6 month contract for a PMO Analyst for the Commercial Development Department of High Speed 2 based on Euston London. Please note ther £400 a day is inside IR35.

Commercial Development is tasked with maximising commercial value and revenue both within the Stations and development opportunities near to stations and along line of route.  The PMO Analyst will report to the PMO & Business Manager of the Commercial Development team providing project support, and applying both project and programme control processes and tools to track, report and coordinate progress and performance of the team and their individual workstreams. The role will have a primary focus on the Stations Operations and Commercial team but will support across the department as appropriate.
 

Duties & Responsibilities

• Apply a range of HS2 led project and programme control tools and processes for the Commercial Development and Station Operation teams to support the team in the management of their day to day activities. These will include, but are not limited to; project planning/scheduling, reporting, risk management, governance and project administration. 
• Assist the team in identification, capture and management of Station Operation risks. Maintain the Station Operations risk register on Xactium. Work closely with each team member to regularly review and update their risks via both one to one working and running risk workshops. Liaise with Phase One risk champions to discuss and manage interface and shared risks. 
• Work closely with the Stations Director and the Station Operations team to ensure that each workstream is successfully controlled; by the production of station by station programme information, performance data, summary information and KPIs. Apply this information to key team and programme reports.
• To support the wider Commercial Development Department by creating reporting information to satisfy the requirements of both regular and ad-hoc governance forums, committees and stakeholder requirements.
• Create and maintain a master programme for the Stations Operations team, and support the team in monitoring and tracking progress of milestones and deliverables. Maintain the programme in Primavera (P6). Conduct regular reviews with each team member to evolve and update the programme. Distil programme information into relevant progress reports and requests for information from within the team and wider business. 
• Work closely with the PMO Manager to support as secretariat the various Commercial Development Directorate governance forums and regular meetings, such as the Commercial Development Panel. 
• Support the Station Operations team with some regular aspects of project support such as meeting bookings, travel arrangements and bookings, team meeting actions and minutes capture and tracking.

Experience

REQUIRED RITERIA 

 SKILLS

• Ability to produce and present documents and reports to a variety of audiences and ability to meet agreed deadlines
• IT skills in relation to Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, Excel and other project management tools.
• Experience with risk management tool(s) (Xactium) and planning software eg. Primavera (P6) desirable – must have Microsoft project & expeirence of risk management tools specific training on p6 & Xactium can be given
• Ability to review, organise and check a range of progress and performance information from others into meaningful outputs; tailored to suit different types of audiences and governance structures.
• Good stakeholder management and communications skills required

KNOWLEDGE

• Understanding of range of project management and programme control functions within a  project or programme.
• Understanding of decision-making processes, governance structures and processes, and the associated need for concise and effective reporting
• Understanding of the dynamics of a large programme and project organisations  

TYPE OF EXPERIENCE 

• Experience across a range of project and programme control functions

DIMENSIONS

• Business critical role to support the Station Operations team to monitor, control and report the progress of the team.
• Business critical role to understand and respond to the requirements and requests of interfaces with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate a compelling vision and exhibit strong presentation skills.
• Understanding of project and programme management techniques and processes.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Ability to work on multiple activities simultaneously and prioritise the most critical activities to achieve timely delivery.