Portfolio Lead - Sheffield

FDM Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

FDM Group is seeking a Portfolio Strategy and Planning Lead to support strategic outcomes within a global financial services client. This role will focus on managing demand and aligning funding to drive delivery of strategic priorities while engaging with stakeholders at all levels. This hybrid position is based in Sheffield, offering an initial contract of 5 months with potential for extension.

Qualifications

• Experience in portfolio strategy and delivery for complex change portfolios.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders at C-suite level.
• Understanding of financial management across large budgets.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of strategic portfolio outcomes aligned with business objectives.
• Develop business cases and engage with senior stakeholders.
• Manage portfolio budgets to meet an annual operating plan.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Planning

Risk Management

Change Management

Job description

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FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Portfolio Strategy and Planning Lead to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 5-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in Sheffield.

As a Portfolio Strategy and Planning Lead, you will enable decentralised delivery, minimising dependencies, and maximising collaboration across the client’s Chief Technology Office (CTO) areas. The client is looking for someone who can manage demand more effectively, ensuring they are working towards the right strategic priorities and who can support alignment of funding and capacity to drive the delivery of strategic outcomes.

The role will report to the Head of CTO Change Portfolio Management and work closely with the CTO Transformation and Change Leads and wider teams/stakeholders to deliver common objectives.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall delivery of strategic portfolio outcomes supporting business vision and purpose through complex and global change portfolios.
• Owns CTO portfolio strategy and ensures organisational strategic requirements and priorities are understood, documented, and are supported by technology architecture roadmaps and vendor strategy.
• Ownership and delivery of strategic planning cycles across change portfolios to ensure financial investment decisions support CTO long-term strategy, risk appetite, and align with the client's strategy and future business/customer needs.
• Development of business cases and benefit validation to support transformation, strategic initiatives, and to support fast-paced business responses to emerging threats and opportunities.
• Develop and drive regular engagement with senior stakeholders at C-suite and director level, to influence and deliver CTO vision and strategy.
• Support the management of risks across CTO by ensuring portfolio risks, issues, and dependencies are managed effectively and senior stakeholders are informed/updated where appropriate.
• Assist in managing portfolio budgets to help CTO meet its annual operating plan of approximately $2bn P&L across 65 countries, including identification and delivery of savings opportunities across portfolios as required.
• Ensure that CTO can meet committed outcomes by working with engineering teams to align supply to meet forecasted demand pipelines.