Head of Strategic Portfolio Delivery

myGwork - LGBTQ+ Business Community; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading LGBTQ+ business community as the Head of Strategic Portfolio Delivery, driving alignment between strategy and execution. This hybrid role offers a unique opportunity to influence organisational effectiveness and lead a team in a dynamic environment focused on inclusivity and performance.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus

Private healthcare

Generous holiday allowance

Family Friendly Policies

Support for LGBTQIA+ community

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex change or transformation portfolios.
• Skilled in governance, prioritisation, and benefits realisation.
• Experience in engaging with senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead prioritisation process and align investments with strategy.
• Monitor portfolio performance and report to senior leadership.
• Ensure adherence to standardised portfolio management processes.

Skills

Strategic programme management

Governance

Cross-functional delivery

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Proven experience in large, matrixed environments

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This job is with RS Group, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Location: This role is offered on permanent basis. It is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our London, Corby or Manchester office.

We are seeking a Head of Strategic Portfolio Delivery to join RS Group plc. This is a unique opportunity to drive alignment between strategy and execution across the organisation, ensuring investments are prioritised effectively and portfolio management processes are standardised and embedded.

You will lead the Group Prioritisation process, ensuring strategic initiatives are deliverable and affordable. You will also be the custodian of standardised programme and project management practices, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across the portfolio. Reporting to a member of the Finance Leadership Team, this is a senior leadership role with wide-reaching impact across all functions and regions.

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the Group-wide prioritisation process, aligning investments with strategy, capacity, and affordability.
• Own the Integrated Delivery Plan, highlighting key risks, dependencies, and ensuring realistic delivery timelines.
• Design and govern finance submission processes for organic investment and prioritisation reviews.
• Maintain and audit adherence to standardised portfolio and project management processes.
• Monitor and report portfolio performance to senior leadership, including milestones, health, and budget.
• Lead the Portfolio Review Forum and provide strategic leadership across programmes and functions.
  
  

About You

• Proven experience leading complex change or transformation portfolios in large, matrixed environments.
• Strong understanding of strategic programme management and cross-functional delivery.
• Skilled in governance, prioritisation, and benefits realisation with a results-oriented mindset.
• Excellent communicator and influencer, comfortable engaging at all levels of the organisation.
• Analytical and able to drive clarity and alignment in fast-paced, complex settings.
• Experience managing and developing high-performing teams, ideally across a matrix structure.
• Happy to roll your sleeves up and actively participate in delivery of outputs.
  
  

The Extras You’ll Get

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQIA+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery.
  
  

We Are RS Group

RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.

Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital.

We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities.

RS is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive. We recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their true selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and retain the best talent.

In line with our D&I policy, we recruit and develop employees who are the best suited to the requirements of the job role, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

• Industries

  Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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