Portfolio Delivery Manager – Transport

La Fosse Associates; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 120,000; Full time

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Job summary

La Fosse Associates in London is seeking an IT Portfolio Delivery Manager to lead the Core IT portfolio and raise delivery maturity. This permanent role sits between Head of IT Delivery and delivery teams, across multiple operating companies, covering OT, infrastructure, platforms and new digital capabilities.

You will lead PMs and BAs, shape demand, improve forward pipeline, strengthen governance, and build stronger relationships with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Led complex portfolios of technology change.
• Strong people leadership with delivery teams.
• Experience in demand management, portfolio planning and prioritisation.
• Governance, risk, dependencies and delivery assurance capability.
• Managed resources and capacity across multiple projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management and constructive challenge.
• Experience across infrastructure, platforms, enterprise systems.
• Hands-on with mature delivery practices and pragmatic adoption.
• Commercial awareness including budgets, suppliers and third-party delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead a broad portfolio of Core IT projects and programmes.
• Coach and develop a team of PMs and BAs.
• Improve demand capture, shaping, prioritisation and delivery.
• Build a clearer forward pipeline of initiatives.
• Strengthen portfolio planning and capacity management.
• Improve delivery standards, governance and ways of working.
• Own portfolio risks, issues, dependencies and escalations.
• Build relationships across the business and anticipate needs.
• Collaborate with PMO, Architecture, Product and Security.
• Raise delivery consistency while keeping delivery outcomes.
• Shape and embed a mature delivery capability while delivering.

Skills

Portfolio management

Leadership

Delivery governance

Stakeholder management

Resource planning

Risk management

Budget awareness

Job description

Job Benefits: benefits

IT Portfolio Delivery Manager - Permanent

London | Up to £120,000 | 4 days per week onsite

A great opportunity for an experienced IT Delivery leader who wants to do more than simply run an established portfolio.

We're partnering with a major UK organisation making significant investment across IT and Transformation. They're building out a new leadership and delivery capability and are looking for an IT Portfolio Delivery Manager to lead the Core IT portfolio and help raise the maturity of how technology change is delivered across the business.

You'll lead a team of Project Managers and Business Analysts, sitting between the Head of IT Delivery and the delivery teams. The portfolio supports multiple operating companies and covers everything from operational technology and site mobilisations through to infrastructure, platforms and new digital capabilities.

The capability is there – what they need now is someone who can bring greater structure, consistency and leadership around it.

The role

This isn’t a Portfolio Manager role that is purely focused on governance and reporting. You'll be accountable for delivery while also helping mature the wider capability.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Lead a broad portfolio of Core IT projects and programmes.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of experienced PMs and BAs.
• Improve how new demand is captured, shaped, prioritised and brought into delivery.
• Build a clearer forward pipeline of well-shaped initiatives.
• Strengthen portfolio planning, resource management and capacity planning.
• Improve delivery standards, governance, assurance and ways of working.
• Own portfolio-level risks, issues, dependencies and escalations.
• Build strong relationships across the wider business and understand what is coming down the line before it becomes an urgent requirement.
• Work closely with PMO, Architecture, Product, Service, Information Security and wider business teams.
• Raise the consistency and quality of delivery without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Help shape and embed a more mature delivery capability while continuing to get things delivered.

Who we’re looking for

You’ll probably be operating as an IT Portfolio Manager, Portfolio Delivery Manager, Head of Delivery or senior Delivery Lead within a complex technology environment.

The sweet spot is someone who has:

• Led complex portfolios of technology change.
• Strong people leadership experience and a track record of developing delivery teams.
• Experience of demand management, portfolio planning and prioritisation.
• Strong governance, risk, dependency and delivery assurance capability.
• Managed resource and capacity across multiple concurrent projects.
• Excellent business stakeholder management and the confidence to challenge constructively.
• Worked across a broad technology portfolio, ideally including infrastructure, platforms, operational technology or enterprise systems.
• Seen mature delivery practices working well and can pragmatically introduce what is appropriate.
• Strong commercial awareness, including budgets, suppliers and third-party delivery.
• A hands-on approach and is comfortable operating in an environment where not everything is fully defined yet.

Experience from transport, travel, hospitality, retail, logistics or another operational/service‑led environment would be particularly interesting. We're also open to people coming from mature consultancy or technology service environments, provided you've owned delivery and business relationships rather than simply designed frameworks.

Why it’s interesting

This is very much a build and improve opportunity. The wider transformation programme is significant, the investment is there and the leadership team is looking for someone who can come in, bring greater structure and genuinely raise the maturity of IT Delivery. You'll have the opportunity to lead an established team while shaping how demand, portfolio planning and delivery operate going forward. It's a chance to have genuine influence over the function while still remaining close to delivery and seeing the impact of the changes you put in place.