The Virgin group - a unique group of companies changing business for good, giving customers more choice and better service whilst having fun along the way. Taking bold from finance to health to travel to space. What these companies haven’t been before is truly connected...that is, until Virgin Red was created.

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Virgin Red is about rewarding customers for living a life more Virgin. Customers are able to earn and spend a new kind of currency, Virgin Points , across a wide range of partners and Virgin companies - giving them access to both everyday rewards and a curated list of exclusive experiences. And by being the hub connecting the Virgin companies we can get a deeper understanding of our customers and open up new opportunities for our partners.

It’s bold, unique and customer experience driven - Virgin in a nutshell.

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The work pace is fast, the business is evolving, challenges are plentiful and our expectations are high. But if all that’s ok with you we live up to our Virgin Red purpose of Rewarding Relationships... fancy unlimited holiday and weekly yoga? It’s all part of the Virgin Red package. Plus we have our inclusion, wellbeing and Points with Purpose strategy in place and being developed further as we speak - we’re starting as we mean to go on.

Some of the benefits we can quantify - healthcare and dental schemes; a free full health assessment after 1 year and pension contributions up to 6% of salary.

...And some we can’t - membership of Tribe, our Virgin group wide discount scheme; flexible working; ‘Welcome to Virgin Red’ points and access to our employee points purchase scheme. These ones you just have to put your own value on!

Sounds great

We’re currently building our team made up of Virgin company lifers, loyalty experts, technology whizz’s and random others! Right now, we’re looking for a Senior PMO Analyst to join our Delivery team. If you think it could be you, read on…

We are looking for a Senior PMO Analyst to support the development and establishment of the Portfolio Management Office that sits across the Virgin Red portfolio. The portfolio includes programmes and projects that deliver on our strategic priorities, organisational development, business process and self-service automation, finance and other internal business tools and services.

Key responsibilities are:

• Working with the Head of PMO and the Delivery Leadership team to support the creation, development and establishment of the Portfolio Management Office that sits across the Programmes and Projects.
• Provide expertise to the design, development and embedding of the delivery framework providing governance and control throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Lead on planning across the portfolio and updating the portfolio plans.
• Developing and producing reports and dashboards for ExCo and stakeholders on delivery plans and status.
• Support the creation, development, delivery and embedding of financial management processes.
• Lead on development and delivery of risk, issue and dependency management processes.
• Responsible for the development and delivery of resource management processes.
• Build great supplier relationships.
• Provide a quality assurance function across the company’s portfolio to ensure that the delivery framework and processes are adhered to.
• Support in the development of the PPM tool - Monday.com.
• Providing a centre of excellence expertise to the portfolio delivery community.
• Providing administrative support to delivery framework governance meetings including meeting setup, minutes and action logging and tracking.
• Coaching and training of PMO team members.

For this role we need you to have:

• At least 5 years’ experience in Programme or Portfolio analyst/support functions.
• Experience of working in a variety of sectors, ideally within smaller scale-up/start-up environments.
• A strong understanding of project/programme delivery life cycles.
• Understanding and articulation of the value and impact of PMO to a company’s portfolio.
• Excellent planning and analytical skills.
• Experience of creating and developing PMO processes.
• Experience of project management methodologies and a knowledge of both waterfall and agile delivery approaches.
• Excellent influencing, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Prior experience in working in fast paced environments.
• Ability to work methodically and accurately whilst keeping to deadlines.
• Fantastic relationship building skills.
• Highly organised, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative and without supervision.
• Problem-solving skills with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Experience of using SharePoint, Confluence and JIRA.
• Excellent working knowledge of Office 365 applications (Word, Excel, Teams and PowerPoint).
• Experience in using Monday.com (desirable)
• P3O qualification (desirable).
• Project Management qualification (desirable)

So, sound like the role for you? If so, hit the apply button because we want to hear from you!