Portfolio Manager (Core)

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Company Description

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what's wholly British, the pub experience.

Job Description

Support our business by delivering technology-based solutions to business challenges and opportunities by leading a focused team of project managers and business analysts. Responsible for overseeing and managing a portfolio of IT projects, ensuring that projects align with the company's strategic objectives, are appropriate prioritised and scheduled and delivered on time, within budget, and provide value to the business

Qualifications

Your role as Portfolio Manager

• Manage, prioritise and schedule a portfolio of projects based on their alignment
  with business goals and strategies
  • Manage portfolio level dependencies, risks and issues across projects to ensure
  the portfolio is delivered within budget and on schedule
  • To lead project management and business analysis best practice across the team
  to deliver successful projects
  • Management of a team of internal Project Managers and Business Analysts and
  external Project Managers and Business Analysts if required
  • Work closely with the Core Delivery & Data management team to deliver
  excellence in end to end project delivery
  • IT Business Partner lead for assigned business functions
  • Creating and maintaining all project documentation and project plan templates
  • Identifying and managing project portfolio scope, objectives, & critical success
  factors
  • Tracking and reporting project portfolio progress to stakeholders with a focus on
  budget, scope, resources, and schedule
  • Leading the identification of critical dependencies and risks likely to impact cost,
  time, and quality, early in the project life cycle
  • Ongoing management and mitigation risks, issues and dependencies, escalating as
  appropriate and owning them through to resolution

What you'll bring...

• Leadership - provide vision and direction for the project team to enable
  delivering of the project. Ability to coach and mentor team members where
  required
  • Communication - clear, simple, unambiguous and well structured, and to have
  confidence in dealing with all areas and levels within our business
  • Issue and Risk management - ability take in information quickly and accurately and
  work independently to propose solutions to problems
  • Effective decision making
  • Team building and team management
  • Ownership and accountable for delivering projects effectively
  • Adaptability - adopt appropriate approach to suit different situations and differing
  audiences
  • Motivator - a "go-getter" and generate enthusiasm for this role and the wider
  project process
  • Experience of Portfolio Management, management of prioritises, dependencies,
  risks and issues across multiple Projects
  • Significant experience of full project lifecycle Waterfall Project Delivery
  • 3rd party vendor management
  • Excellent stakeholder management experience, able to work with and influence
  managers across the organisation

Additional Information

We're all about rewarding our team's hard work, that's why...

You'll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands - as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands - so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program - mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. - so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend - who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream - access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts - Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more...