Overview

Join Our Team as a Senior Portfolio Management Office (PMO) Analyst!

This exciting role, reporting directly to our Head of PMO, offers the opportunity to excel in a fast-paced and dynamic environment within Gallagher’s UK & EMEA Change and Operations function.

We’re looking for a motivated and detail-oriented professional eager to grow their career while contributing to the success of key projects and initiatives across our UK & EMEA business.

We offer flexible hybrid working and this role can be based in either our London City or Chelmsford offices.

How you'll make an impact

• Support project and portfolio delivery through effective governance, data analysis, and reporting
• Monitor portfolio performance, highlight risks and dependencies, and identify opportunities for improvement
• Support and challenge our Project Managers, and actively share your opinions within our Change Boards
• Partner with project teams to provide assurance and to embed high-quality outcomes and consistent standards
• Bring insight and clarity to complex issues using data-driven reporting and clear communication

What We’re Looking For

• A proven understanding of project management language and frameworks
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data to tell a story
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with tact and diplomacy
• Someone who thrives in a fast-changing environment and takes a proactive approach

About You

• Proven PMO experience supporting diverse change initiatives across complex stakeholder landscapes, ideally within large corporates or financial services
• Thorough understanding of project delivery methodologies (waterfall/agile), fiscal controls, and lifecycle management, with PRINCE2/APM or equivalent qualifications
• Skilled in supporting diverse change portfolios, articulating business cases and benefits, and providing insight across competing priorities
• Track record of implementing process improvements and conducting quality assurance reviews, with data analysis capabilities to identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Proficient in programme and portfolio-level reporting, integrating tools and processes for accurate, exception-based insights
• Effective stakeholder engagement and change management, with strong communication skills across all organisational levels
• Experienced in deploying project management tools with in depth understanding of functionality and processes to drive adoption and capability uplift
• People management experience including coaching, development, and assignment oversight
• Familiar with Planview Portfolio and similar platforms
• High attention to detail in written communications, SOPs, and dashboard design for senior audiences
• Collaborative team player with strong organisational skills to prioritise, schedule, and monitor progress effectively
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Willingness to travel to different UK offices as needed (infrequently)

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Compensation and benefits

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits include:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back-up family care
• And many more…

We value inclusion and diversity

Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com. If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.