Are you a highly experienced Portfolio Manager who is used to being at the forefront of leading a programme or portfolio management office?
Do you want to lead on some of the biggest digital transformation in the UK?
Are you an inspiring, engaging and enigmatic leader?
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment continually looking to evolve?
If so, please apply for our Senior Digital Portfolio Manager role.
As a Senior Digital Portfolio Manager, you will have an in depth understanding of and be able to promote, the strategic and organisational plans and vision for Digital, including comprehensive knowledge of a Director’s Business Plan and broad understanding of Digital’s Strategic aims and objectives.
You will ensure the portfolio of work is effectively aligned with strategic objectives, building a clear and comprehensive roadmap that delivers value and drives impactful results. By fostering collaboration across Digital, you will help teams focus on high-value initiatives and successful delivery outcomes.
Working with senior leaders you will drive effective prioritisation, and application of it to inform delivery decisions. Understand the performance and risk profile of work both in delivery and in pipeline, enabling you to provide high quality visibility and insight to stakeholders. Act as a 'critical friend' and advisor to senior leaders, supporting them with decision making and providing recommendations.
You will build strong partnerships with key stakeholders to set initiatives up for success, providing expert guidance during project shaping and assurance stages. By connecting delivery performance with broader dimensions, such as financial, architectural, and service insights you will create a comprehensive and forward-looking view that drives progress and mitigates risks.
You will have exceptional organisation skills and attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple streams of activity including drafting board level papers, analysing complex information and reporting on delivery, whilst ensuring a complex portfolio of projects is kept on track.
You will professionally manage stakeholders including senior leaders overseeing delivery of Board decisions and actions and taking ownership of all aspects of portfolio reporting, using multiple data sets and ensuring a common understanding of the status of delivery, risks and issues.
You will manage demand, advising and/or producing appropriate planning strategies and assisting with the project setup process, whilst taking ownership for identifying and prioritising new work that aligns to the Department's digital strategy, working across the Department and service teams in selecting projects based on a reliable assessment of the value that they will bring.
You will act as a Subject Matter Expert in supporting teams to manage governance and controls, creating governance roadmaps including supporting the planning of quality assessments and key governance milestones, identifying and managing inter-project dependencies, ensuring where delivery is at risk, actions are in place to mitigate. Your proactive approach to unblocking and escalating issues will keep initiatives on track, while your oversight of Board-level decisions and actions will enable seamless delivery.
You will lead and inspire your team, fostering a culture of excellence. You will lead your team in identifying future risks and blockers, helping to embed the use of tooling and information to spot planning and delivery risks, escalating to senior leadership across the Department where necessary.
You will have Community and Practice commitments, including recruitment, line management, coaching, identifying appropriate training and setting the standards and frameworks for your team.
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