Senior PMO Analyst

Arup; Whitehaven; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arup’s Digital Technology team invites a skilled portfolio leader to join the Portfolio & Value group. You will help shape and govern Arup's digital investments, align roadmaps with strategy and ensure funded delivery across the portfolio.

Working with senior stakeholders, Enterprise Architects and business change teams, you will drive prioritisation, investment governance and benefit realisation to maximise value for clients and communities.

Qualifications

• Experience of portfolio management, demand management or PMO governance within a complex organisation.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, influencing and communication skills, including working with senior leaders.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate business cases, investment proposals and portfolio data.
• Experience of benefits management, value realisation and investment governance processes.
• A proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement, innovation and the use of technology, automation and AI to improve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Play a leading role in shaping Arup's future digital portfolio, helping to evaluate, prioritise and govern strategic investments that support the firm's long-term objectives.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture to translate strategic roadmaps into a coordinated pipeline of initiatives, ensuring alignment between business priorities, technology strategy and delivery capacity.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Digital Technology and the wider business, providing analysis, challenge and guidance to improve the quality of investment decisions.

Skills

Portfolio management

PMO governance

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Investment governance

Benefits realisation

Automation and AI

Job description

Joining Arup

Arup’s purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set us apart for over 80 years, guiding how we shape a better world.

The Portfolio & Value team provides a PMO and portfolio management service for Arup’s Digital project portfolio. Working closely with the Strategy Office we take a strategic approach to portfolio planning and prioritisation, managing the delivery process from idea to execution, via a lean and data driven approach.

The Opportunity

At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. You will have the opportunity do socially useful work that has meaning – to Arup, to your career, to our members and to the clients and communities we serve.

We are a small team with a big impact, helping shape and govern Arup's portfolio of strategic digital investments. Working at the intersection of business strategy, portfolio management and digital transformation, you will collaborate with senior leaders, Enterprise Architects, business change teams to ensure that the right initiatives are prioritised, funded and delivered.

This Role Will

• Play a leading role in shaping Arup's future digital portfolio, helping to evaluate, prioritise and govern strategic investments that support the firm's long-term objectives.
• Work closely with Enterprise Architecture to translate strategic roadmaps into a coordinated pipeline of initiatives, ensuring alignment between business priorities, technology strategy and delivery capacity.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Digital Technology and the wider business, providing analysis, challenge and guidance to improve the quality of investment decisions.

Did you know:

Our Digital Technology team are proud prior winners of the IT Team of the Year Award at the Chartered Institute of IT’s UK IT Industry Awards.

Is this role right for you?

• Experience of portfolio management, demand management or PMO governance within a complex organisation.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, influencing and communication skills, including working with senior leaders.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate business cases, investment proposals and portfolio data.
• Experience of benefits management, value realisation and investment governance processes.
• A proactive mindset with a passion for continuous improvement, innovation and the use of technology, automation and AI to improve outcomes.

What We Offer You

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together. Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We care about you and want you to perform at your best, which is why we offer one of the most competitive benefits packages in our sector. As a member organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme (payments are dependent on the firm’s financial performance). We also provide private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Different people, shared values

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, regardless of age (within legal limits), gender identity or expression, marital status, disability, neurotype or mental health, race or ethnicity, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We are an open environment that embraces diverse experiences, perspectives, and ideas – this drives our excellence. Guided by our values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, we create and contribute to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion – we aim to create a space for you to express yourself and make a positive difference. Discover more about life at Arup at Careers - Your Life at Arup . We are committed to making our recruitment process and workplaces accessible to all candidates. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application or interview process, and/or to perform the essential functions of the role. We will do everything we can to support you.

Our Application Process

Please note that all applicants must apply directly via the job portal and applications sent via email will not be considered.

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An environment that will give you freedom to design with a purpose, focus on your skills to deliver quality work to our clients, opportunity to learn and share knowledge openly. You will have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme.

You’ll have access to lots of learning opportunities and ongoing training through Arup university and other learning programmes.