Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where you'll be working?
The Head of Portfolio Management is a senior leader within the Strategic Projects and Management Office, responsible for ensuring change initiatives are strategically aligned, properly resourced, and sequenced to maximise organisational capacity. The role works closely with functional leaders to enhance portfolio performance, provide clear delivery insight, and support informed executive decision‑making. It oversees cross‑programme coordination, ensuring visibility of interdependencies, risks, and issues to strengthen delivery confidence and drive benefits realisation. The position requires a commercially minded, proactive technology leader with a strong track record managing complex portfolios.
What you'll be doing?
- Set and maintain a strategy‑aligned portfolio roadmap.
- Lead demand intake and value‑based prioritisation.
- Oversee portfolio performance, risks, KPIs, and governance.
- Manage investment planning, budgeting, and funding decisions.
- Ensure benefits are defined, tracked, and realised.
- Advise senior leaders on portfolio health and trade‑offs.
- Coordinate cross‑programme sequencing and interdependencies.
- Champion modern technology and innovation.
- Drive an outcome‑focused, continuously improving culture.
- Partner with executives, finance, PMO, risk, and delivery teams to align priorities and optimise investment.
Essential skills & experience?
- Extensive experience leading portfolio management, prioritisation, investment decisions, and strategic alignment.
- Proven capability in demand shaping, planning, optimisation, and benefits realisation within large transformations.
- Strong financial acumen across business cases, funding allocation, ROI, and value tracking.
- Skilled at advising senior leaders on priorities, risks, and strategic trade‑offs.
- Able to assess complex demand and make clear, value‑led prioritisation decisions.
- Data‑driven, converting analysis into actionable insights for optimisation.
- Highly effective stakeholder influencer and challenger.
- Strong ability to balance demand, capacity, dependencies, and sequencing.
- Experienced in defining, tracking, and realising benefits tied to strategic outcomes.
- Deep understanding of portfolio risks, interdependencies, and constraints with proactive mitigation.
Desirable
- Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline (e.g., IT, Business, Management, Engineering) or equivalent professional experience.
- Relevant professional certifications such as MSP, MoP, PgMP, PMP, MSP
- Experience with Agile delivery frameworks (e.g., SAFe, Scrum at scale).
- Experienced in using project and programme management tools (e.g. MS Project, Azure DevOps) to track delivery, plan resources and manage budgets.
- Experience working within SFIA-aligned organisations or capability frameworks
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car or allowance and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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