Portfolio Manager x2

Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of 20% in the Oxford office per month

We have two vacancies available for Portfolio Managers.

We're Nominet - a world-leading domain name registry operating at the heart of the UK internet. While we're best known for running .UK domains, our DNS expertise also underpins critical internet infrastructure that government services, including the NHS, rely on.
As a public benefit company, our work has a positive impact on society. We've donated millions to projects that use technology to improve people's lives and have committed to delivering £60m worth of support over the next three years.

Nominet has an ongoing stream of transformation change across its customer-facing products, supporting technology platforms and back-office operations. Nominet is seeking an experienced Portfolio Manager to manage a portfolio of change aligned to specific parts of the business.

This role will have three major focus areas:

• Shape roadmaps and future demand into a prioritised pipeline of work with well-understood capacity, funding, and outcomes to set delivery up for success
• Convert and deliver change via the appropriate delivery mechanisms, managing cadence and progress through the delivery lifecycle
• Manage a team of delivery resources appropriate to the size and scale of the portfolio across a range of initiative sizes and delivery vehicles

• Develop and manage integrated roadmaps across multiple work streams & operational teams
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale programmes, with likely a significant technology component
• Establish and maintain delivery governance, plans, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensure initiatives & overall portfolio are delivered in line with agreed scope, timelines, budget, and benefits.
• Ensure that deliverables (technical & business) meet the business needs
• Ensure that portfolio outcomes are aligned to strategy, business cases are valid and sufficient to track benefits realisation during and after initiative delivery
• Support annual planning & budgeting and ensure that portfolio is robust, healthy and set up for success now and into the future

• Support Executives/Sponsors in articulating the objectives, benefits and outcomes of the initiatives within the portfolio and that the programme & change management are aligned to deliver and sustain the benefits realisation
• Support Executives/Sponsors in their roles and ensure that demand and delivery decision-making is effective
• Ensure that communications and reporting are in place to support business objectives across stakeholders, change and progress.
• Ensure agreed actions are completed, risk identified and mitigated, issues resolved and decisions agreed in a timely way
• Identify & track resource requirements and resolve availability conflicts

• Work with colleagues, stakeholders and functional teams to devise plans, identify inbound and outbound dependencies and determine the critical path
• Operate across both Demand and Delivery life cycles to allow smooth transition from Demand to Delivery and that delivery is set up for success

• Ensure the team has the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles to ensure effective delivery of key priorities for the team
• Proactively enable and empower our teams to deliver at their best through timely coaching and feedback
• Role model a performance-driven culture and process, in line with required timelines and processes

• Where programme outcomes require Stakeholders to adopt change, apply change management practices to support outcomes and sustain change post-delivery
• Act as point of escalation for appropriate suppliers or partners who are key to one or more…