Senior PMO Analyst

Aviva; York and North Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK insurance firm is seeking a Senior PMO Analyst based in York or Norwich. This role involves supporting complex programmes, ensuring excellent delivery through governance and risk management. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, PMO experience, and knowledge of tools like JIRA and Planview. Competitive salary circa £45,000 with benefits including a generous pension scheme and flexible working options.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary

Generous pension scheme - up to 14%

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Up to 40% discount on Aviva products

Free Aviva shares through Matching Share Plan

Supportive policies including parental leave

Flexible benefits including sustainability options

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing support and tools

Qualifications

• Experience managing stakeholder relationships effectively.
• Ability to report on and manage risks and issues.
• Demonstrated PMO experience with change portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead complex change programmes across PMO pillars.
• Steer programmes towards excellent delivery using governance and risk management.
• Provide insights ahead of time to identify potential issues.

Skills

Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Skills across all PMO pillars

Self-starter

Understanding of key change management tools e.g. Planview, JIRA

Tools

Planview

JIRA

Job description

Senior PMO Analyst – Salary circa £45,000

Locations: York or Norwich

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to be a part of our high performing and highly valued team, within our Insurance, Wealth & Retirement (IWR) change function, which plays a key role in supporting our change community delivering Aviva’s strategy.

A bit about the job:

The role is fast paced, and no two days are the same. You will be working at the heart of our strategic programmes, or across a change portfolio, setting the standards and being the source of tools, governance approaches and guidance. You will steer programmes towards excellent delivery through application of the right governance, planning, risk, issues and financial management.

As a Senior PMO Analyst, you will provide day to day support and leadership to a range of change collaborators for complex and large-scale programmes across the key PMO pillars of Oversight, Insight, Foresight, Hindsight. We proactively highlight deviations, trends and issues ahead of time, identify themes and areas for investigation to support delivery, provide confidence that change is managed to clear risk tolerances within an effective system for predictable, no surprises' delivery, as well as act on behalf of the funding boards to ensure agreed investment money is spent appropriately and action is taken where it is not.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills; knows when to appropriately challenge and influence decisions using data and fact-based insight
• Clear skills across all PMO pillars (reporting, finance, governance, risks/issues, planning, insight/challenge, change framework, Technology and MI)
• Self-starter, able to operate with minimal line intervention, accountable for managing own workload to successful conclusion
• Good understanding of key change management tools e.g. Planview, JIRA, and demonstrable PMO experience

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary circa £45,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to [e-mail]