Portfolio Office Manager – Portfolio Management
Job Title: Portfolio Office Manager – Portfolio Management
Salary: The starting salary is £80,260, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.
The salary is broken down as £77,332 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £89,320 Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.
Location: London and Hybrid (60% of your time you will work from a Met location, of which at least one day a week will be at your base location in Sydenham)
Do you have the expertise, vision and leadership qualities we need to shape and drive change and help keep Londoners safe?
This is an exciting time to be working for the Transformation Directorate as we support the Met to adapt and respond to the ever-changing needs of policing our capital city. We are looking for a high quality individual to co-lead the portfolio office, providing the insights and decision-making support to enable senior managers to deliver the portfolio of change effectively and efficiently; and to lead and build the capability of the portfolio office.
Key Responsibilities
- Champion and implement effective portfolio management, supporting the vision to attain a world class transformation function.
- Manage communication and engagement with senior stakeholders, developing and maintaining strategic relationships and working in partnership to resolve problems to benefit operational policing and the MPS.
- Provide overall direction and leadership for the portfolio office to support the delivery of the change portfolio’s outcomes and benefits.
- Build and sustain capacity and capability within the portfolio office.
- Manage portfolio team resources, ensuring they are tasked effectively to deliver portfolio outcomes.
- Help shape and set the processes, standards and reporting requirements for the programmes in the portfolio.
- Deputise for the Head of Portfolio Management where required, with authority to make delegated decisions.
- Help identify and manage portfolio level risks, and ensure portfolio wide identification and management of critical dependencies.
- Describe the purpose and intended outcomes of the portfolio to a wide variety of stakeholders ensuring that key messages are understood.
- Ensure effective oversight of portfolio finances.
- Develop solutions as necessary to ensure portfolio outcomes and key benefits are delivered. This may range from workshops, meetings and the production of key artefacts.
- Work with colleagues in business change, integrated design and delivery, and programmes to ensure operational effectiveness is not impacted and the portfolio outcomes are delivered.
Communications and Working Relationships
The portfolio manager develops and maintains strategic relationships with:
- Senior leaders in the Met, including transformation directorate leadership team and SROs as necessary, to provide meaningful insights, challenge, and assurance to inform strategic decision making.
- Enabling functions related to the portfolio, which may include digital policing, finance, data office and commercial to problem-solve, integrate and collaborate to the benefit of operational policing and the wider MPS.
- Partners to the Met where relevant to the portfolio to influence and understand changes in strategic direction or trends.
- Head of portfolio delivery to support them in building the capability and capacity of the portfolio.
- The portfolio manager works closely day-to-day with their peers operating across programmes where there is a need for integrated and collaborative working, to problem solve to the benefit of operational policing and the wider MPS.
The portfolio manager leads and manages the teams working in the portfolio. This is to:
- Provide quality outputs to time, quality and cost, that enable the portfolio to achieve its outcomes.
- Ensure that all staff develop their expertise and capability.
- Allocate and prioritise portfolio resources to the overall benefit of the portfolio.
- Work with contractors to meet changing resource requirements, ensuring quality of output and value for money.
How to apply
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement, and online application form. Your personal statement should evidence how your skills and experience match the skills make you suitable for the role. (This must be a maximum of 2 sides of A4 page only). Your CV should be concise, setting out your career history, key responsibilities and achievements relevant to the role. Please ensure you provide reasons for any gaps within the last two years (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on the 3rd of April 2025.
Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. The application review for this vacancy will commence 7-10 days after the vacancy has closed.
Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. Interview dates are to be confirmed.