Transformation Portfolio Manager

Shape the future of transformation at Affinity Water!

We’re looking for a Transformation Portfolio Manager to join our Transformation function on a 12 month FTC to play a key role in shaping, prioritising and delivering our portfolio of business and technology change.

This is a strategic role where you’ll bring together people, investment, priorities and delivery, ensuring our resources are focused on the initiatives that will deliver the greatest value for the organisation. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, provide clear portfolio insight and effective governance and help to manage risks, dependencies, capacity and delivery challenges. You’ll also lead and develop our project delivery capability, supporting Project Managers and Business Analysts to deliver successful outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

Portfolio Governance & Prioritisation

• Lead the intake, assessment and prioritisation of projects and programmes, ensuring they align with organisational strategy and priorities.

• Maintain portfolio roadmaps, oversee dependencies and monitor portfolio performance.

• Provide clear portfolio reporting and insight to senior leaders and governance forums.

• Support investment decisions and business case development, ensuring proposed initiatives are appropriately assessed and governed.

Demand & Capacity Management

• Lead portfolio demand and capacity planning, ensuring resource requirements, constraints, skills and sequencing are understood and managed.

• Coordinate the allocation and sequencing of work across Project Managers and Business Analysts.

• Identify resource constraints and work with stakeholders to develop effective solutions.

• Ensure resource assumptions, dependencies and capacity impacts are visible within portfolio governance and reporting.

Programme Governance & Delivery Assurance

• Provide governance and delivery assurance across strategic projects and programmes.

• Act as an escalation point for significant risks, issues and dependencies.

• Work closely with Project Managers to resolve delivery challenges and maintain momentum.

• Ensure projects operate in line with agreed governance standards and delivery frameworks.

Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Project Managers, creating a collaborative, accountable and high-performing delivery culture.

• Support career development, succession planning and capability growth.

• Champion accountability, ownership and professional excellence across the project community.

• Support recruitment and team growth where required.

Continuous Improvement

• Champion best practice across project, programme and portfolio management.

• Drive continuous improvement across the Transformation Centre of Excellence.

• Promote consistent governance, reporting standards and delivery methodologies.

• Facilitate lessons learned, knowledge sharing and capability development.

• Support the continued maturity of portfolio and project management practices across the organisation.

What you’ll bring:

You’ll be an experienced transformation, portfolio or programme professional with a strong track record of managing complex change initiatives and working across a matrix environment.

You’ll have:

• Significant experience managing portfolios, programmes or major change initiatives.

• Strong experience in portfolio governance, prioritisation and delivery assurance.

• Experience of resource and capacity planning across multiple projects and teams.

• Experience supporting investment decisions and business case development.

• Proven experience leading, coaching and developing project delivery teams.

• Strong executive stakeholder management and influencing skills.

• Excellent analytical, reporting and decision-making skills.

• Strong experience managing risks, issues and dependencies across a complex portfolio.

• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills.

Desirable

• A qualification such as MoP, MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, APM PMQ or equivalent.

• Experience within Technology, Digital or Business Transformation environments.

• Experience implementing portfolio governance frameworks and delivery standards.

Experience leading organisational change and transformation initiatives.

Benefits:

• Salary from £80,000 dependant on skills and experience

• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.

• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.

• Annual leave from 23-27 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.

• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.

• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)

• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.

• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.

• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.

• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets through our Tap4Perks scheme

• Discounts on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme through salary sacrifice

• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.

• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.