Senior Manager Portfolio & PMO

The organisation

Our client is a pioneer in the world of consumer technology and growing fast. They have a problem-solving approach to everything they do.

The Strategy, Platforms and Enablement team have overall responsibility for ensuring full alignment of the IT strategic plans with those of the broader organisation. Driving enabling platforms and services to ensure the broader service and product teams can deliver exceptional results and achieve the unimaginable. As Mission control for our IT organisation, the team will lead on the optimisation of resource across people, finances, and architectural principles to ensure the IT teams are focused on the right things at the right time and in the right way.

The position

The Senior Manager Portfolio provides ownership for ‘Mission control’ for the region with responsibility for providing an integrated and single view of work across the region – ensuring they are focused on the right things, at the right time in the right way. This includes providing services across Service Integration and Management, Portfolio and PMO.

Tasks & responsibilities

• Responsible for providing service integration and governance of pan pillar IT Service Delivery across the region
  • Producing service reports to drive best practice ITIL governance and to identify CSI opportunities
  • Provide on call support for weekend and national holidays in order to provide 24/7/365 pan pillar & core platform service owner support for major incidents/escalations
  • Provide major incident support for pan pillar & core platform services in a follow the sun approach
• Responsible for providing Portfolio and PMO services across the regional portfolio
  • Creates and provides accurate and timely information across the regional portfolio to enable effective control and decision making. The information “hub”.
  • Provides assurance to the regional IT Director and central team that appropriate action has been taken to deliver the regional portfolio benefits to time, cost, and quality
  • Tracking and reporting: Tracking KPIs and providing regular status updates and exception reports as required to ensure all key stakeholders are provided with the information, they require
  • Portfolio insight: Supporting management decisions through analysis and insights including lessons learned, risk and issues, financial forecasts, and other key information.

Candidate profile

You have proven experience managing a portfolio to support large strategic multi-functional programmes. You are knowledgeable of ITIL principles particular change, problem, incident, request fulfilment and knowledge management. You are familiar with PPM tools / packages e.g., Planview and have strong analytical skills with excellent computer literacy and numeracy. You have good understanding of programme and project management methods. Outstanding financial management, budgeting, and investment appraisal skills. Experience of developing and delivering IT Roadmaps and Programme Plans to meet business needs and operating within a global organisation with a proven ability to deliver against Group wide initiative. You possess strong interpersonal communication skills being able to interact with key IT stakeholders up to and including Director level.

The offer

Besides the salary they offer bonus, discount on their products, company pension and life insurance plan, 29 days annual holiday, fitness plan and an employee assistant programme.

Interested?

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