Strategic Portfolio Director

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Royal Mail Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled individual to lead our transformation programme as a Commercial Portfolio Director. This is a pivotal role in our ongoing transformation, and we are looking for someone who can drive our transformation efforts in operations, commercial, and ways of working across our 140,000 strong workforce nationwide.

Key Responsibilities

  • Report directly to the Executive Board (EB) sponsor and maintain a strong dotted line to the Chief Information Officer (CIO)
  • Provide overall assurance and visibility of the programmes and projects within the Transformation portfolio to ensure successful delivery
  • Manage a portfolio consisting of multiple complex, multi-threaded, multi-site, high-value projects, all contributing to the 5-year strategy
  • Ensure governance policies and processes are in place to provide a timely and accurate view of portfolio health, supporting data-driven decision-making
  • Challenge and provide interventions to programme leads as needed to ensure milestones, deliverables, and benefits align with the 3-year strategic plan
  • Lead efforts to ensure alignment on portfolio-wide dependencies, risks, and issues through robust prioritisation, ongoing monitoring, and escalation to the EB sponsor and EB when necessary
  • Track deviations from the plan, promptly identify, and agree on mitigation strategies
  • Escalate key decision points to the EB sponsor and EB to align on required actions, celebrating and recognising successes and achievements
  • Manage and engage senior stakeholders, ensuring visibility and confidence in the progress and vision of the Transformation portfolio through weekly status updates
  • Develop strong senior executive relationships with the EB sponsor, CIO, and other EB members to achieve portfolio objectives
  • Operate within a matrix environment to shape the programme and project management teams within the portfolio, ensuring alignment with the strategic plan
  • Lead, coach, and mentor team members to aid their development and increase capability and effectiveness
  • Ensure portfolio resource requirements and capabilities are prioritised and sufficient to meet project deliverables

About You

To truly excel in this role, you'll possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:

  • Portfolio Management Expertise: Highly experienced in portfolio delivery, assurance, governance, and methodology, ideally within the postal industry or a similar sector
  • Leadership in Matrix Environments: Proven track record of leading teams in a matrix environment to achieve engagement outcomes while maintaining a culture of operational excellence
  • Results-Oriented: Demonstrated ability to drive benefits delivery at a portfolio level while meeting cost targets, with experience in reporting to an executive board
  • Influencing and Communication Skills: Strong ability to influence senior-level stakeholders, formally and informally communicating, challenging, and driving decisions with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
  • Strategic Prioritisation and Governance: Experience leading strategic prioritisation exercises and workshops and chairing governance and progress meetings at a portfolio level
  • Long-Term Development: Proven history of contributing to the long-term development and improvement of organisations, including the effective development of team members

What We Offer

We offer a competitive salary, plus £6,300 car allowance, healthcare, 35% annual bonus potential, 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates. This is a permanent, full-time role based in Royal Mail Farringdon.

How to Apply

If you feel this role would be for you, and you have the energy, skills, and leadership to help accelerate our transformation efforts, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application, and we'll be in touch to discuss the next stage of the selection process.

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