Portfolio Office Manager

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Company Description

Marie Curie is the UK's leading end of life charity. We are the largest non-NHS provider of end of life care in the UK, the only provider across all 4 nations, delivering community nursing and hospice care across the country, while providing information and support on all aspects of dying, death, and bereavement. Our leading research pushes the boundaries of what we know about good end of life, and our campaigns fight for a world where everyone gets to have the best possible quality of life while living with an illness, they're likely to die from.

Job Description

As Portfolio Office Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring Marie Curie's transformation initiatives deliver real value. You'll manage the full portfolio of change proposals and projects - from initial business case through to benefits realisation - helping leaders make informed decisions about priorities, resources and delivery.

By bringing clarity to portfolio performance, identifying dependencies, and enabling smarter prioritisation, your work will help the organisation deliver change faster, use resources more effectively, and ensure transformation initiatives create meaningful benefits.

Your Impact:

• Manage the business transformation portfolio, overseeing the intake, tracking and progress of business cases, projects and change proposals from idea through to delivery and benefits realisation.
• Support value-based prioritisation of initiatives, helping leaders balance organisational impact with delivery capacity and available resources.
• Identify and manage dependencies across projects and teams to optimise delivery flow and reduce bottlenecks across the change portfolio.
• Provide clear portfolio reporting and insights, including status, risks, budgets and benefits, enabling informed decision-making by senior stakeholders.
• Track and monitor benefits realisation, ensuring transformation initiatives deliver the outcomes and value they were designed to achieve.
• Champion lean-agile portfolio management practices, encouraging faster delivery cycles, experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Provide guidance and support to project managers and business owners on business case development, portfolio processes and effective change delivery.
• Facilitate collaboration and alignment across teams through workshops, portfolio reviews and ongoing stakeholder engagement.

Key Criteria:

• Experience managing project portfolios or large-scale change initiatives, ideally within a business transformation or PMO environment in the charity sector.
• Demonstrable competency in applying Lean and/or Agile principles at portfolio level to improve value, flow and prioritisation of work, with a strong understanding of customer value and practical use of Lean thinking in decision-making.
• Experience of introducing or embedding portfolio management ways of working and tools across an organisation using Microsoft platforms, including system-level setup, standardisation, and influencing adoption at scale.
• Strong organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Confidence in analysing complex information and translating it into clear insights, as well as working with visual portfolio management tools and dashboards.
• Relevant qualification in Portfolio Management will be an asset.

Please see the full job description HERE.

Qualifications

Additional Information

Application & Interview Process

• As part of your online application, you will be asked for a CV and supplementary details. Please review both the advert and job description and outline your most relevant skills, experience and knowledge for the role.
• Close date for applications: 27 March 2026. We encourage early applications as we may close the job advert sooner once we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Salary: £50,000 - 60,000 per annum

Contract: Permanent, full-time (35h per week)

Based: UK home-based with occasional travel as required.

Benefits you'll LOVE:

• Flexible working. We're happy to discuss flexible working at the interview stage.
• 25 days annual leave (exclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme (we will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
• Loan schemes for bikes; computers and season tickets
• Continuous professional development opportunities.
• Industry-leading training programmes
• Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programmes
• Enhanced bereavement, family friendly and sickness benefits
• Access to Blue Light Card membership
• Subsidised Eye Care

At Marie Curie, our values are central to everything we do. They guide how we care for people, how we work together, and how we make decisions every day. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe for everyone - staff and volunteers alike - supportive, inclusive and rewarding. We take stringent steps to ensure that anyone who joins our organisation are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. We actively consider our impact on the planet, embedding sustainability into everyday decisions to create a lasting, positive difference for the individuals we care for and the world we share.

We believe everyone should have the opportunity to thrive and fulfil their potential. Marie Curie is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, recognising both the social justice imperative and the strength a diverse workforce brings. We actively encourage applications from people of all cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.

We are happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. If you require any support, please contact us at recruitment@mariecurie.org.uk.

Every application we receive is personally reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team, and in return, we ask that your application authentically reflects you - your experience, perspective and voice.