporting / Risk Management candidates to deliver services in our local region. Travel within the Midlands is required, dependent on the project and can be discussed further during the recruitment process.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Tailoring reporting processes to meet the client's needs and aligning with best practice.
• Delivering performance and reporting management plans for our clients based on project requirements, maturity, and best practice.
• Promoting the benefits and requirements of Performance Reporting & Analytics within the project and programme team.
• Implementing, administering, and maintaining reporting systems and procedures to track project controls performance.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, integrated, well-structured, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) and support the change control process.
• Rolling out reporting calendars to ensure a consistent drumbeat of performance data and sufficient time to assure and analyse outputs.
• Working with project controls to define requirements and data flows for information management systems and supporting our digital teams in their implementation.
• Leading the development, analysis and maintenance of corporate datasets.
• Providing guidance and advice on data quality issues to a wide variety of data providers.
• Leading material preparation for governance through projects, programmes, portfolios and the enterprise.
• Identifying performance recovery recommendations for relevant stakeholders and management to support effective decision making.
• Supporting the project team to develop, embed KPIs and contribute to the development of the performance measures dictionary.
• Developing project performance reports and dashboards, providing recommendations to relevant stakeholders and management to support effective decision making.
• Leading preparation of presentations and other materials for client governance forums and performance reviews.
• Contributing towards our national and regional performance & reporting communities including Communities of Practice.
• Training and coaching clients and less experienced team members on performance and reporting management processes and practices.

Qualifications:

• Experience in a project or programme environment is essential.
• An understanding of how other aspects of Project Controls (Scheduling, Cost Control, Change Control) interact with Reporting.
• Demonstrable track record in identifying reporting and data requirements and documenting these using the appropriate types of tools and documentation.
• Awareness of Project Controls software (Primavera P6, Active Risk Manager, Ecosys etc) is desirable.
• Experience in using data analysis tools (e.g. Power BI).

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.