Senior Portfolio Manager
- Full-time
- Shape investment and priorities: Provide evidence and scenarios that help leaders balance strategic objectives, value, risk and resources.
- Improve portfolio performance: Challenge expected and realised benefits, identify duplication and recommend corrective action where outcomes are at risk.
- Make plans achievable: Assess demand, resources and the organisation's capacity to absorb change, informing annual and longer-term plans.
- Resolve competing priorities: Bring leaders and delivery teams together to address dependencies and constraints before they undermine outcomes.
- Enable timely decisions: Maintain effective portfolio reporting and governance, providing forward-looking insight and proportionate assurance while raising significant risks and investment concerns early.
- Strengthen portfolio capability: Improve ways of working and support practitioners through coaching, knowledge sharing and lessons from delivery.
Shape decisions. Turn priorities into achievable outcomes.
Choosing what to invest in is only part of the challenge. NPL also needs to understand what it can deliver, where priorities compete and whether investment is producing the intended benefits.
As Senior Portfolio Manager, you'll manage a portfolio of initiatives, helping NPL make informed choices about priorities, investment and delivery capacity. Your initial focus will be a portfolio of digital and data initiatives supporting NPL's operational and strategic objectives. The role may support other areas of NPL as organisational priorities change.
You'll bring together a clear picture of the portfolio, helping sponsors and delivery teams understand progress, dependencies, resource pressures and expected benefits. Looking beyond individual projects, you'll identify pressures early and recommend what should start, stop, be deferred or move forward sooner.
Working with sponsors, delivery leads and operational colleagues, you'll bring independent challenge and help resolve competing priorities. You'll also strengthen portfolio practice through coaching, shared learning and practical improvements. Sponsors and business owners remain accountable for realising benefits; your role is to test the evidence and keep decisions focused on value.
Key Responsibilities