Portfolio Advisor

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Our Technology and Cyber team are looking for an experienced PMO Advisor to join the team. As a PMO Advisor within Technology & Cyber (TeCy), you will play a critical role in driving portfolio governance, enabling demand prioritisation, and ensuring consistency and rigour across a complex technology transformation landscape. You will own key PMO and demand management processes end-to-end, influence senior stakeholders, and drive consistency, transparency, and continuous improvement across the portfolio. You will act as a trusted partner to Programme Leads, Product Owners, and Technology Leadership, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and robust execution.

What you will be doing

• Portfolio Governance and Reporting
  • Own, embed, and continuously improve governance frameworks across the Technology Portfolio, ensuring alignment with TeCy standards and Baringa best practice.
  • Act as a centre of excellence for PMO capability, driving consistency in delivery approach, controls, and reporting across programmes and workstreams.
  • Support the shaping of programme-level planning and controls, including ownership of tracking and reporting against milestone plans, critical path tracking, and facilitation of plan control forums.
  • Own portfolio-level RAID management, ensuring high-quality risk, issue and dependency identification and proactive mitigation processes are in place and adhered to.
  • Deliver robust programme health reporting, leveraging trend analysis and root cause insights to inform decision-making.
  • Proactively surface delivery risks and challenge status updates, driving accountability and resolution.
• Continuous Improvements and Delivery Excellence
  • Continuously enhance PMO and reporting processes, simplifying where possible and improving quality and usability of outputs.
  • Improve mechanisms for workstream reporting and data capture, increasing automation and reducing overhead.
  • Identify and implement best practices, tools, and innovations (e.g., ADO, dashboards, reporting automation).
  • Contribute to the evolution of TeCy portfolio management capability, sharing knowledge with others.
• Demand Management and Prioritisation
  • Support the Technology demand management framework, ensuring a clear, structured intake, triage, and prioritisation process.
  • Support capacity and investment planning, ensuring demand is balanced against resource availability and delivery constraints.
  • Provide data-led insights into pipeline health, demand trends, and prioritisation decisions.
• Change and Communication Management
  • Support the development and execution of change and adoption approaches, ensuring visibility, engagement, and readiness across stakeholders.
  • Support portfolio communications cadence, including leadership updates, programme reporting, and key messaging.
  • Develop clear, concise, and impactful executive-level materials (e.g., Leadership packs, steering updates).

Your skills and experience

• Strong experience in PMO or portfolio management within large-scale technology or transformation programmes.
• Proven ability to operate at portfolio level, managing complexity, ambiguity, and multiple competing priorities.
• Deep understanding of RAID management, programme controls, and planning methodologies, including critical path management.
• Advanced skills in PowerPoint, Excel, and reporting tools for analysis and executive storytelling.
• Experience using tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO), ServiceNow SPM, dashboards, or portfolio reporting platforms.
• Strong commercial and strategic awareness, linking demand to business outcomes.
• Strong experience creating executive-level communications and leadership reporting.
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement and confident presenting and leading discussions with large groups.
• Ability to drive clarity and ensure alignment.

What a career at Baringa will give you

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: All our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes.
• Wellbeing Fund: We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed.