PMO Specialist

Job Details

Job title

PMO Specialist

Reports to (job)

Networks PMO Manager (Strategic Programmes)

Team

Networks PMO

Location

London, Bristol, Birmingham

Job Dimensions

Hours

37.5

No. Direct Reports

0

Career Level

D

Why BT Group?

We’ve always been an organisation with purpose; we connect for good.   You can trace this back to our beginning as pioneers of the world’s first telecommunications company.  At our heart, we are a technology company with research and innovation in our bones, and a desire to be personal, simple, and brilliant for our customers - the values we live by. Creating an inclusive working environment where people from all backgrounds can succeed.

Our pursuit of progress over the past 180 years has established BT as a strong, successful brand, with huge scale, capable of achieving great things.  From supporting emergency services, hospitals, banks and keeping economies around the world online, safe, and secure, to delivering large scale innovative technology infrastructure like the creation of BT Sport. 

Today, in this fast changing, always on, digital world, our purpose remains true. Yet the market conditions, regulations and competition we face are tougher than ever before.  So, if you have the drive, optimism, and resilience to help propel us forward, we’ll offer unrivalled personal development, a wealth of opportunities to learn, experience new things, and pursue new careers.  If that’s you, and what you’re looking for. 

We’d love you to be part of our future.

Why this job matters

Being involved in any Programme is special; however, contributing to one of networks key transformational initiatives focused on simplifying BT networks presents a unique opportunity to effect meaningful change.

This role will be critical to the success of key Strategic Programmes by bringing structure to a complex set of work across BT Group. The Networks PMO is a delivery focused PMO that supports projects & programmes to achieve the best outcomes for all our customers.

Our number one focus is to deliver value to the business and work with projects to deliver value to customers sooner.

What you’ll be doing – your accountabilities

The skills you’ll need to succeed

1.           Develop and maintain project management standards and processes based on BT Group’s unified methodology to ensure compliance and effective governance.

2.           Support the Programme Director in creating and managing the programme and project structure, ensuring that they are aligned with strategic objectives and that their delivery is prioritised and coordinated across the organisation.

3.           Manage financial and KPI information for the Programme, working with the commercial team to ensure costs are in line with expectations.

4.           Identify and manage dependencies, risks and issues, developing mitigations and ensuring that they are appropriately managed and reported.

5.           Provide regular status updates to the executive board and senior management, ensuring that stakeholders are kept informed of progress and any issues that may impact delivery.

6.           Develop and mentor as required, helping to improve people's abilities, and sharing knowledge and best practices to continuously improve delivery efficiency and effectiveness.

7.           Understanding of and ability to manage Jira and configurations to effectively execute the day-to-day activities for the Programme

·    Commercial thinker - You develop and implement ideas that benefit our business, using your understanding of internal commercial insight and the latest external thinking.

·    Team coach - You build high performing cultures within teams. You empower and support coaching and development activities.

·    Solution focused achiever - You identify and implement plans to overcome obstacles and achieve ambitious goals.

·    Be agile - You lead collaborative ways of working and continuous improvement. You encourage their adoption where necessary to deliver the best results for the customer.

·    Improvement focus - You collaborate to identify how work activities across teams are related and highlight inefficiencies. You help to remove barriers and find the resources or support needed to improve processes.

·    Use data analytics - You coordinate and establish the development and use of data analytics to make decisions. You provide comprehensive technical expertise to deliver data analytics capability

Leadership accountabilities

Experience you’d be expected to have

·        Solution-Focused Achiever: Cut through complexity and obstacles to get to the right ethical solution at the right time.

·        Change Agent: Adapts quickly and perform effectively even when there’s ambiguity.

·        Collaborative Partner: Works brilliantly with partners both within and outside of the organization to deliver business results

Mandatory experiences:

·        Extensive Project Experience (Process, Methodologies, Ways of Working)

·        Strong experience with Agile Methodologies, and SCRUM Framework

·        Strong leadership skills.

·        Communicate/Influence effectively with senior stakeholders.

·        Understand the business environment.

·        Change management / Process Improvement

·        Experience of supporting transformational Programmes

Key decisions

The BT way

Compliance with all BT policies is mandatory and applies to all BT employees. Policies can be accessed via the Portal and should be adhered to in-line with Standards of Behaviour Policy & Procedure and the Being trusted: our code.