The Role
The Portfolio Manager is responsible for delivering complex programmes, managing stakeholder engagement, overseeing programme performance, and ensuring contractual compliance.
Summary Generated by Built In
Codec are looking for a Portfolio Manager to join their team.
Key Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
- 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
At least 5 years' recent experience of successfully delivering complex programmes; and evidence of successful delivery of programmes utilising waterfall, agile and hybrid method
- 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
About
Established over 40 years ago, Codec is a multi-award-winning Microsoft Solutions Partner, trusted by public and private sector organisations to deliver impactful digital transformation. With offices in Dublin, Belfast, Cologne, and across Germany, our team of over 300 experts specialises in harnessing the full potential of Microsoft technologies—including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure, and Copilot—to drive innovation, automation, and operational excellence. Codec combines deep industry expertise with a proven track record to help organisations unlock the power of AI and modern cloud solutionsThough originally best known as a hardware reseller, since 2010 Codec has focused on building an outstanding software consulting business with a team of experts implementing enterprise solutions using products from Microsoft and Oracle. Our customer base, revenues and average contract values have grown steadily year on year and we continue to invest in the provision of new product and service offerings.Our team is a careful mix of recent graduates and experienced professionals from a variety of diverse cultural backgrounds. We are a melting pot of seasoned consultants supported by the best talent from the local universities. We have a thriving placement student academy and graduate recruitment programme which grows year on year.This company is an equal opportunities employer
Skills Required
- At least 5 years' recent experience of successfully delivering complex programmes
- Experience with waterfall, agile and hybrid methods
- Depth and breadth of commercial, financial, and risk management experience
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 1985 and headquartered in Ireland, Codec is a high-growth, leading technology company with offices in Dublin, London, Belfast, and Malta. With a team of over 300 dedicated professionals, we are committed to delivering innovative solutions based on the Microsoft low-code platform. As current Microsoft country partner of the year (for the 4th time), Codec specialises in providing business applications, artificial intelligence, and cloud infrastructure on the low-code Microsoft platform to organisations in the Public and Healthcare sectors. Beyond technology Codec actively supports sustainability and our chosen charities, Ruhama and Flourish.
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