Senior PMO (12 month FTC)

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.

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

• You’ll have excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels up to Senior Manager level; with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience of working on large scale programmes, setting up PMO functions from scratch and working with 3rd parties.
• Previous experience of planning and organising. Extensive experience of process analysis, definition, and documentation, having worked within Scaled Agile Framework and/or other agile delivery.
• Proven knowledge of delivery control frameworks e.g. Risk Management, Dependency Management and Delivery Frameworks.
• You’ll be 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.

Desirable skills for this role are:

• Excellent written, verbal communication and analytical skills across all stakeholder groups.
• Ability to interpret dashboards; ability to analyse data and present it in a way that tells a story and provide insight to all audiences to influence decision making and understanding of dependencies.

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)