Portfolio Planning Lead

Location: Newbury + Hybrid
Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday
Hybrid: 2-3 days in office per week, minimum 8 days per month.

• Accountable for the IT delivery plan across a c £40m portfolio
• Acts as the key interface for the portfolio plan and will work closely with other portfolios and engineering teams to gain commitment to the plan for capacity and scheduling
• Acts as the key interlock with the Business Planning function, ensuring timely mobilization of the annual plan of Business project demand
• Work with Portfolio Managers and Business Planning to ensure full line of sight is in place for funding across the whole portfolio of demand
• Accountable for tracking project and programme dependencies across all other IT portfolios
• Drive effective change management within the portfolio to ensure the plan is always relevant, up to date and agile to changing portfolio requirements
• Work closely with Product/Portfolio owners at L2 level, and engineering leads to report on and plan effectively the delivery of their portfolios
• Compiling & owning the IT roadmap for the portfolio, bringing together plans across multiple project streams into one overall perspective and connect the business vision to IT capabilities
• Governing portfolios in line with Digital’s SAFe ways of working and Technology’s VPDL framework and ensuring delivery in line with agreed tolerances
• Responsible for ensuring the appropriate engineering capacity is booked in order to meet the plan

• Have experience driving successful & large IT projects
• A proven track record working in technical delivery teams with an in-depth understanding of the technologies, processes and techniques required for delivering high quality solutions within a fast moving organisation
• An understanding of the software development lifecycle including various delivery methodologies with the ability to motivate high performing teams
• Experience in liaising with senior‑level stakeholders and delivering successful change initiatives
• Ideally experience delivering in both Waterfall and Scaled Agile environments
• A strong all‑rounder, who will go deep into the detail of delivery plans to ensure delivery success
• Ability to inspire a virtual team of people to achieve the portfolio plan, creating the right environment for them to thrive

We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. You can personalise our benefits for you and your family, like discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and more. We help with your career through our amazing learning tools and top‑notch parental leave policies.

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