As the UK’s largest independent full fibre network and wholesale platform of choice, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.
Our network is greener, more reliable and designed for the future. The products we run over it lead the way on speed, value and service - helping businesses to innovate, communities to thrive, and people to live more connected digital lives.
At CityFibre, you’ll be part of something bigger, helping to build a better-connected Britain, together.
Job DescriptionJoining us as a Portfolio Project Manager
A hands‑on Portfolio Project Manager responsible for delivering complex initiatives end‑to‑end, ensuring strong governance, stakeholder alignment, and performance across cost, time, quality, and benefits.
You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.
This is some of what you can expect to be doing:
- Deliver end-to-end projects to agreed scope, time, cost and quality objectives
- Maintain robust project plans, risks, dependencies and change control throughout the project lifecycle
- Assess the impact of project changes and provide recommendations to support effective decision-making
- Manage budgets, forecasts and performance reporting, ensuring strong governance and visibility across delivery
- Coordinate stakeholders, suppliers and cross-functional teams to drive successful implementation and benefits realisation
What you’ll bring to the role
Strong project delivery expertise, financial discipline and stakeholder management, with the ability to lead complex change, establish effective delivery structures and provide confidence in project outcomes.
You’ll also have:
- Proven experience delivering large-scale, complex projects within a portfolio environment
- Strong planning, risk and dependency management skills, with experience developing and maintaining detailed project plans and delivery roadmaps
- A solid understanding of cost, time, quality and scope management, with the ability to assess the wider implications of project decisions and changes
- Experience producing high-quality project documentation, governance artefacts and executive-level reporting
- Confidence embedding project management best practice and supporting teams to adopt effective planning, governance and delivery disciplines
Life at CityFibre
Everyone deserves to feel heard, valued and truly included. Working alongside our Employee Communities, we’re committed to creating a workplace where people feel a genuine sense of belonging and pride in what they do. That’s why we’re proud to be a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, endorsed by WORK180, a Disability Confident Leader, a Care Leaver Friendly Employer, and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.
We’ll support you to thrive inside and outside of work, with opportunities to grow your career and a flexible benefits package that adapts to your life – including generous annual leave (with an extra day off on your birthday), private medical insurance, health cash plans and family‑friendly policies.
Find out more about our culture, communities and benefits on our careers site.
We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!
Skills Required
- Proven experience delivering large-scale, complex projects within a portfolio environment
- Strong planning, risk and dependency management skills and ability to develop detailed project plans and delivery roadmaps
- Solid understanding of cost, time, quality and scope management and ability to assess implications of project changes
- Experience producing high-quality project documentation, governance artefacts and executive-level reporting
- Financial discipline with experience managing budgets, forecasts and performance reporting
- Stakeholder management and ability to coordinate suppliers and cross-functional teams
- Ability to embed project management best practices and support teams to adopt effective planning and governance
What We Do
At CityFibre, we’re building a new, intelligent, open-access fibre network, purpose built for the data age. We’re upgrading communities across the country, giving people a better foundation for their digital lives, enabling businesses to innovate, and helping to strengthen the UK economy. Our national networks are expanding rapidly, and we are already the network of choice for major Internet Service Providers and mobile operators including TalkTalk, Three, Vodafone and Zen, as well as dozens of exciting smaller providers. Using our networks, our customers can provide theirs, be they homes, businesses, schools, or hospitals with broadband, Ethernet and mobile connections so quick and reliable, you can practically take them for granted. With almost two million premises already passed, our fully financed rollout programme is on track to serve a third of the UK. That’s around 8m homes, 800k businesses, 400k local authority sites and 250k 5G access points that will soon have access to the UK’s finest digital infrastructure
