PMO Assurance Senior Analyst -Fixed Term Contract

Job Introduction

Selfridges is going through an exciting period of change that’s driving transformation across our business. To help meet this challenge, a new Portfolio Management Office is being formed to assure the quality of delivery across a number of change initiatives. To deliver against our commitment, we are now looking to recruit an exceptional PMO Quality Assurance Senior Analyst who has 3yrs+ experience of operating in a Quality Management position within a Portfolio or Programme Management Office to join our team and support delivering an exceptional service into the business.

Role Responsibility

Join us on our major transformation programme within Selfridges & Co, created to support the business vision of offering an extraordinary customer experience across all channels. This role will ensure we always have an up to date overview of workstreams & project activity, ensuring quality outputs, visibility and clear decision-making in order to deliver outcomes. Supporting the effective running of the programme’s governance cycle to ensure projects get visibility at the right times and decision making is enabled. In this role you will help to support PMO leadership and key stakeholders in the effective running of governance forums, ensuring timely provision of information. You will work with our delivery community and wider business stakeholders to land and sustain best practice in specialist areas such as planning, risks and issue management.

Key Responsibilities for this role include:

• To bring together portfolio, programme or project staff of different disciplines and drive the group to plan, formulate and agree a comprehensive Quality Management Strategy and Quality Management plan.
• Accountable for ensuring that quality management is robust, yet sufficiently proportionate and flexible enough to accommodate differing delivery models used by delivery teams.
• Establish consistent quality practices, standards and KPI’s.
• Manage the running of assurance forums.
• Working collaboratively with the other members of the Portfolio Office Leadership tyeam to deliver excellent services in to the business.

The Ideal Candidate

This is a fast paced role, having over 3 years experience in a similar role you will have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail. You will have hands on project management experience and able to think on your feet whilst juggling multiple priorities. You will be confident communicating at all levels within the business so clear communication is important. You possess excellent experience of applying projects management methodologies for business led projects and experience of working with project management tools would be advantageous. The ideal candidate will be a true team player willing to contribute new ideas and be confident with leading and embedding new ways of working whilst open to giving and receiving constructive feedback.

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