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Job overview

Location
Coventry-Binley Business Park, Hybrid
Working HoursHours:
35
Closing Date
07 Oct 2024
Advertising Salary:Salary Details:
Up to £40,000 (depending on experience)

Summary

About the role

Coventry Building Society have a great opportunity for a Portfolio Management Officer (PMO) to join our Chief Information Digital Office (CIDO) area.

The role holder will facilitate and drive the co-ordination of activities across multiple agile teams, ensuring adherence to operational standards within the development lifecycle of CIDO Portfolios. The PMO will support the Strategic Value Case production across a broad scope of programmes and transformation activities across the agile release trains (ARTs).

Working closing and collaborating with the Central PMO team and Senior Portfolio Management Officer (SPMO), and Release Train Engineer (RTE) as well as working with their respective teams within ART teams as appropriate. This role will provide input on the ART set by Product Managers to tracking the objectives and goals on the work that has been delivered by the trains.

The PMO will collaborate with the Central PMO team, their Senior PMO and their Trains/Teams to implement the CIDO metrics needed to assess progress, including ensuring minimum data quality standards and adherence to the centralised Delivery Framework. They will ensure that periodic assurance health checks are undertaken with Trains/Teams for continuous adherence to defined governance standards.  They will also provide day-to-day support around risks, dependencies, trackers for finances and resources, prep for quarterly PI Planning events, and similar activities in line with the PMO Service Catalogue.

Our benefits include:

  • 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
  • Annual discretionary bonus scheme
  • Personal pension with matched contributions
  • Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

About you

You’ll have the ability to build relationships, influence, and work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders. With a working knowledge of effective governance and assurance, with an outline understanding of Scaled Agile Framework and/or other agile delivery.

You’ll have the ability to communicate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences to help decision making and visualise dependencies. Be comfortable with ambiguity and be able to handle the unexpected with flexibility. As well as using dashboards, to analyse data and present it in a way that tells a story.

You’ll also be confident in understanding value realisation frameworks, have a proven track record of working with a cross-functional process or IT delivery team in a large Enterprise environment. Excellent written, verbal communication and analytical skills across all stakeholder groups.

About us

As a mutual, we’ve always worked together to improve the lives of others. As one of the largest building societies in the UK, over 3,000 of us share that goal, in our branches and Head Office. Our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and total support for our wellbeing.

We’re serious about race, age, faith, disability, sexual orientation, and equity for all. By being yourself, you’ll make us stronger.

You can build so much more than a career. Come and make a difference in our Society, that’s been voted a ‘Great Place to Work’ by our team.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

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