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In a nutshell
You'll be responsible for the PMO Team within the Technology Delivery Function in Argos Financial Services; this function is responsible for a large change portfolio and you'll lead a team of 3 PMO Analysts. The PMO function covers all governance as well as reporting, planning, RAID management, change control, finance and resource control, information and communication management.
What success looks like?
You'll support the programme across all aspects of the PMO to assist effective change delivery, this includes defining and supporting all programme governance and controls whilst ensuring adherence to our delivery methodology, standards and processes. You'll work collaboratively with stakeholders in Technology, Sainsbury's Bank & Argos Financial Services (SBAFS) and the wider Sainsbury's Argos Group to continuously improve change delivery.
What you'll be doing
Leading and inspiring a high-performing Delivery PMO team to successfully deliver customer value.
Defining and managing Delivery PMO resource requirements to deliver required change.
Managing the overall PMO function workload and responsibility apportionment across the PMO Analysts.
Designing, implementing and managing the programme governance and controls, aligning to SBAFS' methodology.
Acting as a "Centre of Excellence" for project management, providing guidance and coaching to existing or new programme resource where required.
Defining, implementing and managing the programme governance structure to support effective decision making, ensuring decisions are taken by the correct people, are based on accurate and timely information and enable mechanisms for escalations or resolving issues efficiently.
Ensuring all programme reporting requirements are met, both inside the programme and upward SBAFS-wide reporting, up to Executive and Board level.
Maintaining, tracking and reporting the programme plan including dependencies and assumptions, constructively challenging Project Managers on quality of input where appropriate.
Defining the programme's standards and process for effective risk and issue management, ensuring that this is aligned to SBAFS' risk management policy. Issuing MI on a regular basis, creating reports as required to support escalations and decision making.
Providing a secretariat function for relevant meetings and administrative support.
Defining and owning an effective process to identify, asses, monitor and implement changes on the programme within defined parameters.
Maintaining control and oversight of all SBAFS resources working across the programme, supporting recruitment and liaising with appropriate functions to manage all joiners, movers and leavers.
Owning the relationship with the programme Finance business partner on behalf of the Programme Manager, ensuring there is an effective financial control process in place, tracking the forecast spend against agreed budget, taking inputs from PMs and creating budget reports as required.
Supporting the supplier payment process and owning relationships with supplier payment teams.
Defining and owning the programme communication plan and stakeholder map.
Supporting 2nd line assurance and 3rd line audit control checks on the programme.
What you need to know and show
Experience leading & developing a PMO team is essential. Your leadership style should be enabling, empowering and authentic.
Experience of working in a Technology change environment.
Experience working on large, complex programmes.
Ideally, you will have worked within the Financial Services/Banking sector.
Experience of working with 3rd party suppliers in a primarily outsourced environment.
Knowledge in waterfall hybrid change delivery environments.
Excellent relationship management skills, including a proven ability to influence at a Senior Management level.
Exceptional communication skills, you'll have the ability to communicate effectively with anyone in any environment.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Highly competent across MS Office, including PowerPoint, SharePoint, Excel and Project applications.
Our benefits
In addition to the all- important competitive salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So, we want to shout out some of our other great benefits???
We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance
Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table
Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We've got it covered through your Sainsburys, Argos and Habitat store discount card
Cycle to work scheme and great coffee and cake!
A little about us & our culture
As digital technology drives the financial services landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital products to our customers.
Technology is where we see our growth therefore we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.
We're a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers' financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury's Argos Group, being one of the UK's most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential.
Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.
As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.
We know that candidates may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box. While we can't always accommodate every flexible working request, we do support part-time and job share roles so are happy to be asked how we can work around your availability. So if you are excited about working with us and think you can do much of what we are looking for but aren't sure if you are 100% there yet??? why not apply and see how it goes?
Here we're a proud equal opportunities employer that values diversity at every level of our business. Inclusion and Diversity are fundamental to our culture and values, fostering an innovative, collaborative and fast paced work environment that means we can build a better future for our colleagues and our customers. Everyone is welcome. Want to find out more? Then visit our Diversity & Inclusion page on our Careers site -