Portfolio Manager, Enterprise Transformation Management Office

Corporate Centre, IS Central Functions Centrica PLC; Windsor; Híbrido; GBP 85.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Centrica plc is seeking a Senior Portfolio Governance Lead to own governance, reporting and performance across Group Functions. You will shape executive-facing materials, consolidate delivery metrics, benefits and risks, and provide assurance on investment cases and approvals.

You will partner with senior leaders to drive maturity in governance practices, improve reporting tools, and ensure alignment with Group standards while supporting a flexible hybrid work model with travel to Reading as

Formación

• Strong analytical and numerical skills with the ability to turn data into executive insight.
• Experience producing high-quality Board and senior leadership reporting.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, investment, risks, dependencies and benefits realisation.
• Experience overseeing significant transformation or change budgets and providing investment oversight.
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with senior leaders.

Responsabilidades

• Lead portfolio governance and manage the governance cycle for the Group Functions Portfolio Board, ensuring clear decisions and alignment with Group standards.
• Shape Board-level reporting with high-quality packs, dashboards and executive papers that translate complex portfolio information into clear insights and actions.
• Drive portfolio performance by consolidating delivery, benefits, investment, risks and dependencies across the portfolio.
• Support investment decisions by reviewing business cases and proposals for quality and readiness for approval.
• Manage portfolio risks and dependencies with an integrated view and timely escalation and resolution.
• Drive portfolio maturity by improving governance, reporting, tools and ways of working across Group Functions.
• Connect the portfolio as a central coordinator across transformation teams to inform portfolio-level choices.

Conocimientos

Analytical skills

Board reporting

Portfolio governance

Stakeholder management

Transformation experience

Executive communication

Descripción del empleo

What you'll be doing:

• Lead portfolio governance - manage the governance cycle for the Group Functions Portfolio Board, ensuring clear decision-making, effective stage-gate governance and alignment with Group standards.
• Shape Board-level reporting - produce high-quality Board packs, dashboards, decision papers and executive reporting that turn complex portfolio information into clear insights and actions.
• Drive portfolio performance and insight - consolidate performance across the portfolio, tracking delivery, benefits, investment, risks, dependencies and emerging trends.
• Support investment decisions - review business cases and investment proposals, providing assurance over quality, completeness and readiness for approval.
• Manage portfolio risks and dependencies - maintain an integrated view of key risks, issues and cross-portfolio dependencies, ensuring timely escalation and resolution.
• Drive portfolio maturity - continuously improve governance, reporting, tools and ways of working, embedding leading portfolio management practices across Group Functions.
• Connect the portfolio - act as a central point of coordination across transformation teams, helping leaders see the bigger picture and make informed portfolio-level choices.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Strong analytical and numerical skills, with the ability to turn data into meaningful executive insight.
• Experience producing high-quality Board and senior leadership reporting.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, investment, business cases, risks, dependencies and benefits realisation.
• Experience overseeing significant transformation or change budgets and providing effective investment oversight.
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the confidence to work effectively with senior leaders.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale transformation and improving portfolio management capability.
• A practical, continuous-improvement mindset and a passion for making governance simpler, clearer and more effective.

Location:

We operate a Flexible First approach, empowering colleagues to work in the way that works best for them. The role can be predominantly home-based, but flexibility to travel to our Reading site when required will be needed.

Why should you apply?

We’re not a perfect place – but we’re a people place. Our priority is supporting all of the different realities our people face. Life is about so much more than work. We get it. That’s why we’ve designed our total rewards to give you the flexibility to choose what you need, when you need it, making sure that you and your family are supported not only financially, but physically and emotionally too.

If you're full of energy, fired up about sustainability, and ready to craft not only a better tomorrow, but a better you, then come and find your purpose in a team where your voice matters, your growth is non-negotiable, and your ambitions are our priority. Help us, help you. We would love for you to share any information about yourself throughout our recruitment process so that we can better understand you and help shape your journey.

We’re looking for people to add to our culture – not fit in with it.

We're building a community where you can be unapologetically you, where differences are celebrated, and where everyone can belong.

Real inclusivity also means supporting the different realities our people face. That’s why we have the UK’s best Carers Policy and are continually building our approach to flexibility and wellbeing.

Of course, we love having fun too. We’re a people place after all.