Digital Portfolio Manager

Company Description

For over 20 years, Abcam has been providing tools the scientific community needs to enable faster breakthroughs in critical areas like cancer, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, and metabolic disorders.

We believe that to continue making progress, we need to work together in new ways. We need your own unique perspective as well as this of our people to make an always greater impact on the world. This community needs people like you: dedicated, agile and above all audacious so we can truly bring progress forward.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and proactiveDigital Portfolio Manager who will be instrumental in the strategy, governance, tracking and evolution of the Digital Portfolio and it's change initiatives. Ensuring we select the right initiatives to pursue and that those initiatives deliver to time, cost and value. 

About the team

The Digital Transformation Office team is the information hub for all Digital Products, Projects and Programmes, and involves tracking/reporting, assurance/quality control, information management, financial tracking, risk/issue tracking, change control, support and knowledge management; learning & development, alongside Digital Strategy, SOx/ITGC compliance, & Strategic Vendor Management.

The role involves:

Governance:

• Support the definition and evolution of governance standards across the portfolio
• Manage the portfolio level risks and issues register.
• Carry out assurance review processes, as required

Planning & Reporting:

• Deliver against our long-term Portfolio Strategy, ensuring we can support data-driven decisioning on our investment decisions.
• Supported by data-driven decisioning, manage the ‘change funnel’ for Digital to ensure we can respond to requests with insights into whether and how we may be able to solve problems or meet opportunities for our Digital and broader Abcam associates.
• Support the communication and sharing of change standards across both technical and management to support our Programme, Project and Product Managers (PPP Managers).
• Engage with PPP Managers across the portfolio to drive up understanding of data and insight standards and enhance compliance.
• Ensure continued validity of our Strategic Roadmap for the year.
• Support communication of and engagement with more detailed-level plans
• Lead internal ‘events’ including regular portfolio updates and 90-Day Roadmap Reviews.

Portfolio Management:

• Support and manage engagement with and sharing of new processes and insights such as continued visibility of value tracking.
• Support the rollout and move into Product Management of Atlassian Cloud, to ensure we maximise value from the platform, and manage the backlog of requests from users.
• Provide effective management support to the Product Domain Leads
• Ensuring project, product domain and portfolio plans are created and maintained, and deliverables tracked.
• Monitor and report on portfolio progress to all stakeholders
• Manage portfolio-level risks, issues and change control, communicating the impact to all relevant parties
• Monitor the portfolio against time, budget and quality standards

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an exceptional PMO or Strategic Portfolio Manager, who will have a minimum of 5 years of experience in Digital/IT Strategic Portfolio Management. You will have a can do attitiude and be highly proactive. You will be a problem solver and will build strong and trusted relationships to influence the right outcomes. You will be able to challenge appropriately at all levels of the organisation. 

 Additional competencies and knowledge:

• Working knowledge of standard project management, product management and reporting systems, across both waterfall and agile methodologies
• Data-literate, able to support gathering and collation of data across multiple systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to analyse and use data to deliver outcomes or support decisions
• Experience in identifying, diagnosing and proposing solutions
• Adaptability to change when needed and comfortably adapt to new priorities
• Strong organisational and multitasking skills with ability to balance competing priorities
• Good attention to detail

If this sounds like you and you’d like to be a part of a fast paced, growing business with the vision to become the most influential company and best-loved brand in life sciences please apply now!

Additional Information

We know that when it comes to benefits, no one size fits all. Flexibility and choice matter which is why, in addition to market competitive salaries, we offer you a flexible benefits package which is tailored to your unique needs and support your financial, physical and emotional wellbeing. This includes 18 weeks fully paid maternity leave, 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave as well as highly flexible working and much more. Besides, your development will be integral to your experience here. You will grow alongside other talented minds, in ways you may often find unexpected.

When people come together, incredible things happen. Here you’ll work in a safe environment where you can be who you truly are. We’ll champion and celebrate your uniqueness throughout your journey with us. This is how we excel at partnering with the scientific community no matter the challenge, ultimately helping solve the world’s most critical diseases. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Abcam.

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