Senior Portfolio Manager

Cancer Research UK; London Borough of Newham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cancer Research UK is seeking a Senior Portfolio Operations Manager to lead financial management across a complex fundraising technology portfolio. You will forecast, budget, control costs and own supplier relationships end-to-end, ensuring value for money and robust governance.

Collaborating with Finance, Procurement and Legal, you’ll drive insights, scenario modelling and investment decisions, streamline processes, and enable delivery teams to move faster while maintaining clarity and

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing financials, suppliers and contracts within large-scale technology environments.
• Strong financial acumen with budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost control.
• Experience collaborating with Finance, Procurement and Legal teams.
• Ability to embed and manage supplier relationship management approaches.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial management across a complex technology portfolio, including forecasting, budgeting and cost control.
• Own supplier relationships and manage contracts end-to-end, ensuring value for money.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement and Legal to deliver robust commercial governance.
• Drive portfolio insight through financial analysis, risk management and scenario modelling.
• Improve operational processes to reduce friction and increase clarity for delivery teams.
• Support smaller cross-team initiatives and contribute to business cases and investment decisions.

Skills

Financial management

Forecasting

Budgeting

Cost control

Supplier management

Contract management

Commercial governance

Financial analysis

Risk management

Scenario modelling

Process improvement

Business case development

Investment decision support

Stakeholder communication

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Portfolio Operations Manager to play a critical role in enabling the successful delivery of our Fundraising Technology priorities. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you'll act with ambition, courage and determination to bring clarity, rigour and operational excellence across financial, commercial and supplier management. Working collaboratively across Technology, programme leadership and corporate teams, you'll remove barriers, improve processes and ensure investment is well managed helping accelerate progress towards our mission to beat cancer. What will I be doing?

• Lead financial management across a complex technology portfolio, including forecasting, budgeting and cost control
• Own supplier relationships and manage contracts end-to-end, ensuring value for money
• Partner with Finance, Procurement and Legal to deliver robust commercial governance
• Drive portfolio insight through financial analysis, risk management and scenario modelling
• Improve operational processes to reduce friction and increase clarity for delivery teams
• Support smaller cross-team initiatives and contribute to business cases and investment decisions Proven experience managing financials, suppliers and contracts within large-scale technology environments
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost control
• Experience working effectively with Finance, Procurement and Legal teams
• Ability to embed and manage supplier relationship management approaches
• Strong organisational and orchestration skills across complex environments
• Clear communicator, able to present financial and commercial insights to a range of stakeholders

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do. Act with ambition, courage and determination Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism Human: Act to have a positive impact on people Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.