Senior PMO Analyst

Rullion - Eon; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in the East Midlands is seeking a Senior Portfolio Analyst to drive strategic alignment and operational excellence across the Technology portfolio. The role involves collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership, managing backlogs, providing performance insights, and ensuring alignment with company objectives. Candidates should possess strong communication, stakeholder management skills, and experience with project management tools. This position offers a dynamic work environment supporting diversity and equal opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Data leaders to manage Technology backlogs.
• Provide insights into portfolio performance and strategic goals.
• Support quarterly and annual planning cycles.
• Administer the central Change Board and evaluate new requests.
• Maintain dashboards and reports on portfolio health.
• Facilitate impact assessments and validate business benefits.
• Support financial oversight and portfolio KPI definition.
• Promote transparency of portfolio performance.
• Build trusted relationships to support decision-making.

Skills

Translating strategic goals into measurable outcomes

Prioritisation processes

Financial management

Project/Portfolio management tools (Asana, Jira)

Strong written and verbal communication

Stakeholder management skills

Data interpretation

Self-motivated working

Data literacy

Planning and multitasking

Tools

Asana

Jira

Google Workspace

Miro

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Portfolio Analyst who shall play a critical role in driving strategic alignment, performance visibility, and operational excellence across the Technology portfolio. Operating within a lean governance framework, this role collaborates closely with Product, Engineering, and Data leadership to translate strategic objectives into measurable outcomes—ensuring the portfolio delivers maximum value in line with company OKRs.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Alignment

• Partner with Product and Data leaders to manage Technology backlogs, ensuring initiatives are well-defined, strategically aligned, and prioritised according to business value and OKR impact.
• Collaborate with the Portfolio Manager and Data team to provide transparent insights into portfolio performance and progress against strategic goals.
• Support quarterly and annual planning cycles, ensuring initiatives are reviewed, prioritised, and aligned with business strategy and company OKRs.
• Assist in administering the central Change Board, evaluating and prioritising new requests to ensure alignment with strategic objectives.

Governance

• Maintain dashboards, reports, and insights to track progress against OKRs, key metrics, and overall portfolio health.
• Facilitate impact assessments for new demand, validating business benefits, dependencies, and resource implications.
• Support financial oversight, risk and issue management, and the definition of portfolio KPIs and performance indicators.

Stakeholder Management & Communication

• Promote transparency through clear, data-driven communication of portfolio performance to stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships across teams to facilitate effective decision-making and alignment.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience translating strategic goals and OKRs into measurable portfolio outcomes and performance metrics.
• Experience supporting quarterly and annual planning cycles, prioritisation processes, and governance within a technology or product environment.
• Experience of project or portfolio support role, including financial management responsibilities.
• Experience using project/portfolio management tools such as Asana or Jira.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including:
  • Strong written and verbal communication abilities
  • A proactive, organised, and detail-oriented approach with sound judgement and credibility
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills (including negotiation and assertiveness).
• Ability to interpret data, identify risks or opportunities, and present insights to support informed decision-making.
• Self‑motivated with the ability to work independently.
• Proficiency in Asana.
• Strong data literacy—comfortable working with KPIs, OKRs, financial data, and delivery metrics.
• Excellent planning and multitasking abilities.
• Strong knowledge of Google Workspace and Miro.

Please note: Should your application be successful, and you are offered the role, a few pre‑employment checks need to be carried out before your appointment can be confirmed. Any assignment offer with our client will be subject to a satisfactory checking report from the Disclosure Barring Service.

We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.