Portfolio Manager

Stanton House; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanton House is seeking a Portfolio Manager to oversee a diverse portfolio of programmes and projects, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities, optimal investment, and delivery of business value. You will collaborate with senior leadership, sponsors and finance teams to steer decisions and maximise outcomes.

The role requires strong commercial and strategic thinking, the ability to balance competing priorities, and a track record in PMO or programme delivery within a large, multi-project

Qualifications

• Proven experience across a portfolio of enterprise-wide project management, PMO or programme delivery.
• Strong experience in portfolio strategy, investment prioritisation, resource allocation and benefits realisation.
• Demonstrable commercial and financial acumen with experience assessing business cases, investment performance and portfolio value.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage a portfolio of projects, programmes and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with business strategy and expected benefits.
• Evaluate and prioritise investment opportunities to reflect strategic objectives and value.
• Monitor portfolio performance against objectives, milestones and benefits, identifying value opportunities.
• Oversee portfolio budgets, investment profiles and resource allocation aligning with priorities.
• Maintain oversight of portfolio risks, issues and interdependencies affecting objectives.
• Ensure benefits are defined, tracked and realised, challenging initiatives where value or alignment is not achieved.
• Influence decisions and drive accountability with senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Provide consolidated portfolio insights and recommendations to senior management on investment and direction.
• Identify opportunities to improve portfolio effectiveness and strategic alignment.

Skills

Portfolio management

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

PMO experience

Education

MoP

MSP

Job description

Hybrid role: 3 days a week in Birmingham

The Portfolio Manager will be responsible for overseeing and managing a multitude of portfolio of business projects, programmes and strategic initiatives, ensuring that investment, resources and delivery activity are aligned with wider organisational objectives and strategic priorities.

The individual will provide strategic oversight of the portfolio, ensuring that initiatives are appropriately prioritised, balanced and managed to deliver maximum business value. This will include evaluating investment opportunities, monitoring portfolio performance, assessing business benefits and ensuring that resources are directed towards the organisation's most important strategic objectives.

Working collaboratively with senior leadership, executive sponsors, programme and project managers, finance teams and wider business stakeholders, the role will support strategic decision‑making, provide visibility of portfolio performance and ensure that investment decisions deliver the intended business outcomes.

The individual will need to demonstrate strong commercial and strategic awareness, with the ability to assess competing priorities, challenge investment decisions and adapt portfolio strategies in response to changing business requirements, financial constraints and organisational priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Portfolio Management: Oversee and manage a portfolio of projects, programmes and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with business strategy, organisational priorities and expected benefits.
• Strategic Planning and Prioritisation: Evaluate and prioritise investment opportunities, ensuring portfolio decisions reflect strategic objectives, business value, capacity and available resources.
• Portfolio Performance: Monitor overall portfolio performance against agreed objectives, financial targets, milestones and expected business benefits, identifying opportunities to maximise value and improve outcomes.
• Financial and Resource Management: Oversee portfolio budgets, investment profiles and resource allocation, ensuring funding and resources are directed towards the highest‑priority initiatives.
• Risk and Dependency Management: Maintain oversight of portfolio‑level risks, issues and interdependencies, ensuring potential impacts on strategic objectives and investment outcomes are understood and addressed.
• Benefits Realisation: Ensure expected business benefits are clearly defined, tracked and realised, challenging initiatives where value, outcomes or strategic alignment are not being achieved.
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with senior leadership, executive sponsors and business stakeholders to influence decisions, maintain strategic alignment and drive accountability across the portfolio.
• Portfolio Reporting: Provide consolidated portfolio insights and recommendations to senior management, supporting informed decisions around investment, prioritisation, performance and future direction.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve portfolio effectiveness, investment decisions and strategic alignment, ensuring the portfolio continues to deliver maximum organisational value.
• Adaptability and Resilience: Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, ambiguous and evolving environment, demonstrating flexibility, resilience and the ability to navigate changing priorities while maintaining strategic focus and momentum.

Background and Experience

• Proven experience across a portfolio of enterprise wide project management, PMO or programme delivery, ideally within a large, complex, multi‑project business environment.
• Strong experience in portfolio strategy, investment prioritisation, resource allocation and benefits realisation.
• Demonstrable commercial and financial acumen, with experience assessing business cases, investment performance and portfolio value.
• Experience working with senior leadership and executive stakeholders to influence strategic decisions and align portfolio activity with business objectives.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking and decision‑making skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities and optimise portfolio performance.
• Relevant portfolio or programme management qualifications (e.g. MoP, MSP or equivalent) would be advantageous.