
Portfolio Manager
- Manchester London
- £56,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Take full responsibility for the management and successful delivery of a portfolio of programmes and projects that are aligned to a group of business technologies.
- Provides effective leadership to the portfolio team and takes appropriate action when team performance deviates from agreed tolerances.
- Provides line management to programme and project managers in their portfolio.
- Plans, directs and monitors the assignment of programmes and projects to the resources allocated to the portfolio.
- Works with Demand Management and PMO to create and manage a portfolio capacity plan, ensuring resource utilisation is maximised.
- Determines when additional “flex” programme or project management resources are required from the contract market, on-boarding/off-boarding these in a timely manner to meet changing demand.
- Manages and maintains weekly and monthly portfolio reporting, providing the necessary input for senior leadership reporting/dashboards.
- Produces full portfolio/programme financials and tracks the financial status of the programmes and projects in the portfolio, including budget, forecast and actual spend.
- Supports programme and project managers with risk assessment assurance and issue escalation management.
- Holds a professional qualification (PMI, APM, AgilePM, PRINCE2).
- At least 5 years' experience in a full lifecycle Project or Programme Management role, working across multiple dimensions, (infrastructure, software development, 3rd party applications, etc.), managing large complex projects and programmes.
- At least 2 years' experience in managing a portfolio of programmes and projects, ideally using a mix of linear and iterative lifecycle methodologies.
- Demonstrates strong planning and resource management skills.
- Demonstrates knowledge of best project and programme management techniques and practices.
- Good knowledge of other best practice & standards such as ITIL, SDLC, ISO9000, ISO27001