Portfolio Office Analyst

Role: Portfolio Office analyst

Location : Manchester

Contract Type: Permanent

Job Family: Portfolio Office

Advantage Resourcing are recruiting for a Portfolio Office Analyst on behalf of a Smart meter telecommunications company. A successful candidate would be able to hit the ground running with experience working in a Portfolio Environment as well as using Agile and Waterfall

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Role

• Portfolio Analyst is a member of Portfolio Services Team. This team works across the core programmes to ensure visibility and end to end management of the change pipeline. The role covers a range of Portfolio functions, including planning, dependency mapping, risk/issue management, governance, reporting and change management.
• The business is seeking results-delivery focused portfolio professionals to join our exciting growing organisation and assist shape and deliver one of the largest national infrastructure projects in a generation.
• The business has complex reporting and delivery models, therefore stakeholder management, effective communication/collaborative working skills and keen price-control are key to successful delivery via recognised methodologies.
• The successful candidates will form part of Portfolio Services and provide support to the wider programme leadership.

Key Accountabilities

• Supporting senior programme leadership to effectively deliver a range of activities, to include:
• Development and continuous improvement of a simplified, effective and consistent framework across the programmes - to enable effective views of the change pipeline
• Inter-Programme planning and dependency management
• Ensuring the production and maintenance of plans related to specific programmes/releases are to the required standards and comply with the project methodology - liaising with across the programmes to ensure approach consistency and feed updates for the business'-wide collation
• Close engagement with PMs to track lower level milestones and ensuring dependencies are identified, logged, and effectively managed
• Portfolio level reporting and governance
• Develop clear road map of all key change initiatives (as defined by Head of Portfolio Office) - ensure prioritisation and decisions are clearly captured and communicated to stakeholders
• Collates materials and provides the secretariat for intra-programme governance and top level meetings
• Works with PMs to enable them to apply pragmatic governance to projects
• Drives resource profiles for the programmes to ensure core resources available from the relevant SME functions
• Sufficiently understands the content to feed high level reports to the relevant governance
• Chasing actions through to conclusion
• Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with other PMOs as appropriate to the programme - to potentially include that of the business' central , suppliers, central government, and regulators
• Additional ad-hoc project management of initiatives as required

Skills and Experiences - Essential

• Broad experience of working in project based environments utilising recognised PPM methodologies to plan, drive execution against that, manage risks and issues, and adhere to controls.
• Exceptional collaboration and relationship development/management skills including with the confidence to effectively challenge others where appropriate
• Excellent communication and drafting skills with an ability to filter/interpret technical programme updates and provide clear, concise reports for non-technical audiences
• Attention to detail and an analytical ability to help propose solutions to problems and appropriately prioritise activities
• Proficient use of MS applications including Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Visio
• Strong initiative and drive, self-motivated with an aptitude to work well under pressure and with low supervision

Skills and Experiences - Desirable

• Experience of working in a Portfolio environment
• Experience of working in a complex, fast moving environment, using agile and waterfall PPM techniques
• Experience of financial tracking and reporting against targets/budgets
• Knowledge of the Smart Energy Code and the company's Licence Conditions
• Knowledge of the Smart Metering Implementation Programme and the Company's role

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