Senior Portfolio Management Consultant

AXA UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global insurer is seeking a Senior Portfolio Management Consultant in London to lead transformation initiatives, align business objectives, and manage stakeholder relationships. This hybrid role offers flexibility and a supportive environment in a company dedicated to employee wellbeing and inclusion.

Benefits

30 days holiday a year

Flexible working options

Private medical insurance

Pension with employer contributions

Family friendly policies

Cycle-to-Work scheme

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading portfolio management services in large organizations.
• Strong track record in managing diverse change portfolios.
• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and influence decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the shaping and direction of transformation objectives across business areas.
• Ensure business initiatives align with company strategy and enterprise architecture.
• Engage with senior executives to provide strategic guidance.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Business Transformation

Coaching for success

Communication

Cost Management

Critical Thinking

Influencing

Intentional collaboration

Managing performance

Navigating ambiguity

Project Resource Management

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Planning

Waterfall Model

Working Independently

Job description

• Location: London
• Type: Permanent, full time
• Hybrid role, happy to talk flexible working

The Opportunity:

Are you passionate about shaping strategic transformation across complex portfolios? We’re looking for a Senior Portfolio Management Consultant to lead the interface between our CTO function, business portfolio owners, and CIO transformation leads. This role is pivotal in enabling the development of our transformation portfolio, defining initiative roadmaps, and ensuring successful initiation and delivery.

You’ll work across diverse business units, providing thought leadership and maintaining an enterprise-wide view of our holistic portfolio. Your insights will help align strategic themes with actionable initiatives, while identifying key interdependencies and risks.

Your New Role:

• Lead the shaping and direction of transformation objectives across business areas (e.g., Claims, Insurance), building senior stakeholder consensus.
• Ensure business initiatives align with company strategy and enterprise architecture impacts are understood.
• Develop holistic portfolio capability views to inform initiative sequencing and prioritisation.
• Shape portfolio initiatives and support transition to delivery teams, ensuring alignment across stakeholders.
• Identify complex, high-risk, or cross-functional programmes and enable successful outcomes.
• Actively contribute to Steering Committees, monitoring progress and resolving issues.
• Engage with senior executives to understand emerging priorities and provide strategic guidance.
• Advocate for governance frameworks that ensure consistent oversight and assurance across the portfolio.

About you:

• Significant experience leading portfolio management services in large, global, and mature organisations.
• Strong track record in managing diverse change portfolios across multi-disciplinary areas.
• Broader change experience gained working in consultancy services including business architecture experience, is ideal
• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and influence decision-making across business units.
• Experience in initiative shaping and early-stage delivery planning alongside managing senior stakeholder relationships and navigating complex challenges.
• Skilled in navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and cross-functional delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks and their role in successful change delivery.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Why QBE? At My Best

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation (https://qbeeurope.com/careers/flex-qbe/).

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate, and kind.

To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our careers website.

At My Best - QBE Benefits

You are more than your work – and QBE is more than a workplace, which is why we provide you with the benefits, support and flexibility to help you concentrate on living your best life personally and professionally.As well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you!

• 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
• Flexible working - balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours.
• Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.
• Private medical insurance – we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all the family.
• Family friendly policies – we offer 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or how you become a parent.
• Short term remote work abroad - you can request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.
• Sustainable investing - we believe sustainable integration is important for long term financial, environmental, and social outcomes. Our pension strategy supports our net-zero goal to achieve year-on-year reductions in carbon footprint, by investing more in green businesses than the broader market, so your savings are looking after the planet's future, as well as your own.
• Cycle-to-Work – benefit from regular exercise whilst making your commute greener and cheaper, select and bike and/or accessories up to the value of £5,000.

To find out more visit ourReward Page

QBE Awards

Some of the award’s QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include;

• AXCO Global Insurance Awards 2024 Winner: Network Management of the Year
• Insurance Business UK 5-Star Cyber Awards 2024: QBE rated as a 5-Star Cyber Insurer
• UK IT Industry Awards 2023 Winner: Green Technology Innovation of the Year
• Working Dads Employer Awards 2023 Winner: Parental Policies Award
• Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2023: QBE rated as a 5-Star Employee

You can view all our awards here

Inclusion of Diversity

We are striving to create a workplace culture where all our people feel included, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we operate in.We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent. For more information on our strategy targets please take a look at our Careers Page

Accessibility

Here at QBE, we are promoting an accessible workplace for all, which includes supporting candidates to perform at their best during their recruitment process. If you require any accommodations, please make your Talent Acquisition contact aware.

ESG & Sustainability

At QBE, we believe that integrating sustainability into our business helps us deliver on our purpose of enabling a more resilient future.Our three key focus areas include fostering an orderly and inclusive transition to a net-zero economy, enabling a sustainable and resilient workforce, and partnering for growth through innovative, sustainable, and impactful solutions. For further information regarding QBE’s sustainability targets, including our net-zero pledges and inclusion of diversity targets, and our award-winning impact investment initiative ‘Premiums4Good’, please visit our Sustainability homepage and read our latest Sustainability Report

What next?If you have a passion to contribute to QBE’s vision of enabling a more resilient future for our customers and the community, we encourage you to apply! Simply click the “apply” button to submit your CV and other relevant documents, and a member of our friendly Talent Acquisition team will be in contact to discuss your interest further if you meet the requirements of the role.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too?

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen!

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Business Transformation, Coaching for success, Communication, Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Influencing, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Navigating ambiguity, Project Resource Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Planning, Waterfall Model, Working IndependentlyApplication Close Date: 07/08/2025 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.