Technology Retail Portfolio Manager (11 months)

Royal Bank of Scotland; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh seeks a Technology Retail Portfolio Manager on a fixed-term basis (11 months). You will oversee a technology investment portfolio, driving strategic objectives for the business, franchise and function.

You will build and maintain strong stakeholder networks, manage planning, budgets and delivery risks, and report to senior leadership while working in a hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing technology portfolios or programme governance.
• Experience with budgets up to £60m and financial forecasting.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and senior reporting skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a Technology investment portfolio and realising strategic objectives.
• Provide investment planning, transformation portfolios and design services.
• Engage with stakeholders to maintain a clear pipeline of tech investment requirements.
• Identify and manage risks and dependencies affecting the portfolio.

Skills

Portfolio management

Financial analysis

Excel

Pivot tables

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Programme governance

Budget management

Risk management

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Join us as a Technology Retail Portfolio Manager (11 months)

This is an opportunity for a driven Portfolio Manager to take on a new, exciting career challenge in which you'll be accountable for Technology's complex and critical portfolios. You'll have the chance to build and maintain a strong network of stakeholders of varying seniority. Put your existing project management skills to the test and take advantage of our fantastic development opportunities. We're offering this role on a temporary basis until November 2027.

What you'll do

You will be accountable for the management of a Technology investment portfolio, realising strategic objectives of the business, the franchise and the function.

You'll also:

• Provide and manage investment planning, transformation portfolios and design services.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure an effective pipeline view of technology investment requirements are maintained, used, and kept under regular review.
• Understand the programme and project risks and how they may impact the Technology portfolio.

The skills you'll need

We're looking for an experienced Portfolio Manager with the ability to manage and analyse financial data to support effective decision-making. You'll bring experience using Excel for financial tracking and forecasting, including pivot tables, formula creation and data analysis.

You'll also need:

• Demonstrable experience managing a technology portfolio or programme governance, including RAID, milestones, dependencies, assurance and senior reporting.
• Proven experience managing programme finances, including budgets of £60m, forecasts, actuals, Capex/Revex, variance analysis and resource cost.
• Evidence of producing financial and delivery insight for senior decision-makers, including identifying risks, opportunities and recommended actions.
• Experience supporting multiple programmes or investments concurrently, balancing competing priorities, dependencies and deadlines.
• Demonstrable experience working across technology, finance, risk, business and third parties to resolve issues and maintain effective delivery controls.
• Evidence of constructively challenging plans, forecasts or assumptions and driving actions through to resolution.
• Experience of contract and third-party risk management, including CIOM, IRQs, BCAPs, BCP, SOC reporting and management of non-deliverable contractual obligations, associated risks and mitigations.

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

06/11/2026

Ways of Working:

Hybrid