PMO Portfolio Lead

Role Overview

We’re looking for a proactive and strategically minded PMO Portfolio Lead to drive visibility, alignment, and governance across our change portfolio. This role is ideal for someone with strong analytical, organisational, and stakeholder engagement skills, who thrives in a dynamic environment and is passionate about driving visibility, alignment, and continuous improvement across strategic initiatives.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in a PMO, Portfolio Office, or similar role within a technology or transformation function.
• Strong understanding of portfolio and project governance, frameworks, and tooling.
• Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including stakeholder engagement across all levels.
• A proactive, collaborative, and improvement-focused mindset.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Practical knowledge of demand and capacity planning , including tools and techniques to balance workload and resourcing.

Key Responsibilities

• Portfolio & Financial Oversight: Maintain an up-to-date portfolio view of all active and planned initiatives, tracking delivery, spend, and value. Support budget planning, forecasting, and resource alignment.
• Agile Reporting & Insight: Create dashboards and reporting packs that provide visibility of milestones, blockers, risks, and dependencies. Tailor insights for CIO and leadership updates.
• Governance & Risk Management: Embed consistent portfolio governance and risk management practices, enabling early identification and escalation of issues.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with Product Owners, Delivery Leads, Finance, and Corporate Planning to align strategic goals with delivery outcomes.
• Communications & Engagement: Lead weekly internal updates and team communications, celebrating achievements and promoting transparency across ONEIT.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify gaps and lead improvements in delivery assurance, PMO processes, and reporting frameworks.

Desirable

• Experience working in an IT or Digital delivery environment.
• Exposure to strategic planning or corporate portfolio functions.
• Familiarity with large-scale technology transformation programmes.
• Experience with Jira, including advanced dashboards, portfolio-level views via Advanced Roadmaps, and cross-team tracking, dependency mapping, and release planning.
• MSP, P30 Certification

About Brother

Brother is a global brand, delivering products and services to customers worldwide with manufacturing and sales facilities in over 40 countries and regions. Since being established in 1908 as a sewing machine repair business, the Brother Group has grown to be at the forefront of innovation in its history of more than 110 years. Underlying all activities is our “At your side” spirit, which always places our customers first.

We do this with a customer-first attitude and commitment to the circular economy, ensuring minimal impact on the environment through our “At your side 2030” vision and environmentally conscious approach.

About BIE

Brother International Europe (BIE) is the European Headquarters of the Brother Group. Working alongside 20 European offices, BIE manages Pan European operations and strategy, ensuring a genuinely unified and customer-centric approach is always adopted. BIE also provides sales offices with support in Product Marketing, Technical and Logistic Services, Environmental strategy and management, IT, Finance, and Administration.

Being Investors in People approved, BIE is committed to the staff at all levels ensuring we optimise our talent and continuously invest for the future.

Why work for Brother?

When you join Brother, you join a company steeped in history where everyone is given the opportunity to succeed. Retaining the small family feel is something we take great pride in, and no matter where you work, employees are given the tools needed to shine and are supported to build long, successful careers that often span decades. Our \”At your side\” approach extends to everything we do, and we are proud to have created an inclusive workspace that welcomes everyone that wants to thrive.

You are also joining a company committed to people and the planet. \”At your side 2030\” is the message that underpins our vision for the future. Brother has been leading the way in creating Circular products that have as little impact as possible on the environment. And our commitment to contributing toward the global circular economy underpins everything we do globally.

\”At your side\” is more than a slogan to us; it\’s our purpose to fulfil every day. With a legacy spanning over a century, Brother is a place to start or expand any career.

What’s on offer

As well as a competitive salary, BIE offer a range of benefits, including:

• Hybrid flexible working arrangements that fit around you, allowing you to take advantage of the office space as well as working from home and flexitime.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with the opportunity to purchase 5 additional holidays per year.
• Industry leading Pension Scheme with company contributions up to 10% of salary and the ability to make additional contributions through salary sacrifice.
• Excellent training and career development opportunities including a huge library of e-learning courses.
• Life Assurance set at 4 times your annual salary.
• Simply Health cash plans subsidised by 50% of the single membership cost.
• Other benefits include: Company Sick pay, Permanent Health Insurance, Free parking, facilities, Employee Assistance Program, Halle tickets, Environmental days, dress down policy, Christmas party, access to MIND, and many more perks.

We’re actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences, and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs. And we offer a flexible working environment so you can adjust your hours to suit your personal circumstances.