Senior Portfolio Manager

TLT LLP; Bristol; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

TLT LLP in Bristol is seeking a Senior Portfolio Manager to join the Transformation and Operations team on a fixed-term 12‑month basis. You will drive delivery maturity, oversee project teams and provide strategic coaching to ensure high-quality, user-centred transformation across the firm.

You will work with Directors and Partners to embed standards, shape the change roadmap and deliver programmes spanning technology, operations and strategy.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading complex transformation programmes.
• Ability to coach and mentor delivery teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Comfortable working with Directors and Partners.

Responsibilities

• Build trust with internal and external stakeholders.
• Set clear performance expectations for delivery teams.
• Deliver change management strategy aligned to the roadmap.
• Manage resource allocation across the portfolio.
• Ensure governance, processes and standards are followed.
• Guide business case creation with defined scope and benefits.
• Identify and mitigate portfolio risks and issues.
• Oversee full programme lifecycle with onsite presence when needed.
• Implement tools to measure and reinforce desired behaviours.
• Advise Head of Transformation and Operations as needed.

Skills

Portfolio management

Change management

Team leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Job description

We are recruiting for a Senior Portfolio Manager to join our Transformation and Operations team in Bristol.

This role is being offered on a fixed-term basis of 12 months.

This is a key position within Transformation and Operations where you will be working with stakeholders across the firm, including Directors and Partners to embed a culture of high-quality, user-centred transformation.

The Senior Portfolio Manager will drive the maturity of the firm’s delivery of transformation, and overseeing the project delivery teams, currently made up of Project Managers and Business Analysts, to deliver technological, strategic and operational programmes and projects.

The role will provide strategic direction, coaching and hands on support to ensure robust standards are continually met to achieve consistent high-quality delivery.

The Senior Portfolio Manager will play a key role in shaping the future of operational change within the firm, with autonomy to influence how we deliver and build a high-performing team.

Responsibilities

• Your Role Quickly build the necessary trust, credibility and relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Set clear performance expectations for all project delivery teams, creating a high-performing, collaborative culture.
• Work in partnership with the Senior Change Manager to deliver the change management strategy and approach, aligned to the firm’s strategy and transformation roadmap.
• Collaborate with the Senior PMO Manager to manage resource allocation across the portfolio, change requests to in-flight activity and ensure projects have continued alignment to the firm’s strategy.
• Ensure cohesion within the team demonstrated by consistent high-quality delivery, business readiness and alignment to the required governance, processes and standards.
• Provide guidance on business case creation, ensuring clear scope from the outset, strategic alignment and measurable benefits.
• Identify and mitigate portfolio level risks and issues, by working closely with the team to spot emerging themes and solutions.
• Overseeing delivery for the full programme lifecycle, which will include team representation onsite at one of our UK offices during critical phases.
• Implementation of tools and techniques to encourage, reinforce and measure desired behaviours.
• Be a model for high quality project delivery standards across the firm, develop, lead and implement processes, governance and documents in line with the firm’s Operational Change Playbook.
• Act as a trusted advisor to, and at times deputising for, the Head of Transformation and Operations, contributing to departmental planning and portfolio evolution.

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in successfully leading complex change programmes both personally and via your team.
• Strong ability in managing and developing teams to become high performers.
• Strong experience in business change management and ensuring operational readiness.
• Developing and managing change, resource, risk and issue management and benefit realisation processes.
• Analytical skills to enable managing multiple priorities, and problem solving to achieve high-quality outputs.
• Strong influencing and dynamic interpersonal skills.
• Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity and able to challenge the status quo confidently.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrable understanding and awareness of different organisational change and process improvement models and approaches.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to think creatively and strategically and see the big picture.
• Excellent workload management and prioritisation skills.

About TLT Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.

Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients, recognised as their 1st tier adviser and being valued for our values.

We do this in our unique way by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious fo