Programme Portfolio Manager - #1685457

To ensure effective and timely reporting on UKB strategic programmes, including enabling projects, digitisation projects, CSRD projects, and ZEV projects.

To ensure appropriate project governance structures are in place to enable timely delivery of projects to meet UKB Business plan.

To deliver training (as appropriate) of UKB measure card methodology to ensure a consistent and standardised process for Deployment of UKB Business Strategy and Business Plan.

The Programme Portfolio Manager will be accountable to the Head of Strategic Programme Delivery.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager who is looking to blend their project management and analytical skill to progress into programme portfolio management. If you have 60% of the requirement but open to learning and growing to progress to portfolio management, do apply. I am looking for someone who is curious, has fresh ideas, is a team player, and can collaborate with colleagues at all levels.

You will be working Monday to Friday in between the hours of 08:00 - 17:00

Salary - £60,000 - £65,000 plus car or car allowance and bonus

Main Responsibilities

Health and Safety

• Promote, support, and comply with all health and safety practices in the workplace.
  
  

Customer

• Lead the cross-functional teams within UKB, T&S and the wider Arriva Group to define the governance, tracking, monitoring and reporting of all UKB enabling projects, ZEV projects, CSRD projects and technology projects, to ensure goals are progressing within agreed timelines. Lead as the point of contact on UKB strategic projects tracking.
  
  

People

• Provides and manages delivery of comprehensive dashboard reports to leadership teams, highlighting project delivery or blockers to progress. Foster a culture of collaboration developing a community of practice, driving shared learning and open communication, to enhance operating unit team performance and project delivery. Provide ad hoc training as and when required to enable consistency of programme reporting.
  
  

Quality

• Develop, implement and drive a robust governance, ensuring consistency and adherence to project plans and approval processes. Define key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of the strategic portfolio. Provides dashboard updates on all UKB initiatives, highlighting any deviation to plan, blockers or risk to delivery. Highlight any out-of-scope initiatives with corrective recommendations to ensure a complete UKB picture of its strategic initiatives.
  
  

Financial

Collaborate with the Strategic Programme & Governance Director to ensure all strategic projects have funding approval. For projects >£50k UKB Investment Committee approval is required or for project <£50k, London/Region FD and MD approval is required.

Continual Improvement & Innovation

• Drive a culture of innovation by identifying any project opportunities if successful through a pilot period that can be implemented across the wider business if there are operation and/or efficiency gains. Stay abreast of industry trends and best practices to incorporate innovative approaches into standard business process, monitoring, and reporting.
  
  

Corporate Social Responsibility

• Ensure all strategic projects align with sustainability and community engagement objectives. Manage the CSRD data requirements and reporting as part of the overall CSRD business unit reporting.
  
  

Essential Postholder Requirements

• Proven track record of successful project management or business analysis, including providing/presenting reports to senior stakeholders.
• Financial acumen with experience in budget management, financial analysis and reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse data, highlight trends and produce board reports that tells the story in a concise and understandable manner.
• Knowledge of the transport industry
• Experience of delivering insight and governance on an organisation strategic programme portfolio is advantageous.
• Professional certifications in project management or related areas.
  
  

Person Specification

• Demonstrate the Arriva Values, resilience, and consistently positive attitude in a challenging and complex environment.
• Proactive and innovative approach to identifying, addressing and escalating potential risks.
• A proven track record of leading and delivering business analysis or project delivery
• Experience of or open to working at multi-site, multi-functional and multi-level working
• Background in project management or portfolio management.
• Capable of self-starting and constructively spotlighting genuine practical opportunities for improvements in safety, environmental, performance and cost optimisation within a multi-site large organisation.
• Able to take ownership and leadership in managing varying and sometimes conflicting demands.