Head Of Portfolio Management

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Head of Portfolio / PMO - Hybrid working - FTSE100 - Running portfolio supporting £100m+ globally - £90-95k + 35% bonus + bens

Purpose of the role

• Deliver high quality and timely reporting and control to exec / senior stakeholders
• Support Delivery and Software Engineering teams to maintain standards, drive transparency and deliver effectively and efficiently.
• Partner with the Performance Office to drive consistency and efficiencies, ensuring adherence.
• Relationship management to successfully manage key stakeholders, taking into account their levels of influence and key drivers.

Accountabilities

Working in partnership with group technology function and the business to:

• Drive continuous improvement in processes and controls, working within the Performance team to drive consistency and transparency across the group.
• Ensure there are governance structures that define clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for governance and delivery of change initiatives, ensuring alignment with organisational practice.
• Prepare and maintain schedules for activities and events for the portfolio, maintaining a holistic view of dependencies and resource requirements. Identification and resolution of challenges, escalating where needed.
• Forecast and track actual costs against budgets, ensuring appropriate project financial controls are maintained. Identification and resolution of challenges, escalating where needed.
• Build, produce, & run timely portfolio reporting, ensuring it is effective, insightful reporting and adds value.
• Facilitate and support RAID reviews, ensuring timely management and appropriate escalation.
• Provide the collective management of current and proposed projects/products.

This role may require travel and working from multiple sites/locations. Willing and able to travel to participate in meetings, workshops, and other related activities.

Desired Qualifications

Formal project management certification; ideally one or more of the following P3O, PMP, APM, Agile, SAFe or Scrum.

Skills

• Forming strong stakeholder relationships, with a proven ability of influencing and persuading internally and externally.
• Experience of working within a hybrid delivery environment with Programmes, Projects and Product teams.
• Effective stakeholder management, balancing and finding compromises between opposing views and opinions.
• Business partnering, working as a valued partner with senior stakeholders across a diverse operation, delivering a value-added service to business customers.
• Extracting requirements from business stakeholders and documenting them in a succinct manner.
• Ability to recognise priorities and guide others towards the accomplishment of strategic business goals and objectives
• Embracing and managing both business and IT change as necessary to help shape future direction.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Identifies and contributes to the continual improvement of analysis
• capability across the organisation.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Experience

• Experience in a central PMO role, overseeing portfolio and product delivery, using both bespoke and out of the box tools and applications to manage resources, implementation planning, reporting and change.
• Demonstrable experience of end to end portfolio management. Including oversight of multiple, concurrent projects and deadlines, delivering in pressured environments.
• Proven track record of helping define, implement and coach project, programme and product processes and best practices.
• Demonstrable experience of effective project or programme financial management.
• Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools:
• Portfolio Management Office tools and techniques.
• Admin of PPM tool and techniques.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Teams).
• Experience of operating across multiple countries and cultures is desirable, but not essential.