PMO Analyst – Manchester (with Hybrid working available)

We're TransPennine Express and we're going places. Whether that's helping customers reach their destination, or ensuring our colleagues feel fulfilled and supported in their careers. We're looking for people with drive and enthusiasm to join our amazing team and help push for more progress within the rail industry. We look forward to meeting new faces and eager minds, ready to join our mission of creating a better-connected network in the North and Scotland, for good.

Purpose of job role

You will be responsible for actively supporting the Head of the iPMO to create a highly disciplined, effective, and controlled project management environment to execute Project Management controls to ensure successful delivery across the Major Projects Directorate Portfolio. Introducing effective controls (including Benefits Management) forms an essential service within the newly formed PMO. This integral role sits within the iPMO function of the Major Projects Directorate, to provide the programme management structures and processes to enable the TransPennine Route Upgrade Delivery Partner function to facilitate the wider industry programme in planning and delivery. Ensuring accurate tracking and reporting is in place to keep decision makers informed of key risks / issues and support the planning and implementation of mitigations is also essential to the role.

About the job role

• Benefits Realisation; Responsible for working with individual project teams to identify, manage, monitor, and report key benefits. Provide assurance to the Head of the iPMO and the Major Projects Director, highlighting challenges and issues of benefit realisation.
• Programme Methodology: Ensure Project controls acts as the custodian of programme methodology and programme management standards and ensuring that key deliverables are produced. Champion the TPE processes, methods, and tools; working directly with project and senior project managers to successfully execute the delivery using the approved corporate standards. Provide projects with the necessary programme control templates and processes required to underpin successful delivery.
• Quality Control: establish consistent practices and standards for project planning, reporting, deliverables management, dependencies, change control, risks, and issues management. Monitor the adherence to the TPE standards, processes and maintenance/use of tools and templates as agreed with the Business Assurance Directorate; conducting internal checks where necessary and invoking recovery methods if required.
• Continuous Improvement of the reporting requirements from TPE into industry-wide investment programmes, projects and their associated programme governance, ensuring timely and accurate data is provided.
• Information Management; Ensure the quality and consistency of data supports the governance process. Champion the iPMO data repository, ensuring master copies of programme deliverables exist and are maintained
• Change Control; Ensure changes to deliverables, quality criteria and timelines are properly and appropriately managed. Manage the Change Control process in line with the defined Programme Change Control standards
• Dependency Management;Develop and Maintain the Portfolio Dependency Log ensuring that across the Portfolio the Projects/Programmes are actively identifying and managing dependencies.
• Stakeholder Management; Build and maintain positive relationships with the internal Delivery Partnership Team and external stakeholders. Provide training and coaching where appropriate of processes, methods, and tools.
• Participate in initiatives to meet Transpennine Express' Business Plan Commitments and assist with other activities within the directorate as required.
• Develop/improve the Programme Planning Standards to outline the approach to the development and maintenance of the Programme plans, Workstream plans, Deliverables Tracker and PID's
• Any other duties required by for the Head of iPMO

If that sounds like the right fit for you, we'd love to hear from you, please click apply and complete an application form.

What we offer

• Excellent career prospects.
• A personal development plan.
• Structured training and development
• Competitive salary paid on 4 weekly basis.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Free TransPennine Express rail travel for you and your dependants*.
• Travel discounts of up to 75% off other train operating companies, plus international rail travel after 1 years' service* for you and your dependants*.
• Free & Confidential Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Portal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you with any finance, family, health, or wellbeing issues you have. We make sure there's someone on-hand to offer guidance, advice, and useful information for our people when they are experiencing hardship at work or at home.
• Option to join the Railway Pension Scheme with significant employer contributions.
• Family friendly maternity and paternity benefits.
• Plus, high street and lifestyle discounts as well as a cycle to work scheme*.

*Terms and conditions apply

Goings places has never felt better!

At TransPennine Express, it's our goal to help people reach their full potential. We offer the opportunity to not just join the transformation of the rail industry, but to lead it. Our values are designed with every team member in mind; whether it's ensuring you feel free to be yourself at work, or encouraging everyone to pull together and support each other. We promise to value our people for the individuals they are. Whichever department becomes your destination, from the tip of the train, to the tail, our only focus is heading at full speed into the future. So, if making people crack a smile helps you feel at home, and raising standards is second nature to you, we'd love to have you onboard.