PMO (12 months)

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 closely and collaborating with the Central PMO team, the Senior Portfolio Management Officer (SPMO), and Release Train Engineer (RTE), as well as working with their respective teams within the Trains 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, manage trackers for finances and resources, prep for quarterly PI Planning events, and similar activities in line with the PMO Service Catalogue.

We operate on a team led hybrid approach with this role requiring the successful candidate to be on site 1-2 days a week in the Coventry office.

To be successful in this role it’s essential you have:

• You’ll have the ability to build relationships, influence, and work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.
• With a working knowledge of effective governance and assurance
• In addition you’ll have experience of Financial and Resource Management processes.
• Be comfortable with ambiguity and be able to handle the unexpected with flexibility
• You’ll have the ability to communicate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences to help decision making and visualise dependencies;,
• as well as using dashboards to analyse data and present it in a way that tells a story.

Desirable experience will be:

• with an outline understanding of Scaled Agile Framework and/or other agile delivery.
• Excellent written, verbal communication and analytical skills across all stakeholder groups.
• You’ll also be confident in understanding value realisation frameworks,
• have a proven track record of working with cross-functional processes or IT delivery teams in a large Enterprise environment.
• Knowledge of Jira

Full time - 35 Hours

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others.

We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers, and colleagues.

We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

All together, better.

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. 

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

If you would like to opt in to the scheme please contact our recruitment team when you apply via Get in touch - Coventry Building Society (coventrycareers.co.uk)