Portfolio Manager - Transformation

This is a permanent, full-time, daytime role working Monday to Friday and offers a salary between £70,000.00 - £75,000.00 per annum, plus a car allowance. It follows a hybrid working model, with three days in the office and two days working from home each week.

Responsible for establishing and driving a robust portfolio management framework across the UK business, ensuring effective governance, prioritisation, resource planning, and delivery oversight for operational, automation, continuous improvement, and transformation initiatives.

• Maintain a single view of all UK projects, including warehousing, automation, client onboarding, continuous improvement, and transformation initiatives
• Drive portfolio prioritisation, balancing strategic goals, operational priorities, customer commitments, and resource capacity
• Manage portfolio risks, dependencies, and delivery conflicts
• Lead portfolio governance, reporting, and insights to support effective decision-making and strategic planning

• Establish a consistent process for capturing, assessing, and prioritising new opportunities, projects, and change requests
• Create visibility of the UK project pipeline, ensuring demand aligns with business priorities, investment plans, and delivery capacity
• Partner with stakeholders to shape opportunities into well‑defined initiatives with clear scope, outcomes, requirements, and ownership
• Support the development of business cases and investment decisions, ensuring initiatives are ready to enter delivery
• Facilitate the transition from portfolio planning into project delivery, working closely with Project Managers and key stakeholders
• Work with leaders and project teams to understand resource demand, identify capacity constraints, and support effective portfolio planning
• Partner with Finance to build and strengthen financial PMO capability across the UK portfolio
• Support consistent financial governance, budgeting, forecasting, and portfolio reporting
• Establish scalable portfolio standards, reporting frameworks, and data‑driven ways of working
• Lead the selection, implementation, and optimisation of portfolio management tools
• Establish portfolio management standards, processes, and reporting frameworks that support future business growth
• Drive adoption of portfolio management disciplines and best practices across the organisation
• Champion the UK Project Management, Continuous Improvement, Change, and Transformation community across sites and functions
• Foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, consistency, and continuous improvement
• Support the development of project, change, and transformation capability, creating a scalable foundation for growth and delivery excellence

Analyses complex operational processes end‑to‑end, identifies root causes of inefficiencies, and develops pragmatic, value‑driven solutions that balance standardisation with operational realities.

Takes responsibility for defining and progressing transformation initiatives from concept to implementation, ensuring clarity of deliverables, quality of outcomes, and alignment with agreed objectives.

Works effectively across functions and geographies to align stakeholders, build consensus, and ensure smooth execution of initiatives that require coordination between operations, technology and support functions.

• 7+ years’ experience in Portfolio Management, PMO, Programme Management, Transformation, or Change Management roles
• Proven experience establishing, developing, or improving portfolio management and PMO capabilities
• Strong background within a 3PL, logistics, warehousing, supply chain, or operational environment
• Experience managing complex portfolios covering warehousing operations, automation projects, client onboarding, continuous improvement, and business transformation initiatives
• Knowledge of warehouse automation technologies, including WMS, robotics, ASRS, sortation, and conveyor systems
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, prioritisation, demand management, resource planning, and financial management
• Experience developing business cases,…