Portfolio Manager

Title: Portfolio Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: West Ham Lane, Stratford or Sale Point, Manchester

Persona: Agile, Office based 20-40% 
Salary: Inside London starting from £59,240 pa dependant on experience and location 

Outside London/Regional starting from £51,791 pa dependant on experience and location

Closing date for all applications: 1st May 2024

Interviews will be held on: 7th - 10th May 2024

**Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

We are looking for a senior-level, experienced, and capable colleague to work within L&Q’s Corporate Portfolio Management Office, part of L&Q’s Governance and Transformation Executive Directorate. They will join an agile, high-performing, and values-driven team at the heart of L&Q's programme of change, helping to turn L&Q’s five-year Corporate Strategy, Future Shape,into a reality.

Our Corporate Strategy highlighted our priorities and how these will be underpinned through ‘operational excellence’. For L&Q, this means delivering the best total cost solution for our customers through reliable, consistent, and repeatable products and services. We want our customers to know what to expect of us and know that we will deliver on thistime and time again.

The successful candidate will be naturally analytical and highly capable of analysing complex programmes and projects, identifying plans, risks, and issues, and translating this information into information that colleagues across the Group can understand. They should also be experienced in influencing at a senior level, extremely competent at communication and engagement, and able to develop colleagues and teams to their full potential.

They will be responsible for:

Support portfolio management activity across the Grouprelated to our Transformation Programme, Change Projects, and Business Plans. Support and influence activity across the Group that clearly demonstrates how L&Q’s five-year Future Shape Corporate Strategy will be delivered.

Lead in portfolio reporting, feeding into L&Q’s officer-led governance groups to provide regular and insightful updates, highlighting associated delivery risks and how these are being controlled.

Embedding project and programme frameworks to deliver consistent and repeatable programme and project management, including benefits and other portfolio reporting.

Lead on gap analysis across the Transformation and Change portfolio supporting the corporate strategy.

Leads and facilitates the project lifecycle process to assess and make decisions on new change proposals through the governance framework, ensuring alignment with the corporate strategy.

For approved change and transformation initiatives, facilitating the mobilisation of the delivery, leading the work to ensure accurate translation of objectivesinto planned deliverables and outcomes.

We seek an established and experienced senior individual able to use their skills to bring stakeholders and teams together to define and then deliver brilliant outcomes for colleagues and residents alike.

As such, the key skills and experience required include, but are not limited to;

Leadership

Leader of both direct and indirect reports, and adept at enabling them to be the best they can be, in support of successful outcomes for them and L&Q, with experience of delivering through others

Portfolio Management and Assurance

Experience in portfolio, programme and project management frameworks and methods and their application in a large and complex setting.

Risk, Issue and Change Management

Confident and capable of identifying risks and issues and implementing mitigation to manage them, and to do so collaboratively, influence, and escalate to resolution. Experience in assessing change, ensuring the full scope and impact are fully understood and quantified to enable effective decision-making.

Communication and Influencing

Highly adept at communication through all media, at all levels, internally and externally. Strong influencing skills and ability to operate successfully in a large, complex business setting, with a focus on driving operational excellence and simplifyingoutcomes.

Digital Tools

Confident in using digital tools, including Microsoft 365 and project software, to support the delivery of this role and extend their use to bring innovation to deliver better outcomes.

L&Q is a large, fast paced, and passionate organisation with a strong mission to combine its social purpose and commercial drive, to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.

If you are interested in this role and have the experience required, then why not apply today 

*We are a multi-site organisation, so some roles may require occasional travel between offices, but expenses will be covered. 

Our commitments:

At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. This is why we are committed to developing our people. It's only by investing in a well-trained and motivated workforce that we can continue to prosper and sustain business success.

In addition to our support and training, the successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits including 26 days holiday rising to 31 days with length of service, annual bonus subject to group performance, excellent Pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and non-contributory life assurance.

We are committed to supporting your work-life balance and recognise the changing demands and circumstances in life. Please let us know during the recruitment process if you are interested in part time working or job sharing. In addition, should your circumstances change once you have joined L&Q, you can also request flexible working arrangements, a change to working hours - if it is feasible then we will make it happen.

We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.

We expect all our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.

L&Q is a regulated charitable housing association and one of the UK’s most successful independent social businesses. The L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 97,000 homes, primarily across London and the Southeast.

As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity, and confidence in our communities through our £250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy. 

In response to the housing and affordability crisis, we will build 100,000 new homes over ten years. Of these, 60,000 homes will be built or funded by L&Q, whilst a further 40,000 will come through partnerships. Crucially, at least 50% of these new homes will be genuinely affordable, with a target of 60% in London.

Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.