PMO Analyst

Overview

The PMO Analyst is a broad analytical and enabling role within the PMO team. Rather than focusing on operational coordination, this role drives quality and consistency across syndicates, programmes and projects.

Project Management

Cheltenham

• RAID Management and Assurance

  Review, analyse and report on RAID portfolios across syndicates, ensuring risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies are complete, correctly categorised, impact assessed, appropriately escalated to senior PMO who will support workshops and raise to leadership where intervention is required.

• Dependency, Benefits and Change Control

  Support the tracking of dependencies, benefits and change control activity, ensuring impacts are clearly captured, monitored and reported through the appropriate governance routes.

• Reporting, Insight and Decision Support

  Produce KPI dashboards and governance packs, providing clear findings, recommendations and insight to support decision making by the Senior PMO Analyst and programme leadership.

• Tools, Capability and Stakeholder Support

  Provide hands‑on support, troubleshooting, support the delivery of workshops and briefing sessions to build capability across the programme in PMO tools, templates, reporting processes and governance.

• Stakeholder Engagement

  Build and maintain effective working relationships with syndicate leads, project managers, workstream leads and stakeholders to support consistent PMO adoption and timely issue resolution.

• PMO Framework, Standards and Governance Assurance

  Supporting Senior PMO Analyst to develop, maintain and embed the PMO governance framework, roadmap, policies, standards and templates across syndicate, programme and project processes.

• Continuous Improvement and Lessons Learned

  Identify process gaps, inefficiencies and opportunities for automation or standardisation, while supporting lessons learned activities by maintaining lesson learned log, tracking agreed actions and escalating where progress stalls.

• Planning and Dependency Support

  Work with workstream leads to map and understand dependencies across syndicates, offering guidance on planning sequencing and dependency management through one‑to‑one support and workshop sessions.

• 2–4 years’ experience in a PMO and experience supporting planning with some familiarity of dependency mapping within a project or programme.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interrogate data, identify trends and risks, and present findings clearly and concisely.
• Experience in RAID management, dependency tracking, change control, benefits monitoring and governance assurance is preferred.
• Proficient in Excel, with experience producing dashboards, KPI reporting and structured data outputs.
• Experience with Power BI, Power Apps, SharePoint, reporting automation or Microsoft Copilot would be beneficial as the PMO function continues to mature.

• P3O Foundation.
• PRINCE2, MSP or APM qualification.

• Pioneering – we don’t stand still
• Responsible – We do the right thing
• Inclusive – we all play a role
• Delivery Focused – we provide services we are proud of
• Empowering – we equip people to be their best

As well as a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a minimum 24 days of annual leave (with the option to buy more), you will also get an excellent benefits package, including flexible, hybrid working, private health insurance, life assurance, income protection, enhanced pension contributions, and occupational maternity and paternity pay.

You will also have access to company volunteering days, an Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing scheme, an employee assistance programme with retail discounts and savings, a generous employee referral scheme, regular sports and social events, and free Cheltenham bus travel.

Benefits Band 2.