Senior PMO Analyst

Sopra Steria; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cash plan

Pension

25 days annual leave

Life assurance

Job summary

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS), in collaboration with Sopra Steria, seeks a Senior PMO Analyst to support governance, reporting and outputs across programmes. The role is hybrid with Leeds office attendance required 3 days per week, enabling in-person collaboration and flexibility.

You’ll bring PMO experience, strong project controls knowledge, and proficiency in Excel/PowerPoint to drive insights and robust management information for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in a PMO or project support role within medium complexity environments.
• Strong understanding of project controls including financials, scheduling, risk and governance.
• Experience using project management tools and methodologies within waterfall, agile or blended environments.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and identify meaningful insights.
• Advanced capability in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work collaboratively, manage priorities and maintain high-quality outputs under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Supporting project planning, reporting, and governance to ensure delivery aligns with standards and processes.
• Managing risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID), ensuring visibility across project teams.
• Analysing project data to identify trends, provide insights, and support informed decision-making.
• Producing high-quality reports and dashboards to communicate performance and progress to stakeholders.
• Supporting change control processes and embedding improvements to ways of working across teams.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships and supporting communications, workshops and knowledge sharing.

Skills

PMO

Project Controls

Data Analytics

Excel

PowerPoint

Stakeholder Management

Tools

iQ

PM3

SAFe

Job description

Are you an experienced PMO professional who enjoys bringing structure, insight and clarity to complex projects, while working collaboratively with stakeholders and teams?

As a Senior PMO Analyst with NHS Shared Business Services, you’ll play a key role in supporting projects and programmes to deliver successfully. You’ll work as part of a collaborative and supportive team, helping to ensure strong governance, effective reporting, and high-quality outputs across a range of initiatives. This is a hybrid role, with an expectation to be in our Leeds office 3 days per week, giving you the best of both in-person collaboration and flexibility.

What you’ll be doing:

• Supporting project planning, reporting, and governance to ensure delivery aligns with agreed standards and processes.
• Managing risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies (RAID), ensuring visibility and consistency across project teams.
• Analysing project data to identify trends, provide insights, and support informed decision-making.
• Producing high-quality reports and dashboards to communicate performance and progress to stakeholders.
• Supporting change control processes and helping embed improvements to ways of working across teams.
• Building strong stakeholder relationships and supporting communications, workshops and knowledge sharing activities.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience of working in a PMO or project support role, delivering within medium complexity environments.
• Strong understanding of project controls including financials, scheduling, risk and governance.
• Experience using project management tools and methodologies within waterfall, agile or blended environments.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and identify meaningful insights.
• Advanced capability in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work collaboratively, manage priorities and maintain high-quality outputs under pressure.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience working across different client environments or sectors.
• Knowledge of PMO frameworks, tools or systems such as iQ, PM3 or SAFe.
• Experience supporting business change activities and assessing change readiness.
• Understanding of quality assurance processes within project delivery.

Employment Type

Full-time, Permanent.

Location

Leeds (3 days per week onsite).

Security Clearance Level

No clearance required.

Internal Recruiter

Rebecca.

Salary

£35,000 - £40,000.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams’ expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence. We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level. Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.