Senior Portfolio Manager
1-2 days London office each week
3-6 months initially
£500-600 per day Outside IR35

My client, a consultancy is looking for a Senior Portfolio Manager to join their fast-paced team on an initial 3-6 month contract.

The ideal candidate will have Portfolio Level experience delivering large CRM based projects such as SAP, Oracle and Salesforce.

You will be accountable for the collating, reporting, communicating and checkpointing the enterprise technology (etech) portfolio of projects with the etech leadership team.

Collating portfolio summaries from project/delivery manager and driving standardized projects ways of working, reporting and communicating, drives alignment on project status and effective RAI/decision management through data and tools ensuring timely escalation management of actions. Work with the project/delivery manager, practise leads and teams broader technology and business stakeholders.

Experience:
* Proven experience of working with multiple project managers through delivery life cycle (eg shaping, delivery, implementation and stage gates)
* Strong experience of working in an equivalent complex environment with multiple systems, projects and teams
* Has been responsible for collating and issuing summaries and communications to a broad set of stakeholders, technical and business, across a portfolio of projects
* Has a deep knowledge of a range of PMO processes, tools and techniques.
* Demonstrable experience of introducing, document, improving processes and tools. Experience across waterfall and Agile delivery.
* Has working directly with Project managers, Scrum masters, Product owners to agree project management type deliverables and added value to their projects delivery
* Strong and clear communication skills that engages senior stakeholders.

Portfolio governance and forums
* Assist in running governance forums across Etech capturing and chasing actions.
* Group across etech practice/projects. Reviewing summary of project status, Scope, Key design decisions, plan, RAIDS, Resourcing, project Finance and agree actions
* Maintaining linked action tracker for Etech level actions

Divisional
* Assist in running governance forums with Divisions where review projects for those Divisions and capturing actions.
* Sessions grouped Reviewing summary of project status, Scope, Key design decisions, plan, RAIDS, Resourcing, project Finance, and agreeing actions
* Maintaining a linked action tracker for Divisional level actions

TSS
* Assist in forums with TSS Service operations team. capturing actions. Reviewing summary of project/portfolio release plans agree actions relating to service design and transition
* Assist in forums with TSS technology change team for new demand. Capturing etech actions and next steps.
* Maintaining a linked action tracker for TSS level actions

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.