Portfolio Manager

About the Opportunity

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Responsibilities

• Product Roadmap – Driving product roadmap implementation to ensure alignment with strategic objectives and the organisation’s priorities.
• CDIO Front Door – Ensuring work entering CDIO is of sufficient quality, strategically aligned and the delivery method is defined prior to entry onto a Product backlog.
• Prioritisation – Management of prioritisation and scheduling escalations and decisions leveraging the wider organisation where required.
• CDIO Governance – Alignment of Quarterly Planning, Delivery Status and exceptions reporting to a Senior audience.
• Delivery Assurance – Cross Portfolio planning, dependency, risk and issue management.

About You

The environment is demanding, and the post holder will need to be able to demonstrate experience of managing a diverse change portfolio, that will coordinate the right capabilities, skills, and culture to support the transition to a service portfolio, as well as strong stakeholder management skills.

This is a Leadership role, and the post holder will be expected to have a proven experience within a leadership environment. You will lead a team of portfolio analysts and support other roles within the portfolio practice.

Eligibility

• A proven experience in a leadership environment.
• Proven experience of management across a diverse portfolio.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relationships.
• Proven experience balancing multiple priorities and dealing with ambiguity, including influencing colleagues and senior stakeholders.
• Previous experience of leading and developing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Relevant Qualification in Portfolio Management, e.g. Management of Portfolios (MoP) or extensive relevant experience in Portfolio Management.

Benefits

• Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
• HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments.
• We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

About Company

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

How To Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

A name-blind CV including your job history.

A 750-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the essential criteria and person specification outlined in the advert.

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

At sift your CV, and your Personal Statement, will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.

We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.

Contact Point for Applicants

Job Contact
Name: Rosie Lyons
Email: rosie.lyons@hmrc.gov.uk

Recruitment team
Email: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk