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PMO Analyst
Duration - 6 Months
Location - Warwick / Remote
Summary
My high-profile Utilities client is looking for a Project supervisor PMO Analyst to join their team Based at their Warwick offices (1 day a week on site) on an initial 6-month contract with chance of extensions.
Job Purpose
Drive the PMO activities around planning, plan tracking, and RAID management in a projects and programmes.
Key Accountabilities:
- Delivery of the service catalogue offered by the DDT PMO team.
- Build and maintain relationships with Programme Teams leadership, ensuring Customer requirements are met.
- Working collaboratively with the wider PMO to drive standardisation of process, quality and cost transparency.
- Take accountability of the cadence of programme and project governance, ensuring a standard governance process are executed in the projects and programmes.
- Support wider Planning, Performance and PMO team for projects and programmes.
- Challenging Project and Programme Managers and holding them to account to meet all the Governance needs and highlight/manage any gaps in Governance.
- Providing dedicated support aligned to projects to ensure that project governance forums are run effectively, and project health is managed and monitored between forums.
- Ensure the right decisions are made within governance forums and review takes place through both presenting accurate and relevant data, and managing the stakeholders to ensure attendees are appropriate and in line with terms of reference.
- Enable Project teams to successfully pass all Stage Gates with minimal rework, and in time for releases/closure by proactively monitoring submission timelines and acting as SMEs for all Artefacts and Gate Requirements?
- Assist in maintaining scope controls by tracking and monitoring approvals for all Programme Change Requests
- Ensure accurate reporting to Ofgem by keeping track of all committed milestones against project and programme plans.
- Assist in capture and tracking of benefits and lessons learned.
- Assist in the identification and management of Programme Dependencies by running regular sessions with all owners.
Knowledge & Experience Required:
- Proven work experience as a Project Management Officer or similar role
- Strong leadership skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to details and technicalities
- Excellent organizational and technical abilities
- Good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills
- Focus on details, errorless delivery, logical reasoning.
- Searching for solutions not offenders
- A strong team player, proven team leadership potential
- Willing to step out of own comfort zone.
- Fast learner with ability to adapt to change quickly.
- Strong Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
- Knowledge of MS Project is an advantage.
- Knowledge of MS SharePoint is an advantage.