Main characteristics
- Location
- Leeds, West Yorkshire
- Company
- Comoro
- Employment type
- Permanent
- Category
- IT
Job summary
Portfolio ManagerLocation: Hybrid/Yorkshire
Package: Very Competitive Basic, Bonus and Benefits
Job brief
Our client is the worlds leading member-owned, not-for-profit protection organisation. They are currently going through a substantial business and technology transformation, building the framework and infrastructure for present and future demands.
We seek an experienced Portfolio Manager to lead a team of Project Managers. Owning one or more programmes from inception through to handover to business, ensuring the delivery of specified products and services within agreed time, quality and cost parameters.
Your focus is to provide leadership; act as coach and mentor to Project Managers to ensure adherence to preferred hybrid delivery methodologies (agile/waterfall)
Responsibilities
* To build and maintain strong relationships with the business, senior stakeholders and external stakeholders and PMO to ensure the delivery and governance of a portfolio or programmes of transformation to agreed scope, time, cost and quality.
* Work with Programme sponsors to define measures and gain business buy in for adoption of deliverables to ensure programme benefits are defined, agreed, and accepted and can be tracked.
* To effectively champion and support change processes and tools to ensure best practice is adopted across the wider change team
* To provide and manage appropriately controlled environments and release management process to support change programmes
* Quality Management of the Delivery Approach (continual challenge and/or improve organisation, process and delivery)
* Keep abreast of evolving legislation and best practice..
* Undertake other duties and tasks that from time to time may be allocated to the jobholder
Requirements and skills
* MSP Qualification
* Agile PM Qualification
* Proven experience of managing business change or digital delivery programmes working in collaboration with 3rd party suppliers and internal IT teams
* Significant experience in portfolio / programme management.
* Leadership and development of people within a change management function
* Leading and managing complex teams /or business units in a matrix structure
* Problem solving in collaboration with business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and partners
* Managed programmes with 6 and 7 figure budgets
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