Technology PMO Analyst

Job description / Role

Role purpose

The Vodafone UK D&IT Delivery team has undergone a period of rapid change, necessitating the need for an experienced PMO Analyst. You'll be joining a dynamic functional model partnering with a portfolio to maintain standards and share best practice. In this role, you will collaborate with Technology Delivery teams and Senior Management to ensure projects and initiatives are not just delivered but set up for success.

Key duties
- Collaborate with the Value & Execution Lead and PMO Leads and play a crucial role in supporting the effective planning, execution, and monitoring of projects within our organisation.
- You will possess excellent analytical skills, a keen eye for detail, and a passion for optimising project management processes.
- Ensuring that project management processes and standards are followed and optmised, whilst fostering an environment of continuous improvement.
- Ensure the real-time status of Technology Delivery milestones is meticulously tracked in the appropriate system, all while championing vigilant maintenance of risks and issues.
- Act as the linchpin in ensuring that our Technology Delivery teams adopt hybrid delivery values, aligning with the principles of SAFe.
- Facilitate regular project and program-level reporting cycles.
- Coordinate the harmonization of project and program financial reporting with governance requirements.
- Collaborate with the PMO & Transformation Manager to uphold the effectiveness of the delivery method and governance regime within the local remit of the function.
This role requires the successful candidate to ensure that programs are planned, resourced, financed, and delivered with quality via an appropriate assurance framework of standards and controls. This will be achieved through seamlessly integrating with the partnered portfolio, ensuring standards are maintained and best practices are shared across the Center of Excellence (CoE).

Key accountabilities and decision ownership (but are not limited to)

Key accountabilities and decision ownership (but are not limited to):

Methodology & Governance:
Assist in enforcing project management methodologies, standards, and best practices for consistency and efficiency across Portfolios and Programs.

Resource Management:
- Collaborate with Capacity Management to allocate resources effectively across projects, ensuring optimal utilization and workload balance. Monitor resource availability and capacity to identify potential bottlenecks or gaps.

Training:
- Conduct training sessions for Technology Delivery teams on PMO processes and tools.
- To aid the adoption of ongoing transformation.

Reporting and Communication:
- Provide weekly performance and health reports for Senior Managers to ensure projects and programs stay on track, adhering to best practice as defined by the CoE.
- Generate and analyze project performance metrics to identify trends, highlight areas for improvement, and support decision-making processes.

Requirements

Core competencies, knowledge and experience
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in a project/ PMO analyst role preferably across a mixed portfolio from large transformation to small projects.
- Excellent communication across all organisational levels.
- Highly organised, adept at managing concurrent tasks efficiently.
- Strong numerical analytical skills for effective problem-solving to identify key patterns, and discern trends.
- Showcase innovation, self-motivation, and results-driven enthusiasm, complemented by a strong aptitude for both independent work and collaborative teamwork
- Demonstrate hands-on experience in financial reporting and maintenance.
- Understanding of Waterfall methodologies desirable.
- Familiarity with SAFe concepts and principles desirable.
- Expert Excel capabilities
- PowerBI or automation experience ideal but not critical

About the Company

At Vodafone, we are known for our technology, but the truth is, it is humanity that drives our business forward. With the global pandemic raising so many questions for tech brands, it has highlighted the leading role that we need to play.

We believe that, when working together, humanity and technology can find the answers and create a better future for all.

Working at Vodafone is all about helping people feel ready to benefit from new technology. We bring the future to even the most remote places, using technology to help families in disaster zones, showing young people that a phone is not just for fun and thinking about technology that doesn’t even exist yet.