Join us as a Portfolio Manager
- We’ll look to you to understand and use Agile and DevOps principles, allowing sufficient flexibility for the portfolio to evolve as customer value is proven and the needs evolve
- You’ll be managing a rolling investment portfolio to realise the strategic objectives of the enterprise or domain by providing investment planning, the transformation portfolio and design services
- This is a great opportunity to take on a role in an innovative, forward thinking environment where you’ll be able to have a tangible effect on the function
- We're offering this role at vice president level
What you'll do
As a Portfolio Manager, you’ll be defining and developing a portfolio structure to provide appropriate governance, control and management of the enterprise-wide portfolio, domain portfolio or platform portfolio, including any associated interdependencies.
You’ll collaborate with domain leads, release train managers, product owners and enterprise architects to conduct regular reviews of the investment portfolio and backlog, challenging the status quo and driving informed decision making about portfolio priorities.
You’ll also be:
- Making sure that investments are identified and prioritised from the enterprise-wide portfolio or domain backlog relating to the minimum viable product, providing value to the customer and bank as early as possible
- Partnering with a range of stakeholders to ensure an accurate, rolling pipeline view of investment
- Using a constant feedback of velocity rather than a fixed plan, understanding the value that is being generated is maintained, used and kept under regular review
- Defining, creating and leading the financial and resource management
- Making informed decisions around resourcing of the portfolios, including any necessary scaling up or down of feature teams
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll need knowledge and experience of portfolio management theories, models and practices, including scaled Agile frameworks and Prince 2 methodologies, within an Agile or DevOps environment.
In addition, you’ll need:
- An appropriate portfolio management qualification, such as Prince 2 with Agile, Agile or SaFE Portfolio Management
- The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues
- Knowledge of Fieldglass and Oracle along with standard role requirements
- Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
07/05/2025
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
