Portfolio Manager

About The Role

Balfour Beatty is looking for a Portfolio Manager to join our growing team. This role can be based from either Glasgow or Newcastle. This role is pivotal in ensuring the successful delivery and management of the IT project portfolio across Balfour Beatty. This role involves overseeing the implementation of IT projects in alignment with strategic business objectives, optimizing project delivery, and ensuring effective resource utilization and building strong relationships with senior stakeholders to drive engagement, informed decision-making, and organizational support for portfolio outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategic planning and execution of multiple IT projects across the organization, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Manage the IT project portfolio budget, optimizing expenditure and resource allocation.
• Oversee the performance of project management teams, ensuring high standards of delivery and compliance.
• Facilitate effective stakeholder management strategies to enhance communication and project buy-in at all levels.
• Implement risk management processes to identify, assess, and mitigate risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Make decisions on project priorities and resource allocations, providing leadership and direction.
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement by introducing innovations and efficiencies in project management practices.
• Ensure adherence to legal, regulatory, and company standards across all IT projects.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with external partners and suppliers to support project objectives.
• Champion the adoption of project management best practices and tools within the organization.
• Lead portfolio governance processes, prioritization, and approvals.
• Monitor and report portfolio performance, benefits realization, risks, dependencies, and strategic outcomes.
• Balance portfolio demand against available funding, resources, and organizational capacity.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to senior leaders regarding portfolio investment and delivery decisions.

About You

Strong leadership capabilities are essential for managing and directing teams. Technical knowledge of IT infrastructure, software development life cycles, and current industry trends. Excellent skills in communication, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking. Adaptability to manage diverse teams and projects in a dynamic environment. Experience of portfolio management or managing multiple concurrent projects and programs, with the ability to align delivery activity to business priorities. Strong governance, risk, and dependency management capabilities, with the ability to operate effectively across complex delivery environments. Demonstrable ability to build credibility, influence stakeholders, and support informed decision-making at all levels of the organization. Experience establishing, applying, or improving project, program, or portfolio management frameworks, controls, reporting, and assurance practice.

Benefits

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About Company

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardizing our approach, systems, and processes.