Portfolio Management Office Lead

6 months ago


Heathrow, United Kingdom British Airways Full time

As the nation’s flag carrier, we take great pride in connecting Britain with the world and the world with Britain.

It’s something we’ve been doing for over 100 years, ever since we launched the world’s first international scheduled air service between London and Paris.

This originality has been in our blood since day one. It’s the spirit we share with the people that fly with us, our partners, and our colleagues.

So, whether you are a reassuring voice on the end of a phone, a smile at the door, under a wing keeping the turbines spinning or landing us gently in far-flung places, a job at British Airways is yours to make.

We know great things can happen when you’re inspired to think big and bring your ambition to work every day, which is why, at British Airways the sky is never the limit.

**The role**:
A new role has arisen for a 12-Month Fixed-Term, full time Portfolio Management Office Lead to join the team at BA. You will be supporting specific programmes within the BA Roadmap, including the coordination of impact assessments of changes to their programme(s), collation of costs, resource and budget planning and forecasting and supports demand of work against that plan.

**What you’ll do**:
To be successful in the role, the role holder will be expected to:

- Work to continuously improve PMO procedures and processes, building on industry standard methodology
- Coordinate change requests related to their specific programme(s) including resource, cost, scope and time/duration assessment and support in the creation of recommendation(s) to steering committee(s)
- Responsible for the ongoing cadence & governance, and maintenance of specific elements of the programme(s) plan(s).
- Identify potential interdependencies between teams, over and under utilisation across the programme(s) resource pools.
- Maintain the programme(s) resource demand forecast based on direction from the Programme and Portfolio Manager and the programme plan
- Monitor and report on resource levels of all resource pools working on their assigned programme(s), including planning, estimating and risk mitigation activities where applicable
- Support the scoping and mobilising of programmes and projects, including costs, time and resource estimation.
- Quality assure the specific elements of their assigned programme(s).
- Manage and monitor specific risk, issues, assumptions and dependencies in their assigned programme(s). Raising to the Programme and Portfolio Manager.

**What you’ll bring to British Airways**:
Good effective communication, influencing at a team level (written and verbal) and successfully manage expectations
- Demonstrable experience of successful delivery of portfolio
- management office lead activities within specific programmes
- Experience of working on Business Transformation Programmes highly desirable.
- Ability to effectively influence individuals & teams (direct/indirect), working to deliver results.
- Works well independently and as part of a team
- Champions a one team approach across their programme(s)
- Ability to work under pressure and manage issues creating, seeking guidance and clarity where necessary
- Resource planning, scheduling and forecasting
- Budget tracking and consolidation
- Benefits tracking and consolidation
- External and internal resource coordination
- Ability to facilitate Programme Meetings
- Risk Management
- Provide Value Assurance activity around the Programme
- Ability to implement plans to overcome obstacles and achieve goals

**Your experience**:
Portfolio Management Office qualification (P3O).
- Degree qualification is advantageous but not essential or equivalent experience.
- Professional Project Management accreditation desirable e.g. Prince2/APMP (Association of Project Management Professionals)
- Agile methodology (SAFe) desirable

**What we offer**:
We believe that all the people who work with us should feel valued for the part they play. It’s one of the reasons our rewards go far beyond a competitive salary.

From the day you join us, you’ll get access to brilliant staff travel benefits including unlimited basic and premium standby tickets on British Airways flights. You’ll also receive up to 30 discounted ‘Hotline’ airfares per year for yourself, friends, and family.

At British Airways you’ll have the chance to take on new challenges and move forward in a way that feels right for you. We encourage all those who work for us to consider opportunities right across our business to help you develop and progress.

We never stand still, and we don’t expect our people to either.

**Inclusion & Diversity**:
At British Airways we all have a part to play in creating an inclusive place to work. Diverse representation among our people is really important to us and we recognise that all our colleagues are uniquely different and bring their own originality, creativity and identity to work.

Inclusion and diversity is a key driver of innovation and we’re com



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