Contract type: 18 months Fixed Term Contract
Hours: 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Pay band: 8
Salary: £46,203 - £53,586, plus £3,300 London Market Allowance for candidates in the London area only.
Location: UK - London
Closing Date: 24th May 2026
Benefits Include, but are not limited to:
* 32 days annual leave, in addition to public holidays
* Career average defined benefit pension scheme
Requirements:
Please note that candidates must have the pre-existing (permanent) legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Visa Sponsorship and relocation assistance is not provided.
There is a requirement to be in the office three days a week.
Role Context
The Global Change Programme has been established to achieve an improvement in the profit and loss from current losses to sustainable surplus by 2030, through a combination of business growth and cost savings, divestments, operating model and organisational design changes.
Role Purpose
* The Lead PMO Analyst is a pivotal role at the heart of a complex, organisation-wide transformation.
* The role owns the development of a single, integrated view of delivery across ~35 interdependent initiatives spanning growth, efficiency, and structural change, ensuring leadership has a clear, credible, and actionable understanding of progress, risks, and dependencies.
* This is more than a reporting role. It requires strong analytical thinking, judgment, and the ability to challenge, synthetise, and influence.
Main Accountabilities
Programme-level reporting and insights
* In collaboration with the Head of PMO and the Senior PMO Manager, lead the monthly reporting cycle, consolidating inputs from projects thought the central online reporting platform
* Develop a coherent, integrated view of programme progress, including delivery milestones, risks and issues, financial performance
* Produce high-quality, senior level Programme Board materials, translating data into clear insights, key risks, actions and decisions required
* Provide a portfolio-level perspective to ensure a single, aligned view of delivery
Integrate narrative and financial performance
* Work closely with Finance to align project-level reporting, cost and benefit tracking
* Link delivery narrative with financial data, to provide consistent and credible view of performance
* Identify and challenge discrepancies between reported progress, financial forecasts, realised benefits, and KPIs
Challenge and assure project reporting
* Act as a quality gate for project reporting submission, challenging projects on milestone plans and sequencing, delivery assumptions, reported progress and risks
* Strengthen milestone planning and identify where projects need stronger planning support
* Ensure alignment between project plans and the overall programme timeline
* Where required, work with project teams to define as refine clear, measurable KPIs
Maintain and improve PMO reporting tools and processes
* Own and continuously improve reporting templates, central trackers, data structures
Requirements of the role
* Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
* 4-7 years’ experience in consulting, transformation, or strategy role with strong analytical and stakeholder engagement capability
* Strong analytical and structuring capability, with the ability to translate ambiguous inputs into clear, actionable insights
* Experience working with multiple data sources (e.g. HR, Finance, project data) and reconciling inconsistencies
* Experience supporting governance forums (e.g. SteerCo, ExCo) and preparing senior-level material
* Experience developing and using programme planning and reporting tools, such as Power Point, Excel-based trackers, dashboards
* Proven ability to engage with and challenge senior stakeholders constructively
* Familiarity with programme or project management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, PMP, MSP)
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