Pmo Analyst

PMO Analyst

12-month Fixed Term Contract

Location: Harrogate (hybrid – 3 days per week onsite – flex on days)

Salary: up to £41,500 + Bonus

About the Client

Our client is a well-established, Yorkshire-based family-owned business with over a century of heritage. Known for their unwavering focus on quality, craftsmanship, sustainability, and community impact, they continue to thrive while staying true to their founding values.

How you’ll spend your day

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing PMO function at the heart of a large transformation portfolio. You'll play a key role in improving governance, reporting and portfolio oversight across a diverse range of technology, digital and business change initiatives. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll provide meaningful analysis that supports informed decision-making while helping the PMO evolve its processes, tooling and ways of working.

You'll be responsible for:

• Producing consolidated portfolio reporting covering project status, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, budgets, benefits and resource utilisation.
• Analysing delivery data to identify trends, emerging risks, capacity constraints and areas requiring management attention.
• Supporting portfolio prioritisation by providing insight into delivery confidence, dependencies, sequencing and resource impacts.
• Tracking project benefits throughout the delivery lifecycle, highlighting variances and reporting against expected outcomes.
• Preparing governance packs, dashboards and reporting for portfolio boards and steering groups, enabling effective decision-making.
• Supporting assurance activities including health checks, stage gate reviews and governance audits to ensure projects remain delivery-ready.
• Maintaining and improving PMO standards, governance frameworks, templates and reporting processes across the wider portfolio.
• Providing constructive challenge to Project Managers around governance, reporting quality, planning assumptions and project controls.
• Working with modern portfolio management tools to improve reporting accuracy, portfolio visibility and data-driven decision making.
• Identifying opportunities to continuously improve PMO processes, reporting capabilities and portfolio management practices.

What you’ll bring to this role

We're looking for an experienced PMO Analyst who enjoys turning project data into meaningful insight and helping organisations deliver change more effectively. This role would suit someone with several years' experience working within an established PMO who is confident operating across multiple projects and programmes rather than supporting individual project administration.

You'll ideally have:

• 3-4+ years' experience working within a PMO, Portfolio Office or Programme Management Office environment.
• Strong experience producing portfolio-level reporting, dashboards and management information for senior stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to identify trends, risks, dependencies and delivery challenges from complex project data.
• A solid understanding of PMO governance, portfolio controls, assurance activities and delivery frameworks.
• Experience supporting project, programme and portfolio governance across multiple concurrent change initiatives.
• Confidence providing constructive challenge around governance standards, reporting quality, planning assumptions and delivery risks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to present insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A methodical, highly organised approach with exceptional attention to detail and a passion for data quality.
• Experience using portfolio management or project reporting tools, with the ability to quickly learn new platforms and maximise their reporting capabilities.
• A continuous improvement mindset, always looking for ways to enhance PMO processes, governance and portfolio maturity.

This is an excellent opportunity for an established PMO Analyst looking to take ownership of portfolio insight and governance within a collaborative organisation that's investing heavily in improving the maturity of its change function.

Perks & Benefits:

• Free meals, drinks, and snacks while at work
• Discretionary quarterly profit-share bonus
• Holiday allowance with options to buy (and in some cases, sell) additional days
• Company-wide employee discounts
• Access to a health cash plan and wellbeing support
• Company-funded counselling services
• Enrolment in the company pension scheme
• Development opportunities including external training, apprenticeships, and internal 1:1 coaching

What happens next?

One of our Recruitment Consultants will be in touch and inform you if you’ve been successful to the next stage of the process or not, which is a qualification call where we will tell you more about the role and the client, and understand more about you, your experience and career aspirations.

Should we both wish to proceed, we will submit your details to the client and be in touch regarding the outcome and any further steps.

The interview process for this client consists of:

• Stage 1 – 30-60 minutes - initial chat via MS Teams | w/c 3rd August
• Stage 2 – 60-90 minutes - Presentation Task followed by Q+A onsite | 19th August

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all candidates and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. As an employment agency for permanent and contract hires, we are dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from underrepresented groups to drive innovation and equality within the workplace.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments please let us know so we can accommodate for any interactions with us at Biometric Talent, but also inform the client to ensure reasonable adjustments are made to allow for a fair and equitable process.