Location: London
Position type: Contractor until end of November 2027 - Inside IR35
What the hiring manager says
The GSMA’s Advocacy campaigns create distinctive portfolio management challenges that require forward-looking vision, robust delivery planning and strong stakeholder coordination. The department’s top priority is to support enabling policy and regulatory environments that allow people, industry and society to thrive. The team governs, manages and reports on project progress at all levels, providing critical project management expertise across the wider GSMA Advocacy department. This enables teams to engage effectively with governments and regulators around the world and deliver results that advance the interests of the mobile industry.
This role will play an important part in supporting the high-impact delivery of the World Radiocommunication Conference campaign, with a particular focus on two pivotal industry events in 2027.
About the Team
The team brings together professionals from project coordinators to portfolio managers, working through matrixed teams to deliver results for our members. This role will be matrixed into the Spectrum team to support the planning and delivery of the WRC and CPM portfolio of work.
About the role
As part of the Advocacy team, the Portfolio Manager will strategically manage activities that deliver results across multiple portfolios, planning and executing projects that support GSMA’s key objectives.
Implement key strategic activities, supported by effective resource planning, to drive results for WRC-27
Manage and lead multiple activities to deliver results for the WRC-27 campaign
Manage and ensure delivery of cocktail receptions, lunchtime seminars, stand build and stand management for and during CPM27-2 and WRC-27
Develop and deliver Advocacy plans, accurately assessing budget, time and cost requirements
Oversee the execution of deliverables and maintain the strategic focus of the Spectrum portfolio to achieve desired outcomes
Capture and report on key results, producing high-quality reports for business leads and senior management
Apply and communicate risk management approaches to senior stakeholders, advising on appropriate mitigations to support effective decision-making
About You
The ideal candidate will bring the following qualities and experience:
Tenacious and driven to achieve best-in-class results, using appropriate and effective project management practices
Confident working with Asana and accredited with project management methodologies
Experience delivering global portfolios
Able to adapt skills and management approaches in a changing environment, applying strong portfolio and change management capabilities
Proven stakeholder planning and management skills, demonstrated through effective communication, planning and execution with internal and external multinational stakeholders
Experience working in international and cross-cultural environments, including the delivery of on-the-ground events
Strong escalation and stakeholder management skills, ensuring issues are identified and raised in time for mitigations to be applied
Able to lead complex projects and portfolio-level activities, achieving ambitious goals through effective resourcing and management
Well versed in procurement and contract management, with strong commercial acumen
Role models the GSMA’s values, contributes to a positive working environment and can be relied upon to consistently follow through on commitments
Contract type
Short term ContractorWorker type
Contingent WorkerWhat We OfferWorking at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.
To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.
Being You at the GSMA
We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.
GSMA Values
Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.
Passionately driven
We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
Insightful leaders
We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
Stronger together
We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.
Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.
Skills Required
- Proven portfolio and project management experience delivering global portfolios
- Confident working with Asana
- Accredited with project management methodologies
- Experience delivering on-the-ground international events (stands, receptions, seminars)
- Strong stakeholder planning, escalation and management skills with multinational stakeholders
- Resource planning and commercial acumen, including budget, time and cost assessment
- Well versed in procurement and contract management
- Ability to capture and produce high-quality reports for business leads and senior management
- Apply and communicate risk management approaches and advise on mitigations
- Ability to lead complex projects and maintain strategic portfolio focus
What We Do
The GSMA is a global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Our vision is to unlock the full power of connectivity so that people, industry and society thrive. We operate through three main pillars: Connectivity for Good engages members, governments and civil society, to advance positive policy and spectrum outcomes, facilitate digital innovation to reduce inequalities in our world, and tackle today’s biggest societal challenges such as digital inclusion, climate change and sustainability. Industry Solutions supports the technology and interoperability that make mobile work. For instance, we assist the industry’s development in areas such as 5G, Mobile IoT, fraud and security, through our projects, working groups and other collaborative activities. Our events provide successful ways of bringing the ecosystem and adjacent industries together, to make strong business connections and drive positive impact. From the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event, MWC, in Barcelona, Shanghai, Las Vegas and Africa, to the growing M360 series that has a more regional focus.
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