Digital & AI Portfolio Manager

KBR, Inc; Leatherhead; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Competitive salary

Holiday entitlement

Pension scheme

Professional development

Life Assurance

Private healthcare

Bonus scheme

Cycle to work

Rail ticket loan

Job summary

Frazer-Nash Consultancy seeks a Digital & AI Portfolio Manager to shape and govern its integrated Digital & AI portfolio within a regulated environment. You will prioritise, sequence and govern digital products, data initiatives, automation and AI programmes to deliver value and support strategic objectives.

The ideal candidate will lead portfolio management, provide evidence-based recommendations to senior stakeholders and work with product owners, delivery teams and business stakeholders to

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading portfolio or programme leadership in digital, data, AI or change.
• Experience governing integrated portfolios with demand, sequencing and dependencies.
• Proven ability to develop value cases and benefits tracking.
• Experience creating governance materials for senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to manage ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio governance across Digital & AI initiatives to ensure value delivery.
• Prioritise demand, sequencing and investment decisions with stakeholders.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations and governance packs for leadership.
• Collaborate with product owners, delivery teams and business partners.
• Drive continuous improvement of portfolio management practices.

Skills

Portfolio management

Digital & AI

Stakeholder management

Governance

Senior leadership

Education

Professional qualifications in portfolio, programme or project management

Job description

Title: Digital & AI Portfolio Manager Digital & AI Portfolio Manager

Salary: £59,000 - £69,000

Location: Any Frazer-Nash office location with flexible hybrid working between office, client sites and home.

Closing date: 16th September 2026

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.

Essential Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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

Frazer-Nash is a leading systems, engineering and technology company.

We help organisations deliver innovative engineering and technology solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable.

With over 1000 employees, we work from a network of nine UK and four Australian locations.

Our people apply their expertise to develop, enhance and protect our clients' critical assets, systems and processes.

We use our skills and talents to ensure a sustainable future for society.

Our work helps deliver a safe and secure world, where natural resources are conserved, and clean energy is available to all. And we focus on actions to reduce climate change; supporting rapid and far-reaching transformations in the delivery of energy, security, industry, and transport.

At the heart of our business are a set of self-defined core values. These are part of our DNA and we’re committed to upholding them – internally as part of our Frazer-Nash family; in the way we work with our customers; and when we engage with the wider world.

We care At Frazer-Nash, we care about each other; always looking to collaborate and see things from the other person’s point of view

We offer mutual support, learn from one another, and work as a team to deliver the best results Everyone has a voice, and we all make the time to listen

We will work with openness and collaborate effectively – thinking about our clients and our people, and responding to their needs

We care about the difference we make to the wider world. We are trusted Effective collaboration is founded upon trust. We earn the trust of our customers and colleagues by delivering on the commitments we have made to them.

We deliver success We deliver value and success to our customers and to our business. We continually strive to be the best at what we do. We want to do things that matter We seek out interesting and satisfying work that helps makes a difference in society We use your expertise to provide trusted, impartial professional advice to our clients

By making a difference to today, we benefit the world of tomorrow – so we can all go home each day knowing that we’ve done something that really mattered.