Portfolio Lead - Sheffield

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Portfolio Strategy and Planning Lead to work for our client within the financial services sector. This is initially a 5-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in Sheffield.

As a Portfolio Strategy and Planning Lead you will enable decentralised delivery, minimising dependencies, and maximising collaboration across the client’s Chief Technology Office (CTO) areas. The client is looking for someone who can manage demand more effectively, ensuring they are working towards the right strategic priorities and who can support alignment of funding and capacity to drive delivery of strategic outcomes.

The role will report to the Head of CTO Change Portfolio Management and work closely with the CTO Transformation and Change Leads and wider teams/stakeholders to deliver common objectives.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the overall delivery of strategic portfolio outcomes supporting business vision and purpose through complex and global change portfolios
• Owns CTO portfolio strategy and ensures organisational strategic requirements and priorities are understood, documented, and are supported by technology architecture roadmaps and vendor strategy
• Ownership and delivery of strategic planning cycles across change portfolios to ensure financial investment decisions supports CTO long term strategy, risk appetite and aligns to the client's strategy and future business / customer needs
• Development of business cases and benefit validation to support transformation, strategic initiatives and to support fast paced business responses to emerging threats and opportunities
• Develop and drive regular engagement with senior stakeholders at C-suite and director level, to influence and deliver CTO vision and strategy 
• Support the management of risks across CTO by ensuring portfolio risks, issues and dependencies are managed effectively and senior stakeholders are informed / updated where appropriate
• Supporting management of portfolio budgets to help CTO meet its annual operating plan of approx. $2bn P&L across 65 countries, including identification and delivery of savings opportunities across portfolios as required
• Ensuring that CTO can meet committed outcomes by working with engineering teams to align supply to meet forecasted demand pipelines

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience strategic portfolio management or relevant experience, ideally within Financial Services technology functions and working with C-level executives
• Proven experience of large-scale transformation
• Knowledge of portfolio management principles and practices
• Excellent communication/presentation skills required
• Proactive problem-solving skills, able to work to under pressure to challenging timescales and deliver at pace
• Strong stakeholder management capability and excellent communication at all levels of seniority
• Detailed understanding of the financial & strategy planning
• Excellent commercial awareness and proven ability to develop multi-year business cases worth over $100m
• Sound knowledge and understanding of the infrastructure technology landscape and industry 
• Flexible and adaptable to changing activities, schedules, workloads, and priorities that are potentially highly restricted in nature, unpredictable, wide ranging, complex and time sensitive requires the simultaneous handling of a broad range of issues
• Proven leadership & strong teamwork skills, seeking to influence within and outside of the team and successfully encourage teams to work together
• Experience of continuous improvement

Why join us

• Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave, work-place pension and BAYE share scheme

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion
FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.