Portfolio Delivery Manager

Midland Heart Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Midland Heart Ltd in Birmingham is seeking a Portfolio Delivery Manager to provide strategic delivery leadership across directorates, mobilise initiatives and ensure delivery capability is in place. You will lead a multidisciplinary team and work with senior stakeholders to shape demand and embed change.

You will also ensure oversight of performance, investment and risks, while maintaining focus on outcomes and benefits across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex projects and organisational change.
• Proven ability to coach and develop multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience acting as a senior delivery partner to Directors or senior leaders.
• Focus on outcomes and benefits over outputs.
• Experience overseeing a portfolio across multiple initiatives including budgets and risks.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary delivery team.
• Senior delivery partner to Directors, Sponsors and Business Owners.
• Identify, explore and shape emerging change with directorate leaders.
• Maintain oversight of delivery performance, investment, resources, risks and benefits.
• Mobilise approved initiatives with sponsorship and delivery capability.
• Provide oversight and escalate where needed; manage cross-project dependencies.

Skills

Portfolio delivery

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategy & change

Risk & benefits tracking

Education

APM PMQ

PRINCE2 Practitioner

MSP

Job description

Can you lead complex change while keeping people, investment and organisational outcomes firmly in view? We're looking for experienced Portfolio Delivery Managers to provide strategic delivery leadership across our directorates.

About the role

You'll work in partnership with Directorate leaders to understand emerging demand, shape potential initiatives and oversee the successful mobilisation, delivery and embedding of approved change.

You'll also lead a multidisciplinary team of Project Delivery Managers, Business Analysts and Business Change Partners, ensuring the right capability is deployed at the right time. Alongside portfolio oversight, you'll retain the ability to personally lead selected initiatives where required.

What will you be doing?

• Lead, coach and develop a multidisciplinary delivery team.
• Act as a senior delivery partner to Directors, Sponsors and Business Owners.
• Work with directorate leaders to identify, explore and shape emerging change.
• Maintain oversight of delivery performance, investment, resources, dependencies, risks, readiness, outcomes and benefits.
• Mobilise approved initiatives and ensure appropriate sponsorship, ownership, resources and delivery capability are in place.
• Provide oversight and constructive challenge across projects, intervening where additional leadership or escalation is required.
• Maintain oversight of financial performance and resource/capacity requirements across your directorate portfolio.
• Bring together Project Delivery, Business Analysis and Business Change capability throughout the change lifecycle.

What will help you succeed?

• A recognised delivery management qualification such as APM PMQ, PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP or equivalent, or comparable professional competence gained through substantial leadership experience.
• The ability to lead and develop different professional disciplines as one effective delivery team.
• Strong commercial judgement and an understanding of investment, financial performance and organisational capacity.
• Confidence operating with senior leaders, providing constructive challenge and driving accountability where necessary.
• An ability to see interdependencies across projects, directorates and functions and address barriers that extend beyond an individual initiative.
• A strong focus on ensuring change delivers the intended outcomes and benefits.

Our ideal candidate?

• Significant experience leading complex projects and organisational change across varying levels of complexity and risk.
• A track record of line managing, coaching and developing multidisciplinary teams.
• Evidence of operating as a senior delivery partner to Directors, Sponsors or other senior organisational leaders.
• A strong focus on outcomes and benefits rather than simply completing project outputs.
• Experience of overseeing performance across a portfolio or multiple initiatives, including financial performance, resources, dependencies and delivery risk.

This role is based at our Bath Row office in Central Birmingham, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office and the option to work the remaining days from home.

Why Midland Heart?

We're one team working together for our tenants. We're a large, ambitious housing organisation providing people with an affordable place to call home.

You’ll be joining our Programmes & Project Delivery team in a senior delivery role, working closely with directorate leaders and leading multidisciplinary teams to shape, mobilise and deliver change across Midland Heart.

We expect a lot from our people, but in return you’ll find a supportive and rewarding workplace where great people can thrive.

• Applications Close: 16th October 2026

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Please feel free to contact us if you'd like to discuss any adjustments you may need to support you through our recruitment process.