Michael Page Technology

An exciting opportunity to work for an award-winning Housing Association in Central London with occasional travel to Norfolk. The business is now looking for an experienced Operational Portfolio Manager to join their growing team on a fixed term basis (12-month), working to design and deliver the Programme governance including reporting, benefits tracking and more.

Client Details

By investing in people and places, this organisation provides a range of award winning community services and have a large network of partners to support their work.

Description

• Maintain a view of overall programme progress (using leading and lagging indicators)
• Manage dependencies of varying complexity, planning and feeding into the larger programme and project portfolios
• Remove blockers and manage risks related to commercial performance, benefit tracking and any assigned programme budgets
• Balance objectives and make recommendations to redeploy people and resources as priorities change
• Be responsible for understanding, managing and communicating benefit realisation priorities to complex stakeholder groups across different workstreams
• Design and define the approach to benefits capture and tracking, working closely with the Finance Team
• Design, setup and run programme level governance
• Design and coordinate reporting for key governance forums

Profile

• Demonstrable experience in a similar position working on a variety of multi-dimensional programmes delivering transformation projects
• Demonstratable and extensive experience in effective use of benefits management techniques
• Experience of managing senior stakeholders

Job Offer

• Salary of up to £74,000
• Hybrid and flexible working options (with occasional travel to the London offices)
• Up to 24 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays
• A generous healthcare and pension plan