Portfolio Manager (PMO)

  • Project Management
  • 2 years ago
  • £ 450-500 Per Day
  • London , England, United Kingdom
  • Contract (6 Months)

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Job Description

This is contract role of 6 Months (Extendable) based in London, United Kingdom. This role is initially remote and flexible. You must be eligible to work in the UK.

  • 12+ Years of experience ideally as a Portfolio Manager/Program Manager.
  • Will be responsible for collaborating with Technical and leadership teams to define, prioritize, and govern projects across the portfolio.
  • Should be able to connect the Portfolio to Enterprise Strategy and maintain a portfolio vision.
  • Planning, setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables.
  • Define metrics/KPIs for monitoring and measuring portfolio performance.
  • Define standards, PPM tools, and processes for Portfolio governance
  • Gather data about project progress and produce reports with actionable insights.
  • Identify ways of automating the information/ data for portfolio level review 
  • Understand and drive optimization in the overall process flow from onboarding, active development to offboarding of programs under the portfolio
  • Should be able to Analyse financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation and derive reports that provide actionable insights
  • Providing financial reports and budget outlines to Executives
  • Strong understanding of Agile methodologies – Scrum, SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management
  • A Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification may be advantageous.

Along with the above, knowledge on any of these would be useful to have:-

  • Microsoft Project PMM
  • Digital.ai VersionOne
  • Planview
  • Clarity
  • ServiceNow
  • Jira Align