Digital Portfolio Manager

About the Opportunity

Industry: Professional Services

Location: Hybrid - London (2/3 days per week)

Permanent - Full Time

Responsibilities

• Act as the central driver for coordination and alignment across four divisional Directors.
• Chair discussions, broker agreements, and introduce frameworks and processes to aid decision-making.
• Manage prioritisation, resource allocation, and stakeholder communications.
• Oversee delivery of digital initiatives, taking a hands-on programme management role when required.
• Develop and implementation of governance frameworks.
• Liaise with Procurement, People & Culture, HR, Legal, and IT to bring in tools and new ways of working.
• Work closely with Agile delivery teams (scrum, sprints) – no need to be a deep technical SME, but must understand the intent and impact of initiatives.
• Operate at both strategic portfolio level and tactical delivery level.

About You

Candidate Profile

• Strong Portfolio oversight experience – not solely large-scale enterprise change delivery
• Track record in technology-led transformation, ideally in professional services
• Experience building functions or teams from the ground up and establishing governance capabilities and ways of working
• Skilled in managing strong personalities and aligning differing priorities
• Comfortable working in what can be described as a start-up-style environment within a structured global organisation
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Good working knowledge of Agile (plus some Waterfall exposure)
• Pragmatic, collaborative, and able to challenge constructively
• Ability to gain a granular understanding of initiatives, and get embedded within the detail but with a strategic lens

Summary

This role is ideal for a collaborative, decisive, and solutions-focused portfolio manager who thrives on creating order from complexity, driving alignment, and enabling successful delivery in a fast-moving digital transformation environment.