Senior PMO Analyst

Your New role
We currently have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Programme Management Office Analyst to join our team Bedford. Within this role, you will be ensuring the quality and completeness of programme data and delivering accurate and timely reporting to decisionmakers. The role provides a key interface between scheme development and delivery teams and ensures that the impacts of decisions are fully assessed and understood.

This is a 12 month maternity cover position.

What you’ll be leading on
- Lead development, design and delivery teams in the maintenance of accurate and complete project and programme data and information. In accordance with Highways England reporting requirements, review the quality, completeness and integrity of data uploadedto Highways England business management systems
- In accordance with Highways England governance policies and reporting cycles, develop and deliver timely and accurate analytical reports enabling effective management of project and programme scope, cost, schedule, outputs and efficiencies. Rigorously evaluateand challenge reporting to ensure quality and completeness. Understand and highlight where information contained in reports has wider implications for programme success. Be prepared to develop and deliver bespoke reports on request.
- Lead project and programme governance meetings including Project and Programme Board and Management Meetings, Scheme and Stage Gate Reviews and Working Day Round meetings. Develop and deliver analysis, insights and recommendations to decision makers includingDirectors and Senior Managers.
- Oversee registers of project and programme risks, opportunities and issues, and manage monthly reviews in accordance with Highways England governance policies. Working with project development & delivery teams, ensure that effective risk and issue managementactions are recorded and completed within agreed timelines.
- Oversee registers of project and programme changes and manage monthly reviews in accordance with Highways England governance policies.
- Manage and enable business planning processes, ensuring that complete and accurate baselines with appropriate budgets are developed.

To be Successful
- Experience within Programme Management Office dealing with high volumes schemes
- Extensive knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel
- Knowledge of P6 Primavera is desirable
- Analytical skills
- Excellent communications skills

A bit about us
Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.

Why you should join us
At Highways England we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do betterand actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation

And finally

**About Us** At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times. Please waituntil the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.

We also offer:

- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are:

- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme