Internal use only - Grade E
About us
We’re the team behind digital retailer Very.
Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do.
And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go.
If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers. ✨
About the Role
The Senior ePMO Analyst plays a pivotal role in assuring and supporting effective delivery of portfolio outcomes across The Very Group.
Operating at enterprise portfolio level, this role partners closely with Delivery Managers, Portfolio Managers, Senior stakeholders, Finance, People and Strategy to provide a holistic, cross-cutting view of change.
Acting as a critical friend, the Senior ePMO Analyst challenges constructively, supports decision-making, and proactively identifies cross-portfolio risks, dependencies, and delivery constraints.
The role drives consistency, maturity, and value across governance, reporting, and delivery frameworks, elevating performance across multiple portfolios spanning retail and financial services
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio Governance and Reporting:
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Provide insight and assurance for portfolio-level reporting, providing insights into risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery progress for the areas supported
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Define and refine portfolio governance standards and rhythms, ensuring adherence to agreed methodologies (agile, hybrid, waterfall) and controls across multiple delivery areas.
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Provide objective delivery assurance through evidence-led health checks, stage gate readiness reviews, and proactive recommendations for course correction.
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Translate complex portfolio data into clear narratives for senior leadership, highlighting trends, hotspots, trade-offs, and required decisions
Programme Support:
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Partner with Delivery Managers and Portfolio Managers to shape portfolio plans, prioritisation, and resource strategies that optimise value and manage constraints.
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Drive integrated dependency and risk management across the portfolio, ensuring linkages are captured, owned, and actively managed across vertical delivery lines.
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Coordinate and continuously improve portfolio-level reporting cycles, ensuring alignment between enterprise priorities, funding, benefits realisation, and delivery roadmaps.
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Facilitate and support portfolio forums, decision boards, and cross-portfolio working groups, ensuring actions, outcomes, and accountabilities are clear and tracked.
Continuous Improvement:
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Identify and lead opportunities to automate, simplify, and standardise ePMO processes, tooling, and templates to increase efficiency and reduce friction.
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Champion continuous improvement practices, promoting consistent adoption of best practice and embedding lessons learned across portfolios and programmes.
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Evolve and maintain the enterprise change framework and playbook, ensuring it supports both agile and hybrid delivery contexts and is understood by stakeholders.
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Implement and refine portfolio metrics and KPIs (delivery, financial, benefits, capacity) to enable data-driven decision-making.
Stakeholder Engagement:
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Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, Portfolio Managers, Delivery Managers, Finance, Risk, Strategy, People Team and other control functions, acting as a credible advisor and critical friend.
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Provide constructive challenge to senior stakeholders, balancing governance and pace to enable outcomes while safeguarding delivery confidence.
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Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to resolve enterprise-wide constraints, ensuring alignment on priorities and trade-offs.
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Communicate complex information succinctly and diplomatically, tailoring messages to executive and delivery audiences
About you-
Deep understanding of portfolio, programme, and project management methodologies (agile, hybrid, waterfall) and enterprise portfolio management practices
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Significant experience in a PMO/ePMO or portfolio management role within a complex, fast-paced corporate environment, ideally retail or financial services
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Proven ability to operate at portfolio level, synthesising data across multiple programmes to provide actionable insights and strategic recommendations
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Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with a track record of providing constructive challenge to senior leaders in a supportive, solutions-oriented manner
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Strong analytical and data storytelling skills; ability to translate complex portfolio data into clear, decision-ready insights
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Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint) and strong experience with SharePoint-based governance repositories
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Proficiency in JIRA (administration and day-to-day use) and associated tooling across agile at scale environments (highly desirable)
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Experience of resource and capacity management at portfolio level, including demand/supply analysis and scenario planning (highly desirable)
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Experience with data visualisation and BI tools (e.g., Power BI) to build portfolio dashboards and KPIs (desirable)
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Relevant professional qualifications such as P3O, MSP, PRINCE2, MoP, SAFe, or equivalent (desirable)
Some of our benefits
- Flexible, hybrid working model
- Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews
- £1000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
- 30 days holiday + bank holidays
- LinkedIn learning access
- Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
- Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk
- Matched pension up to 6%
- More benefits can be found on our career site
How to apply
Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.
What happens next?
Our talent acquisition team will be in touch if you’re successful so keep an eye on your emails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we’re a good match, we’ll share your CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.
You can expect a two-stage interview process for this position:
1st Stage - Initial Teams call with Hiring Team.
2nd Stage - A one-hour formal interview where you can expect both competency and technical questions.
Please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.
Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities
We’re building a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via [email protected]. We’ll be happy to support you.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.
