PMO Analyst/Portfolio Analyst London, England
Job description
The Virgin group - a unique group of companies changing business for good, giving customers more choice and better service whilst having fun along the way. Taking bold from finance to health to travel to space. What these companies haven’t been before is truly connected...that is, until Virgin Red was created.
Ooh, I’m intrigued
Virgin Red is about rewarding customers for living a life more Virgin. Customers are able to earn and spend a new kind of currency, Virgin Points, across a wide range of partners and Virgin companies - giving them access to both everyday rewards and a curated list of exclusive experiences. And by being the hub connecting the Virgin companies we can get a deeper understanding of our customers and open up new opportunities for our partners.
It’s bold, unique and customer experience driven - Virgin in a nutshell.
Tell me more
The work pace is fast, the business is evolving, challenges are plentiful, and our expectations are high. But if all that’s ok with you we live up to our Virgin Red purpose of Rewarding Relationships... fancy unlimited holiday and weekly yoga? It’s all part of the Virgin Red package. Plus, we have our inclusion, wellbeing and Points with Purpose strategy in place and being developed further as we speak - we’re starting as we mean to go on.
Some of the benefits we can quantify - healthcare and dental schemes; a free full health assessment after 1 year and pension contributions up to 6% of salary.
...And some we can’t - membership of Tribe, our Virgin group wide discount scheme; flexible working; ‘Welcome to Virgin Red’ points and access to our employee points purchase scheme. These ones you just have to put your own value on!
The role:
The PMO Analyst/Portfolio Analyst will support the development and establishment of the Portfolio Management Office that sits across the Virgin Red Portfolio. The portfolio includes programmes and projects that deliver on our strategic priorities, organisational development, business process and self-service automation, finance and other internal business tools and services.
Key responsibilities:
- Work with the Head of PMO and Delivery Leadership team to support the creation, development and establishment of the Portfolio Management Office that sits across the portfolio.
- Provide a quality assurance service across the company’s portfolio to ensure that the delivery framework and processes are adhered to.
- Provide a centre of excellence services to the portfolio delivery community.
- Produce reports and dashboards for the Executive team and stakeholders on delivery plans and status.
- Support the development and embedding of the delivery framework providing governance and control throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Provide planning support across the portfolio and updating the portfolio plans.
- Support the creation, development, delivery and embedding of financial management processes.
- Support in the development and delivery of risk, issue and dependency management processes.
- Support in the development of the PPM tool - Monday.com.
- Provide co-ordination and administration to the resource management processes.
- Provide administrative support to delivery framework governance meetings including meeting setup, minutes and action logging and tracking.
For this role we need you to be/have:
- A demonstrable understanding of project/ programme delivery life cycle.
- Demonstrable understanding and ability to articulate the value and impact of PMO to a company’s portfolio.
- Excellent planning skills with the ability to work methodically and accurately whilst keeping to deadlines.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong relationship building skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative and without supervision.
- Problem-solving skills with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Proven experience of working in Programme or Portfolio analyst/ support functions.
- Experience of working in fast paced environments.
- Experience of supporting all PMO processes.
- Experience of using project management methodologies and a working knowledge of both waterfall and agile delivery approaches.
- Experience of using SharePoint, Confluence and JIRA.
- Excellent working knowledge of Office 365 applications (Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
- Experience in using Monday.com is desirable.
- P3O qualification is desirable.
- Project Management qualification is desirable.
Are you ready to join a brand that is passionate about dreaming big and changing business for good?
Some of the attributes that define a Virgin person just can’t be quantified in words. We pride ourselves on welcoming people from all walks of life, with all sorts of skill sets. Most recently, Virgin successfully campaigned to add ‘Dyslexic Thinking’ as a skill on LinkedIn. Any uniqueness is a strength and will be considered an asset to our workforce.
If you're excited about making every day more rewarding and think you have what we're looking for, even if you don’t tick every box on the job description, we'd love to hear from you.
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