Transformation Portfolio Lead

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About The Role The Transformation Portfolio Lead supports reporting, visibility, governance and dependency management across Euromonitor's priority transformation initiatives, while execution ownership remains with divisional workstream leaders. Reporting to the VP, Strategy & Transformation, the role provides analysis and insights to support portfolio prioritisation decisions and helps maintain a clear, consistent view of transformation activity across the business. The role is an individual contributor and works through influence, coordination and strong operating discipline. It makes transformation activity visible, identifies and escalates risks, dependencies and delivery issues, and supports consistent ways of working across cross-divisional change through agreed standards, tools and forums.

Why this role: broad exposure to priority transformation work, the opportunity to support senior leadership forums, and the chance to improve how a global business manages transformation delivery, reporting and governance.

Core Responsibilities

• Portfolio reporting & visibility
• Dependencies, risks & escalation
• Standards, tools & community of practice
• Operations, benefits & delivery performance

Success Measures

• Timely, accurate and consistent reporting across priority transformation initiatives.
• Clear visibility of initiative status, strategic alignment, delivery progress and areas requiring sponsor or leadership attention.
• Effective governance cadence that enables sponsors and programme leaders to review progress, resolve issues and maintain delivery momentum.
• Risks, blockers and dependencies identified early, tracked clearly and escalated through the appropriate forums.
• Consistent use of agreed transformation standards, tools and reporting templates across relevant programmes and projects.
• Sponsors and programme leaders supported with clear tracking of intended benefits, adoption indicators and delivery performance.

Essential Skills And Qualifications

• Leadership & influence: builds trust and holds the cadence with senior stakeholders without formal authority over their teams.
• Portfolio & PMO expertise: has supported or coordinated transformation portfolios, PMOs or large-scale change programmes in a complex, multi-divisional organisation, with strong portfolio reporting, dependency tracking and risk management capability.
• Dependency & decision facilitation: identifies cross-divisional dependencies and the decisions needed, and escalates them for resolution.
• Insight & communication: translates complex portfolio information into concise, practical reporting and governance materials for senior stakeholders.
• Experience & credentials: relevant experience supporting transformation portfolios, PMOs or large-scale change programmes; PMP, PgMP or MSP welcome.

What It Takes To Succeed

The successful candidate pairs the discipline of a strong portfolio operator with the coordination skills to support senior stakeholders and programme leaders. They bring structure to complexity, improve visibility across fragmented information, and help ensure risks, dependencies and delivery issues are identified, tracked and escalated appropriately.

Benefits

Why work for Euromonitor? Our Values: We seek individuals who act with integrity. We look for candidates who are curious about the world. We feel that as a community, we're stronger together. We seek to enable people to feel empowered. We welcome candidates who bring strength in diversity.

International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office but we communicate across our 16 offices worldwide on a daily basis.

Hardworking and sociable: our staff know how to work hard and know also how to enjoy themselves! We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socialising including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of other groups to be involved with.

Committed to making a difference: We believe that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It gives all new starters a donation amount on joining us which they can give to a charity of their choice. It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights.

Excellent benefits: we offer competitive salaries, generous holiday allowances, hybrid working and, in many offices, a Core Hours policy allowing flexible start and finish times to each day.

Opportunities to grow: we offer training and development opportunities at all levels. The vast majority of our Managers and Directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.