PMO Analyst

Are you an experienced PMO Analyst looking for a major career move in 2026? We are looking for an experienced PMO Analyst to join our brand-new, growing PMO! You'll be essential in supporting our Lead of PMO to drive the successful delivery of projects across the entire Tech function during an exciting digital growth phase. This role will give a driven and experienced individual the opportunity to really stretch themselves and support our Lead PMO to ensure the successful delivery of the projects and programmes across our Tech function.

You’ll be providing professional advice, guidance, and support across the project portfolio to ensure a uniform approach to Project/Product Management. Wickes are a digitally led, service enabled organisation with a vision to have a project in every home. We are more than the nation’s favourite DIY store; we are a growing multichannel organisation, with a strong culture of authenticity and innovation.

The Role

• Support the Delivery Product Managers and Heads of Product to ensure that projects are set up for success with the appropriate governance for scale and complexity of change, with regular project health checks, activities and deliverables prepared as a project progresses through the project lifecycle.
• Experience in Financial management including budgeting, forecasting, actuals and analysis.
• You’ll have exposure or knowledge of using waterfall and/or agile approaches to deliver projects and will know how to proactively identify areas for process improvement.
• You'll agree and compile regular project and programme reporting, analysing agreed KPI’s and making suggestions where needed.
• Support Head of PMO and delivery teams with escalations and decision making to overcome any issues.
• With previous knowledge and understanding of business needs in a PMO environment, you will have the ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence and work closely with key stakeholders, senior leadership, and 3rd party vendors.

Does this sound like you?

• A confident, self-starter with the ability to establish and maintain high level customer trust and confidence.
• Working at pace, with a sense of urgency and to be able to commit to high standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, customer service and business integrity.
• You will be both tenacious and methodical in your approach with excellent communication skills.
• Experience with Atlassian toolset (specifically Jira/Confluence) would be beneficial.
• Exposure to PPM tools such as Monday.com (preferred), Clarity, Planview, etc. would be advantageous.
• Wickes applies both waterfall and agile methodologies to deliver projects. Therefore experience working across these would be beneficial.

What We Can Offer You

Our unique culture means we believe in doing the right thing and helps us to win for our customers, planet and people. Together, we help you get what you want from your role, so you can make your working experience your own and experience beyond the everyday. We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that includes:

• A competitive package to include an annual bonus
• 25 Days holiday plus bank holidays
• Contributory Pension and Life Assurance
• We offer hybrid flexible working (2-3 days in Watford)
• Save-as-you-earn scheme
• 20% Colleague discount
• Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers, restaurants, savings on gym membership, cycle to work scheme and salary sacrifice car scheme.

Our widely recognised wellbeing strategy is something we’re proud of at Wickes. As part of this, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, financial education.