Portfolio Manager

About the Opportunity

Job Title: Portfolio Manager (PMO)

Division: Beazley Shared Services

Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart

Key Relationships: Head of PMO, Project Managers & Delivery Leads, Group Head of Change, Head of Business Change, Business Stakeholders, Finance.

Job Summary

As the Portfolio Manager (PMO) within our Group-wide Portfolio Management Office (PMO), you will be instrumental in shaping and optimising our holistic change portfolio. In this role, you’ll establish and embed robust portfolio management processes, creating an environment that fosters successful portfolio delivery across the enterprise and showcasing delivery excellence.

You will oversee delivery across the portfolio and provide transparent reporting. Your insights and data-driven analysis will be essential in supporting the prioritisation and informed decision making, promoting effective management and control throughout the portfolio. Additionally, you will ensure business-wide transparent reporting, providing stakeholders with clear visibility into portfolio progress and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Support, coach, and educate stakeholders and delivery teams on the consistent application of business case frameworks, processes, procedures, and tools
• Support program, project, and portfolio management services across assigned portfolios, including monitoring plans, managing financials, addressing risks and issues, overseeing dependencies (including resource demands), processing change requests, and tracking benefits
• Conduct high-level checks by gathering, validating, and critically reviewing updates from Project Managers and Delivery Leads to ensure clear communication and address any data gaps.
• Apply a lessons-learned approach to capture and share insights that enhance project delivery and contribute to the continuous improvement of the Change Governance Model and related frameworks (e.g., VRF, CMF)
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage risks to minimise impacts on delivery and maximise project benefits

About You

Personal Specification

Essential Criteria:

• Change delivery methods (MSP, Prince2, SDLC, Scrum, SAFe)
• Programme, Project and Portfolio (P3M) and PMO theories and practice, including maturity models
• Portfolio prioritisation, project pipelines/backlog processes

Knowledge & Experience:

• PMO experience, preferably in Financial Services/Insurance
• Experience facilitating Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)
• Applications and tools (Office systems, MS Teams, PPM Tools (ideally Planview Adaptive Work), JIRA, Confluence)
• Portfolio prioritisation, project pipelines/backlog processes
• Business operating models, metrics (OKRs, KPIs, etc.)

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health and wellness benefits
• Professional development opportunities

About Company

It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to Beazley’s core values - Being Bold, Striving For Better, and Doing The Right Thing – as they contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.

We also expect Beazley employees to:

• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct
• Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures
• Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers
• Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome