Senior PMO Analyst

About the role

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that owns and operates the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform. We provide customers with satellite imagery, automated analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events globally. The Senior Analyst role within the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) supports the PMO Director in developing, maintaining, and operating full lifecycle processes for the organization's work portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Provide lifecycle oversight, controls, and health monitoring for the delivery portfolio (direct and indirect work sub-portfolios) and fulfill all requisite monthly operational duties.
• Ensure strategic fit and value justification for all indirect initiatives as well as proper work and financial charge code setup in coordination with sponsoring executives and owning functional managers.
• Planning, development, maintenance, and configuration control of PMO policies, standards, processes, procedures, tool guides and other reference artifacts.
• Serve as the PPM platform system administrator and configurator. This includes tier 1 user support, access management, basic customizations, user adoption, report design/setup, proactive data completeness and quality monitoring, PPM product roadmap awareness and planning, system integrations, and feature exploitation.
• Curriculum development and user training delivery in areas of responsibility.
• Direct service support to PMs in the areas of: WBS development, schedule development, financial management, risk management, resources management and other requisite program management domains.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, project management, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• At least 6 years of experience in a medium- to large-size enterprise line-of-business PMO or an enterprise PMO for a small- to medium-sized company.
• Portfolio/delivery management, project/program controls, and PPM tool administration and configuration (e.g. OnePlan, NH360 Portfolio Insights, Planisware, Cora, Shibumi, Planview, Clarity).
• Excellent listening, collaboration, and communication skills for working with PMs, other functional managers, and PPM platform users from across the company.
• Proficient with MS Office, SharePoint configuration, MS Project, process mapping (MS Visio, io.draw).
• Exceptionally organized with meticulous attention to detail.
• High altruism with a strong customer service orientation. Consulting and professional services experience strongly preferred.
• Relentless self-learner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity and/or experience with PMO-related maturity models: OPM3, P3M3, PMMM, CMMI
• Well versed in contract management processes and terminology.
• Background in process improvement and organizational change management grounded in lean engineering.
• Experience in defense, intelligence, or geospatial environments with US Government contracting.
• Data architecture and integration, ETL, and Power BI (or similar tool) experience.
• PfMP and PgMP/PMP, SAFe, or related certification.

Lifestyle at BlackSky

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
• BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
• 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
• Employer matching donations
• Professional development
• Mac or PC? Your choice!
• Awesome swag

Pay Range

The anticipated salary range for candidates in Virginia is $100,000-130,000 per year. The final compensation package offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on specific background and education. BlackSky is a multi-state employer, and this pay scale may not reflect salary ranges in other states or locations outside of Virginia.