Portfolio Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Successfully delivers programmes of high complexity, leading by example, being visible and accessible, and setting the tone and pace for the programme:
• Clearly communicates engagement goals and success criteria, clearly specifies required outcome
• Sets clear priorities, maintains focus upon the critical path.
• Establishing a coherent, supportive, and effective working relationship with all stakeholders.
• Ensuring that we operate in a contractually compliant manner throughout; similarly ensuring that the client meets their obligations.
• Establishing effective and proportionate governance and controls.
• Ensuring that a clear and objective assessment of programme performance is regularly, clearly, and accurately reported.
• Understanding and safeguarding the critical path.
• Anticipating and mitigating risk, resolving exceptions wherever they arise.
• Maintaining focus upon benefits tracking and realisation throughout delivery.
• Meeting or exceeding commitments regarding programme success criteria.
• Takes ownership of, and leads client and subcontractor engagements:
• Being the ‘figure head’ for the programme
• Engaging client, and subcontractor stakeholders, building and nurturing positive, sustaining relationships at all levels of the programme.
• Communicating effectively and influencing positive outcomes.
• Gaining insight in respect of client culture and values, adapting their own and team engagement with the client.
• Understanding the client business case
• Directing and engaging the programme team to optimise client satisfaction.
• Exemplifying and role-modelling the Codec values.
• Applying effective team and people management skills, to construct, shape, engage, and optimise performant programme teams.
• Engaging the team, engendering trust and confidence, building a positive team culture.
• Coaching, guiding, and directing Senior Project Managers and PMO Leads.
• Influencing, organising, and directing the programme team.
• Being willing to confront and challenge poor performance and encourage team members to contribute ideas.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Demonstrate a depth and breadth of commercial, financial, and risk management experience and to display acumen in each of these areas
• Have a direct influence on the profitability of the program
• Introduce innovation and efficiency in the delivery of programmes; pro-actively identify and mitigate avoidable cost
• Drive successful commercial and financial outcomes
• Embed and ensure contractual compliance
• Ensure effective risk identification, risk management, and risk mitigation across the programme
• Apply sound judgement, anticipating opportunities and threats, taking proportionate action in a timely fashion