PMO Analyst

Who are we?

Howden is a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. Together, we have pushed the boundaries of insurance. We are united by a shared passion and no‑limits mindset, and our strength lies in our ability to collaborate as a powerful international team comprised of 23,000 employees spanning over 56 countries.

People join Howden for many different reasons, but they stay for the same one: our culture. It’s what sets us apart, and the reason our employees have been turning down headhunters for years. Whatever your priorities – work / life balance, career progression, sustainability, volunteering – you’ll find like‑minded people driving change at Howden.

Howden is a fast‑paced dynamic organisation with ambitious growth targets. Howden Specialty is a rapidly growing international insurance broking business placing over £7billion of premium supporting seventy thousand clients in 110 countries. We are transforming our business to a tech and AI‑enabled cutting edge digital leader. An experienced PMO is required to support the CTO and Specialty Transformation Committee (STC) governance including: supporting stakeholders to triage and produce inputs as part of the STC intake process, prepare monthly STC packs, track and monitor actions and support ongoing SDLC and delivery governance adherence of a portfolio of projects.

We are looking for a PMO Analyst working within a central PMO team supporting this area of work. The PMO will be focused on providing structure and organisation, but also ensuring the PMs are provided with the support and guidance they need to deliver into this area of the business.

The PMO analyst will also role out standardisation of reporting and process from the central Portfolio team, working closely together to ensure quality and consistency is matched across the wider Howden Group.

The role will also have a part to play in managing some of the key stakeholders to the project, including Specialty CTO, COO & STC (portfolio), Product Owners / stakeholders (intake) & delivery managers / PM's (projects), ensuring that the programme delivers to the standards required by the group.

The role is a permanent position.

• Ensure smoothly facilitated and relevant governance processes and documentation are embedded to the correct level of control, whilst maintaining the momentum of the programme.
• Develop, maintain and facilitate easy‑to‑digest and accurate reporting, both from the Project Managers (PMs) into the PMO and out to relevant boards and stakeholders.
• Provide clear standards and processes for the escalation of RAID items, providing central management and ensuring a consolidated view for the programme governance boards.
• Ensure standards are in line with group standards or controls (where relevant) by working with the central PMO function.
• Co‑ordinate and support some of the key governance meetings for the programme, ensuring they run smoothly, facilitating appropriate and relevant decision making for the programme.
• Develop Trusted Adviser relationships with the PMs in order to ensure risks and issues are well understood and support can be offered to mitigate these.
• Ensure the provision of accurate, tailored reporting and regular communications with key stakeholders to ensure they are kept up to date with the developments of the programme.

• Work with the team to provide excellent support for the project managers, ensuring that the support is tailored for those PMs.
• Detail the range of services offered to the PMs, ensuring standardisation where possible, but with a flexibility of thinking to tailor to different cultures, experiences and needs.
• Develop Trusted Adviser relationships with key individuals in Howden Speciality in order to ensure risks and issues are well understood and support can be offered to mitigate these.

• Develop strong presentations and reports for a variety of audiences across the business, demonstrating strong storytelling and an ability to consolidate multiple inputs into a concise and easy to digest format.
• Assist the programme leadership…