PMO Specialist London, England
Job description
PMO Specialist
This role requires a strategic and analytical mindset and excellent communication and stakeholder management skills to collaborate with CFU and Digital stakeholders effectively. The PMO Specialist role is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and experienced PMO professional to significantly impact our organization's success, as the successful candidate will be working on some of the biggest portfolios in BT. This role can be based in any of our London, Bristol, Ipswich, or Birmingham offices with an opportunity for hybrid working (3 days in the office and 2 days wherever you like).
- Owning the PMO Relationship with key programmes & portfolios. This will provide one single point of contact for all demand driven by those units.
- Owning the annual planning and subsequent change management process, ensuring that all impacts are understood across the business.
- Owning the ways of working with our partners to ensure we have a process that works for us but also for other areas in BT.
- Providing monthly reporting and insight across the portfolios and programmes, focusing mainly on critical changes and future impacts across the organisation.
- Ensuring data completeness and challenging portfolios & programmes to drive insight.
- Working closely with our commercial and internal portfolios to ensure that our spend is being monitored monthly and processes are in place to prevent us from working on an activity that is not funded.
- A strong focus on improving the processes to be the best they can be for us and our customers.
- Solution-focused achiever - you identify and implement plans to overcome obstacles and achieve ambitious goals.
- Strong leadership skills
- Experience working on project governance within an Agile environment.
- Proven experience in project, programme, and portfolio management, focusing on financial management.
- Commercial thinker - you develop and implement ideas that benefit our business, using your understanding of internal commercial insight and the latest external thinking.
- Data analytics skills- the ability to coordinate and establish the development and use of project data analytics to make decisions.
- Be agile - ability to lead collaborative ways of working and continuous improvement.
- Previous experience in change management and process improvement.
- Team coach - ability to build high-performing cultures within teams, empowering, supporting, coaching, and carrying out development activities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively manage and influence senior stakeholders.
- Ability to collaborate to identify how work activities across teams are related and highlight inefficiencies.
- Competitive salary
- 10% on target bonus
- BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
- 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
- Huge range of flexible benefits including cycle to work, healthcare, season ticket loan
- World-class training and development opportunities
- Discounted broadband, mobile and TV packages
- Access to 100’s of retail discounts including the BT shop
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding. We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’ We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development. This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
