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Closing Date
2025-09-05
Location: Durrington, Worthing (Hybrid 1-2 days a week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Market rate + bonus.
Hours: 37 hours
Are you ready to make a difference in the water & waste industry?
Southern Water are going through an immense digital transformation programme and require skilled and talented people to join our supportive and collaborative teams to deliver these transformation initiatives.
The
Delivery and Digital Portfolio PMO Analyst supports the successful delivery of Digital change initiatives by providing governance, reporting, and analytical support across a portfolio of technology projects and programmes. You will ensure alignment with strategic objectives, promotes best practices, and enhances visibility into project performance and risks. You will be critical in enabling the PMO to deliver value through effective portfolio visibility, control, and governance.
Responsibilities To Include
Governance & Compliance
- Ensure adherence to project management frameworks and standards.
- Maintain documentation, templates, and best practices.
- Monitor and quality assure, milestones, financials, risks, and issues data, working with PM to correct anomalies.
- Support audits and compliance checks.
- Quality Assure project schedules, resource plans, and governance documentation.
- Attend stage-gate reviews and ensure audit trails are maintained.
- Coordinate project audits, reviews, and post-implementation evaluations.
- Set up of new projects and project folders in associated software
- Support the creation of monthly Steer Board Packs and ownership of the Actions and Decisions Log.
Portfolio Oversight & Reporting
- Track and report on project and programme status.
- Monitor KPIs, milestones, financials, risks, and issues.
- Analyse data trends to provide actionable insights.
- Advise senior leadership with data-driven recommendations.
- Create and review portfolio reports and dashboards (Planview, Power BI, JIRA, Microsoft tools).
- Support monthly Portfolio Steer Board preparation and review.
Data Analysis & Decision Support
- Analyse project data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Support decision-making with dashboards and reports.
- Use tools like Excel, Power BI, or PPM software for analysis.
Risk, Issue, and Change Management
- Assess risks and issues associated with projects within the portfolio/domain, working with project manager to assure mitigating strategies are of sufficient quality.
- Maintain and monitor risk, issue, and change logs across the portfolio/domain.
- Support mitigation planning and escalation processes.
Resource & Financial Management
- Track resource allocation and capacity planning.
- Support resource planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities and performance of projects.
- Monthly Financial review (by Domain)
- Purchase Orders (Receipting & Invoicing)
Communication and Collaboration
- Facilitate communication between project teams and senior stakeholders, fostering collaboration and transparency across the portfolio.
- Prepare presentations and status updates for executive reviews.
- Communicate effectively with project teams, senior stakeholders, and external partners.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives.
Skills And Experience Needed
- Knowledge of Planview Portfolios (Enterprise1, Planview) or similar.
- Experience of other tools like Power BI, JIRA, Service Now, SharePoint, Teams, Microsoft Office Applications.
- Project Management qualifications, Prince 2, APM, MoP, or a related field.
- Demonstrable experience in a PMO or project support role.
- Strong understanding of project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile).
- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, Power BI).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Attention to detail and organisational skills.
- Ability to execute in a high demand environment, whilst balancing multiple priorities.
- Excellent communicator, who can engage with all levels of stakeholders across the department.
What Do We Offer?
- 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
- Free annual flu jab and eye test vouchers.
- Pension contributions up to 11% (depending on your contribution).
- An employee assistance program.
- A network of sports and social clubs.
- Company and performance-related bonus.
- Life assurance equal to 4x salary.
- Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service).
- Health Cash Plan.
- Two paid volunteering days a year.
- Occupational health service.
- Discounts with over 800 popular retailers.
- Digital GP service.
- Study support may be available for job-related qualifications.
- Competitive maternity & paternity leave and flexible return to work options.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- This role is described a PMO Analyst internally
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
Privacy Statement
Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.
