Portfolio Office Manager

Business Unit: Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management, COO
Salary Range: £56,000 - £70,000 per annum depending on experience 
Location: UK Hybrid – with travel to a local hub once per quarter - Glasgow, Gosforth, Leeds or London

Live to inspire change. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team
You'll play a pivotal role in maintaining oversight of the investment funded change plan, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, and driving compliance across all projects and initiative activities. Collaborating with key stakeholders, you'll monitor progress, manage risks, and support governance processes to ensure successful delivery of initiatives. By providing structure, guidance, and reporting, you'll enable informed decision-making and ensure adherence to established standards and timelines.

What you’ll be doing
• Maintaining oversight of portfolio progress through facilitation of regular governance meetings with key stakeholders, including CIOs, Programme Directors, Finance and Risk.
• Working with Strategy and Finance to ensure that the impact of the investment plan is clearly articulated and monitored, ensuring a strong link between the investment plan and business financial plans.
• Ensuring the correct positioning of the plan within the wider Bank by providing a fully integrated single point of knowledge of activity.
• Working with change teams to co-ordinate business case production ensuring appropriate specialist input and timing of approval through governance framework, providing best practice advice and guidance
• Identifying and monitoring portfolio risks, threats, and opportunities; planning and implementing responses to them and responding to other issues impacting the portfolio.
• Maintaining portfolio delivery map and critical path to monitor project progress. Recognise and track interdependencies across change initiatives.
• Create, own, and manage a complete dependency map across the change portfolio, ensuring quick escalation of issues.

We need you to have
• Solid change experience with excellent leadership skills
• A track record of providing challenge to deliver improved results
• Demonstrable experience and knowledge of managing change through a cultural programme
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills gained in a project environment
• Has a keen understanding of the key business drivers which influence the performance of a financial institution
• Strong strategic communications experience & knowledge

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential
• Good background in data and analytics, preferably in Change
• Proven ability to manage and maintain risk governance and methodologies
• Good knowledge of project tooling and Microsoft tools

Red Hot Rewards
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with, and we're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer-obsessed and work tirelessly to deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ This means we're able to do banking differently, and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference by creating memorable moments and red-hot experiences for our millions of customers. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

It’s important to note that there may be occasions where it’s not possible to interview all candidates declaring a disability who meet the essential criteria for the job. In certain recruitment situations such as receiving a high-volume of applications, we may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.