PMO (6 month FTC)

Coventry Building Society have a great opportunity for a Portfolio Management Officer (PMO) to join our Chief Information & Digital Office (CIDO) area.

You will facilitate and drive the co-ordination of activities across multiple agile delivery teams, ensuring adherence to standards within the development lifecycle of our CIDO Portfolios.  You’ll work closely and collaborate with the Central PMO team and a Senior Portfolio Management Officer (SPMO), as part of a wider CIDO PMO team of around 20 people.

Your key stakeholders will include Release Train Engineers (RTEs) and their respective teams within your Portfolio’s Agile Release Trains (ARTs).  This role will support and provide inputs to the ARTs set by Product Managers, including tracking the objectives and goals on the work that has been delivered by the Trains.

You will collaborate with the Central PMO team, the Senior PMO and the Trains/Teams to implement the CIDO metrics needed to assess progress, including ensuring minimum data quality standards and adherence to the centralised Delivery Framework.  You will ensure that periodic assurance health checks are undertaken with Trains/Teams, for continuous adherence to defined governance standards.  You will also provide day-to-day support around risks, dependencies, trackers for finances and resources, prep for quarterly PI Planning events, and similar activities in line with the PMO Service Catalogue.

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)

You’ll have the ability to build relationships, influence, and work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, with a working knowledge of effective governance and assurance, and an outline understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and/or other agile delivery.

To be successful in this role, it’s essential that you’re able to demonstrate:

• The ability to communicate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences to help management decision-making.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to handle the unexpected with positivity and flexibility.
• The ability to use dashboards to analyse data, identify issues and trends, and present it in a way that tells a story.
•  Excellent written and verbal communication, and analytical skills across all stakeholder groups.
• A forward-looking, proactive mindset, and the ability to solve problems and own tasks through to completion.

• PMO experience providing close, day-to-day support to change delivery teams.
• A proven track record of working with a cross-functional processes or IT delivery teams in a large Enterprise environment.

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)