Senior PMO (6-month FTC)

Coventry Building Society have an exciting new role for a Senior Portfolio Management Officer, supporting the Mortgages Portfolio within CIDO.

The role holder will facilitate and support multiple delivery disciplines within the portfolio, including risks, dependencies, finances,and resources, ensuring adherence to best practices. Working in close collaboration with distributed and central PMO colleagues and the CIDO delivery community (all levels) to support effective change delivery and implement metrics needed to assess progress. This includes ensuring adherence to minimum Data Standards, following the centralised Delivery Framework, and optimising the use of Jira.

The Senior Portfolio Management Officer helps ensure the focus is on the ‘right work’, overseeing continuous improvement and early feedback on current initiatives at a macro level, helping the Portfolio Leadership Team to make the necessary adjustments to meet its targets. The role supports coordination across the CIDO portfolios, maintaining alignment between strategy and execution, and supporting continued operational excellence.

Benefits

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)

Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society here.

You’ll be an authentic ‘servant-leader’ who takes responsibility for ensuring the team’s success ahead of your own needs, taking a coaching approach and empower others to make decisions that lead to great outcomes. You’ll be passionate about ensuring CIDO and the wider CBS business delivers great outcomes through supporting business goals and objectives, seeking to understand how decisions and dependencies impact delivery.

You’ll create a culture of continuous improvement, learning from mistakes and using this experience to change how you and the team respond to similar situations in the future. As someone who is intellectually curious, you encourage ideas, are highly self-aware and emotionally intelligent, you understand your impact on others and take time to understand all colleagues and help them to operate at their best

You’l have proven knowledge of delivery control frameworks e.g. Risk Management, Dependency Management and Delivery Frameworks. Extensive experience of process analysis, definition, and documentation, having worked within Scaled Agile Framework and/or other agile delivery.

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.