Portfolio Manager

Base Location: Reading or Glasgow

Salary: £600-£700 per day

Working Pattern: Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30pm

We are on the hunt for a Portfolio Manager who excels in integrating planning, project control governance, risk, and opportunity management across a diverse project landscape. This role is not just about oversight; it's about insight and foresight-anticipating challenges, identifying opportunities, and ensuring seamless alignment with our business objectives. If you have experience of driving project portfolios to new heights and thrive in a busy, ever-evolving environment, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of our enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Safety is our number one priority - demonstrate safety leadership and promote a positive safety culture.
• Support Capital Projects in achieving safety targets and implementation of S.H.E Plan to ensure S.H.E KPI's, metrics, and reports are accurate, up to date and that actions are closed in a timely fashion
• Provide leadership to the Distributed Energy programmes to integrate planning, governance and project controls across their programmes of work.
• Monitor and assure the delivery of project outcomes across the Capital Projects portfolio to time, cost, quality, ensuring any variances are highlighted and actioned.
• Assess and trouble shoot project schedules to ensure appropriateness and robustness for achieving programme outcomes.
• Responsible for coordination and submission of consolidated key risks and issues for the business unit Portfolio on a monthly basis.
• Responsible for preparation and submission of consolidated KPIs for the business unit Investment Committee and Project Review Board.
• Update and improve methodologies, work instructions, policies, standards and procedures for project controls.
• Provide co-ordination and visibility of performance against budget and business plan targets.
• Provide insight to the business unit leadership team and Enterprise Executive Committee and other key stakeholders on programme performance and risk.

• Proven experience in the successful management and assurance of major programmes of work in the construction or utility infrastructure industries.
• Proven commercial focus and financially astute.
• Detailed knowledge of the principles of investment processes and procedures.
• Detailed knowledge of the principles of Health & Safety, quality and environment legislation and best practice.
• Experience of successful management in a matrix structure.
• Knowledge and application appropriate assurance models.
• Demonstrable experience of confidently building strong, diverse internal and external networks to unblock issues and achieve progress.
• Demonstrable experience of promoting team agendas, breaking down barriers and focussing on the best outcomes.
• Significant experience of creating clear standards, delegation and empowering others.
• Demonstrable ability to differentiate between strategic and operational issues, collaborating with a range of external stakeholders and colleagues.
• Highly developed stakeholder management skills including engaging, influencing and negotiating.
• Excellent problem solver with an analytical mind.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.

What happens now?

After submitting your application for the Portfolio Manager role, we understand you're eager to hear back. We value your time and interest, and you can expect to receive a response from us within 72 hours to discuss your application's suitability and the next steps in the recruitment process. We appreciate your patience and look forward to the possibility of welcoming you aboard.

Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.