Strategic Portfolio Manager - Cross-Functional Initiatives

Ball Corporation; Luton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ball Corporation is seeking a proactive professional to join the EMEA Strategy & Agenda team in the UK, providing flexible support during parental leave. You will lead cross-functional strategic initiatives, coordinate resources, and drive data-led insights to support sustainable growth.

Responsibilities include translating analytics into recommendations, preparing management reviews, and enabling global collaboration with analytics, commercial, operations and finance teams.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education in business, science, engineering, analytics or a related discipline.
• Experience leading programmes or significant cross-functional projects within a global organisation or complex business environment.
• Experience coordinating multicultural and geographically dispersed teams and senior stakeholders.
• Experience turning data and analysis into business recommendations and management communications.
• Experience working across commercial, strategy, operations, supply chain, finance or analytics environments.
• Strong data literacy and the ability to understand, interpret and communicate analytical outputs.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end strategic initiatives and complex cross-functional programmes and projects.
• Coordinate internal and third-party resources to deliver agreed outcomes on time, within scope and within budget.
• Develop clear project scopes, objectives, plans, milestones and governance with relevant stakeholders.
• Manage dependencies, resources, risks, issues, changes and decisions across assigned workstreams.
• Monitor performance, maintain project documentation and report or elevate to management as required.
• Support strategy deployment by driving key initiatives that contribute to sustainable business growth.
• Help maintain portfolio visibility, including progress, risks, dependencies, decisions and resource requirements.
• Support the Director Strategy & Agenda with programme management processes, tools and templates that enable regional and global collaboration
• Analyse and interpret data from multiple business sources to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Translate analytical outputs into clear business insights, recommendations and compelling narratives for business stakeholders.
• Support the preparation of business reviews, presentations, management updates and strategic discussions.
• Work with analytics, commercial, operations and finance teams to convert data into actionable business decisions.

Skills

Project management

Programme management

Data literacy

Business insight generation

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Degree-level education in business/science/engineering/analytics or related discipline

Tools

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Job description

Ball Corporation is seeking a proactive professional to join the EMEA Strategy & Agenda team in the UK, providing flexible support during parental leave. You will lead cross-functional strategic initiatives, coordinate resources, and drive data-led insights to support sustainable growth.

Responsibilities include translating analytics into recommendations, preparing management reviews, and enabling global collaboration with analytics, commercial, operations and finance teams.