Portfolio Planner

**Portfolio Planner - **Inside IR35**

**Contract Term: 6 Months - with possible extension.**

**Contracting Authority: Ministry of Defence**

**Location: Hybrid - Remote & occasional travel to Lichfield as required.**

The DMS Transformation Portfolio is a unique and ambitious strategic priority, focusing on modernising and optimising Defence primary healthcare services and maximising our ‘Operational’ capabilities, ultimately in support of Defence strategic objectives, national security and global influence. This transformation is seeking to deliver against 4 key objectives: Improving Patient Outcomes, Increasing Deployability, improving the lived experience of our people and delivering increased Value for Money.

The DMS Transformation Portfolio currently has a number of live, large-scale programmes, managed by the central Transformation Portfolio Office (TxO), established to cohere all transformation activity into a single portfolio of change, owning the strategy for transformation and supporting the programmes and projects in their delivery.

**As a **Portfolio Planner y**our main responsibilities will include**:

- Developing & maintaining a resourced and costed Portfolio Plan - inc. a forecast / overview of expected Outputs, Outcomes & Benefits from across the portfolio.
- Maintaining a single, dynamic schedule - inc. milestones for all programmes/projects - identifying & monitoring dependencies & the critical patch - understanding how delays to deliverables will affect other programmes & portfolio ambitions.
- Maintaining a resource plan & budget (tracking forecast vs actual) for the portfolio.
- Analysing, assuring & improving project and programme plans across the portfolio - leading through development / continuous improvement of plans (phases, resources & deliverables).
- Providing regular progress reports to the Transformation Director & Portfolio Office Manager.
- Developing & maintaining a comprehensive Portfolio Control Process - to be overseen by the DMS Tx Portfolio Board - inc. a Portfolio Library / Portfolio Backlog / Portfolio Change, Acceptance & Configuration Control system and a Gateway Management function that enables the analysis & progression of projects/programmes between the project lifecycles.

**You’ll have relevant experience in**:

- Demonstrable Portfolio Planning experience - delivering successful projects & programmes with tangible business benefits & outcomes.
- Ability to develop strong partnerships - working flexibly & collaboratively across teams & with senior stakeholders to meet delivery challenges.
- Effective planning, governance & management of projects / programmes - inc. senior stakeholder reporting.
- Ability to tie deliverables to strategy - monitor progress, risks & issues (not just schedule related) & assist the Board to make effective decisions relating to Portfolio delivery.
- A relevant project management qualification - desirable.- Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas._