Digital & AI Portfolio Manager

Frazer-nash View All Jobs; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Happy To Talk Flexible Working

Competitive salary

25 days' holiday entitlement

Company pension scheme

Targeted professional development

Life Assurance

Private healthcare membership

Bonus scheme linked into company perf.

Paid membership fees to a professional

Cycle to work scheme

Share purchase scheme

Season rail ticket loan

Job summary

Frazer-Nash Consultancy seeks a Digital & AI Portfolio Manager to shape and govern a multifaceted portfolio of digital products, data initiatives, automation and AI programmes. The role requires evidence-based leadership, strong governance, and the ability to prioritise complex initiatives across regulated environments.

The ideal candidate has a track record in portfolio or programme leadership within digital or enterprise transformation, with experience in demand management, benefits tracking

Qualifications

• Experience leading portfolio or programme governance in digital/technology environments.
• Ability to develop value cases, benefits realisation frameworks and performance reporting.
• Proven track record of prioritising, sequencing and managing capacity across multiple initiatives.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management with evidence-based recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Govern and optimise a complex Digital & AI portfolio and prioritise investments.
• Provide evidence-led advice to senior stakeholders on risk, dependencies and benefits.
• Coordinate demand intake, sequencing, capacity management and governance packs.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with product owners, delivery teams and business stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement of portfolio management practices and reporting frameworks.
• Present governance recommendations to senior leadership and enable informed decision making.

Skills

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Governance

Value realisation

Risk management

Agile delivery

Senior leadership collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

At Frazer-Nash, we empower endeavour for great results. Our Digital & AI team helps clients and the wider business deliver sustainable progress through digital innovation, data-driven decision making, automation and artificial intelligence. We are looking for an experienced Digital & AI Portfolio Manager to play a key role in shaping and governing our integrated Digital & AI portfolio in a complex, regulated and assurance-led environment. This is a senior position responsible for ensuring Digital products, Data MI initiatives, Automation and AI programmes are prioritised, sequenced and governed effectively to deliver value and support strategic business objectives. You will provide evidence-led advice to senior stakeholders, helping them make informed decisions around investment, risk, dependencies, capacity and benefits realisation. Working across a diverse portfolio of Digital & AI initiatives, you will shape business priorities, oversee governance excellence and provide leadership for portfolio management practices across the function. This is an exciting opportunity to guide the future direction of Digital & AI delivery within Frazer-Nash and help realise the value of strategic technology investments. The ideal candidate will have a strong portfolio, programme or business change leadership background, with experience that should include several of the following:

• Managing and governing complex digital, technology, data, automation or AI portfolios.
• Managing portfolio demand, prioritisation, sequencing and investment decisions.
• Developing value cases, benefits realisation frameworks and performance reporting.
• Managing capacity, dependencies, risks and competing priorities across multiple initiatives.
• Producing decision-ready governance packs and recommendations for senior leadership teams.
• Working closely with product owners, delivery teams, technical leads and business stakeholders to ensure good outcomes.
• Providing guidance and direction where business cases, delivery readiness or benefits assumptions require improvement.
• Supporting portfolio-level planning, governance and continuous improvement activities.
• Helping to deliver transparency, accountability and value-focused decision making across a portfolio.
• Building and embedding effective portfolio management practices, frameworks and ways of working.
• Significant experience in portfolio or programme leadership within digital, technology, data, automation, AI or business change environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing integrated portfolios, including demand intake, prioritisation, sequencing, capacity management and dependency management.
• Demonstrated experience developing value cases, benefits tracking approaches and delivery confidence reporting.
• Experience preparing governance materials and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Good analytical skills with the ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities and complex dependencies.
• Experience operating within agile, product, programme and governance delivery environments.
• Solid communication, reporting and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to engage senior stakeholders constructively using evidence, insight and clear recommendations.
• Experience developing portfolio management capability, governance routines and best practice.
• Strategic mindset with a clear focus on value, outcomes, risk management and delivery confidence.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable Requirements

• Experience working within regulated or assurance-led environments.
• Experience managing Digital, Data, AI or enterprise transformation portfolios.
• Knowledge of portfolio management methodologies, frameworks and governance models.
• Experience tracking and reporting benefits realisation at portfolio level.
• Experience supporting investment planning and business case development.
• Understanding of Digital, Data, Automation and AI delivery lifecycles.
• Experience developing portfolio dashboards, reporting frameworks and decision-support tools.
• Exposure to risk, security and assurance processes within complex organisations.
• Professional qualifications in portfolio, programme or project management.
• Experience coaching and mentoring colleagues on portfolio management principles and best practice.

Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

We provide our people with a comprehensive benefits package that comprises:

• Happy To Talk Flexible Working
• Competitive salary
• 25 days' holiday entitlement
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Company pension scheme
• Targeted professional development
• Life Assurance
• Private healthcare membership
• Bonus scheme linked into company performance
• Paid membership fees to a professional institution
• Support in attaining professional membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Share purchase scheme
• Season rail ticket loan