Reports to: PMO Lead
Location: London - Heathrow
Contract Type: Permanent
Introduction to role
We are looking for a motivated Junior PMO Analyst to join our PMO team, supporting the delivery of complex projects through strong reporting, governance, and coordination. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their PMO career to develop their skills across performance reporting, finance and project board administration, and stakeholder engagement, while working alongside experienced project professionals.
Role Responsibilities
Your responsibilities and activities will include:
- Schedule PMS (monthly performance report) pre-review meetings and carry out integrity checks
- Ensure PMSs are submitted in a timely manner
- Take meeting minutes and track actions from VI-HAL PMS reviews
- Ensure follow-up on actions raised from VI-HAL PMS reviews
- Support the integration and alignment of scope, cost, risk and schedule, and analyse performance data to provide delivery insight and inform delivery decisions
- Help assure the quality, accuracy and integrity of the monthly reporting output
- Schedule project board meetings and log meeting minutes
- Follow up on actions from Project Board meetings
- Maintain the reporting calendar
- Support the PMO Lead in implementing effective governance and assurance processes
- Support project teams in using the correct tools and processes
Role Qualification and Skills
- Some exposure to or a genuine interest in reporting, planning (Primavera P6 desirable but not essential), cost estimation, risk and change management
- Good communication skills, with confidence engaging colleagues across a wide range of project and portfolio teams, and with clients
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel
- An interest in or basic familiarity with Power BI
- Well organised, with the ability to work to deadlines, take initiative and think on your feet
- Reliable and able to work both autonomously and as part of a team
- Keen to develop your stakeholder management skills and grow within a PMO environment
What we offer
- 28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
- Private Medical Cover
- YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Yellow Nest is a salary exchange scheme that reduces childcare costs for parents and employers
- Pension with Aviva
- Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.
Skills Required
- Exposure to or genuine interest in reporting, planning, cost estimation, risk management, and change management
- Primavera P6 experience
- Good communication skills and confidence engaging colleagues, project teams, portfolio teams, and clients
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
- Interest in or basic familiarity with Power BI
- Ability to work to deadlines, take initiative, and think on your feet
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Interest in developing stakeholder management skills and growing within a PMO environment
Vanderlande Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanderlande and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanderlande.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with day‑one eligibility in many U.S. roles and employer‑paid protections that reduce out‑of‑pocket exposure. Feedback suggests medical, dental, and vision are a clear strength.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting in the U.S. Feedback suggests this forms a solid pillar of the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, sick leave, and paid holidays are characterized as generous relative to peers. Compressed workweek options in some roles further support time away and recovery.
Vanderlande Insights
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions. The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology. Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation. Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
