Head Of Portfolio - GBP68,000 Lease Car, Leeds - National Role

Head Of Portfolio - GBP68,000 Lease Car & Great Pension, Leeds - National Role

Our client is a major National employer seeking an accomplished and confident leader to become the Head of Portfolio to lead their dynamic team of project and programme managers as they drive a number of change programmes throughout the organisations supply chain.

You should possess the necessary gravitas to engage with internal and exterior stakeholders to board level with a strong track record of change management within a strict governance environment, you should be adept at making things happen and keeping control of a variety of programmes through your meticulous approach.

Key Skills

Programme Management

• Experience of managing GBPmulti-million programmes with a successful track record in financial and benefits management and effective dependency/risk management.

• Experience of delivering a variety of change programmes within operational environments - system redesign, service redesign (including restructuring), consolidation activity etc.

• Successful track record in developing and delivering agreed benefits to operational functions.

• Desirable - Experience of developing a strategic change portfolio that balances funding constraints, business leadership, project delivery capability, risk appetite and organisational capacity to absorb

• Desirable - Demonstrable experience of leading prioritisation exercises and guiding senior teams through key decision-making processes

• A qualified Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner

Stakeholder Engagement

• Strong stakeholder management skills and able to operate effectively at all levels of an organisation, including the Executive Team.

• Experienced at Facilitation and workshop techniques

• Communicate complex, potentially contentious issues to a broad audience

• Provide appropriate challenge, at all levels, to ensure strategic plans are robust, well developed and evidence based

Strategic Planning

• Understanding of Strategy development processes

• Expertise in application of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis techniques to support strategic decision making

• Undertake complex problem solving, and draw conclusions from a complex set of information to inform short term (6 month) and longer term (3-5 year) strategic planning

Team Management

• Significant line management experience, able to motivate, develop and performance manage your teams.

• Experience of managing remote teams - we are a national organisation with teams dispersed across the length and breadth of England

• Cover a wide geographic area, involving long distance travelling and some unsocial hours working

• Act as a visible leader/role model for staff, and to develop relationships and working arrangements which are consistent with the mission and values of the organisation

• Foster and promote partnership working with all staff, unions and managers. To conduct investigations and chair disciplinary, dispute and grievance hearings and appeals.

If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience please send your CV for consideration.