Senior Portfolio Analyst

SubSea Craft Limited; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Annual Bonus

Life Assurance

Annual Leave 25 days + BH

Christmas Shutdown

Wellbeing Day

Family Leave

Private Healthcare

Professional Development

Flexible Working

Inclusive Culture

Job summary

SubSea Craft Limited in the UK is seeking a Portfolio Analyst/PMO professional to turn outcome, schedule, cost and workforce data into actionable insights for senior leadership decision-making.

Reporting to the Head of Portfolio Control, you will strengthen data capture, hygiene and reporting, drive continuous improvement, and support governance boards across multiple engineering and defence programmes, engaging with senior stakeholders to align plans, risks, and financials.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a portfolio analyst/PMO role within engineering, marine, shipbuilding, defence or similar complex delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, scheduling, cost tracking, dependency management and performance reporting.
• Attention to detail with focus on data accuracy, hygiene and consistency of reporting.
• Able to collaborate with diverse, time-constrained teams using emotional intelligence.
• Degree or equivalent professional qualification and relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Gather KPI, schedule, cost, risk, dependency and workforce data to maintain dashboards and produce actionable insights for senior leadership.
• Support portfolio governance, financial controls, and delivery frameworks to keep initiatives aligned to scope, schedule and budget.
• Collaborate across teams to identify, assess and categorise new initiatives, providing visibility of portfolio demand and priorities.
• Act as a bridge between program teams, risk managers, finance and senior stakeholders to align plans and information.
• Drive portfolio maturity and continuous improvement in data capture, reporting standards and schedules.
• Coordinate portfolio reporting, analyse performance trends, and support governance boards and senior reviews.
• Capture and maintain visibility of interdependencies for critical path analysis, milestones and forecasts.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Reporting

PMO governance

Risk management

Change tracking

Education

Degree level education

Tools

Jira

Power BI

Job description

Who we are: SubSea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

What We Offer

• Pension Contribution - Pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice.
• Annual Bonus Scheme - Eligibility to participate in the company's annual discretionary bonus scheme, linked to individual and company performance.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover - Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Annual Leave - Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Christmas Leave - A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Wellbeing Day - An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Family Leave - Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Private Healthcare - Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Professional Development - Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Flexible Working - Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work-life balance.
• Inclusive Culture - A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.

Role Overview

This role requires someone confident working across multiple projects and programmes to turn outcome, schedule, cost, and workforce data into meaningful insights for senior leadership decision-making. Reporting to the Head of Portfolio Control, the role will be central to improving the maturity of the function by strengthening data capture, hygiene, alignment, and reporting. The successful candidate will bring the experience, judgement, and initiative needed to help shape the portfolio control capability in this rapidly expanding organisation.

Responsibilities Will Include

• Data, Insight and Reporting: Gather KPI, schedule, cost, risk, dependency, and workforce data from across the portfolio to maintain accurate dashboards, interpret complex program information, and produce clear, actionable insights for senior leadership decision-making.
• Portfolio and PMO Governance: Support adherence to portfolio governance, financial controls, and delivery frameworks, helping to ensure initiatives remain aligned to agreed scope, schedule, budget, outcome, and decision-making requirements.
• Initiative Intake and Portfolio Visibility: Collaborate across teams to identify, assess, and categorise new and incremental initiatives, supporting a clear view of portfolio demand, priorities, and trade-off implications.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Alignment: Act as a connective tissue between program teams, risk managers, finance, control functions, and senior stakeholders to keep plans, risks, assumptions, financial information, and reporting aligned.
• Portfolio Maturity and Continuous Improvement: Drive improvements in data capture, hygiene, synchronisation, reporting standards, scheduling tools, and ways of working, helping the function do the basics well and evidence portfolio performance with confidence.
• Governance Board Support: Coordinate portfolio reporting, analyse performance trends, highlight risks and exceptions, and provide support to the Head of Portfolio Control for governance boards and senior leadership reviews.
• Schedule, Cost and Dependency Control: Capture and maintain visibility of interdependencies across projects and programmes, enabling critical path analysis, portfolio milestone planning, forward-looking schedule forecasts, and alignment between outcomes, schedule data and financial forecasts.
• Portfolio and PMO Governance: Support adherence to portfolio governance, financial controls, and delivery frameworks, helping to ensure initiatives remain aligned to agreed scope, schedule, budget, outcome, and decision-making requirements.

Qualifications And Experience

• Extensive experience in a portfolio analyst, PMO, program controls, or program management role, ideally within engineering, marine, shipbuilding, defence, or another complex, emergent delivery environment.
• Good understanding of portfolio and PMO governance, including program scheduling, cost tracking, dependency management, change delivery reporting, financial controls, and performance reporting.
• High attention to detail, with a commitment to improving the accuracy, reliability, hygiene, and consistency of portfolio data and reporting.
• Able to employ emotional intelligence to collaborative with diverse technical, time challenged teams.
• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent professional qualification, training, or relevant experience.
• Proficient in portfolio management, reporting, and data visualisation tools, including Jira, Power BI, and other relevant analytics or dashboarding platforms.
• Confident communicator with strong stakeholder engagement and coordination skills, able to present complex information clearly and concisely to technical, delivery, and senior leadership audiences.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify root causes, challenge data quality, resolve discrepancies, and make evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to collect, interpret, reconcile, and analyse complex PMO data to produce meaningful insights and recommendations.

Note: Due to the nature of work undertaken at SubSea Craft, the selected candidate must be capable of meeting the security requirements of the position, which would include as a minimum existing right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), with UK National security clearance required for certain roles.*

Values: Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.

What We Expect From You

• Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
• Initiative and independent working
• Honesty and integrity
• Business and commercial awareness
• Agility, adaptability and continuous development

We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know. *Please note that all offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre-employment checking stages.

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