Coordination and Reporting Manager

at  South Western Railway

WHO ARE WE?

South Western Railway (SWR) operates over 1,500 services each weekday across the network and employs more than 5,000 people. We provide easy and convenient mobility, connecting people and communities in South West London, southern counties of England, and the Isle of Wight.

THE REWARD

In return we offer a competitive salary and a variety of valuable benefits, including:

• Free duty and leisure travel on SWR services for employees
• Free leisure travel for spouse/partner and dependants (criteria dependent)
• 75% discount on many other train operating companies
• Full training and support with development
• Large range of exclusive retail offers
• Excellent pension scheme

We all belong at SWR. FirstGroup’s vision is to provide an inclusive environment for all colleagues, across its group of businesses, ensuring all candidates have an equal opportunity to access meaningful employment.
We value our differences such as age, gender, LGBTQIA+, ethnicity, religion, and disability. We maintain a zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice towards our colleagues, customers, and future talent.
We celebrate and encourage diversity of thought, progressive ways of working and seeing all our colleagues grow and thrive.
We review all roles and job descriptions to ensure they are accessible and, where possible, we support and provide flexible working options; we recommend that you refer to each vacancy description for further details.
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• Manage the timely reporting of projects, including designing and maintaining a suite of KPI’s to enable the Executive to measure project performance across the business.
• Management, organisation and administration of project governance meetings, including Transformation Steering Group and Stage Gate.
• Support the PMO Manager to improve the processes and templates within the Project Management Framework, to support more effective and efficient project management, delivery and reporting.
• Work collaboratively across the business, with Project Managers in particular, to ensure timely and robust reporting and coordination of projects through the Project Management Framework.
• Management of the Portal / Workfront, ensuring all processes and templates within the Project Management Framework are up to date and accessible.
• Management and maintenance of the Project Library, working with the project managers to ensure it is being used effectively and efficiently and all project data is up to date and accessible.
• Maintain the company wide project portfolio, assessing the impact of change across the business and undertaking resource planning and tracking to support efficient and successful delivery of projects.
• Owns the stakeholder and communications processes and templates within the Project Management Framework and ensures they are consistently applied by working collaboratively with project managers throughout the project lifecycle.
• Line Management of the Project Administrator.