Portfolio Manager, Spectrum in London

Location: London

Position type: Contractor until end of November 2027 - Inside IR35

The GSMA’s Advocacy campaigns create distinctive portfolio management challenges that require forward-looking vision, robust delivery planning and strong stakeholder coordination. The department’s top priority is to support enabling policy and regulatory environments that allow people, industry and society to thrive. The team governs, manages and reports on project progress at all levels, providing critical project management expertise across the wider GSMA Advocacy department. This enables teams to engage effectively with governments and regulators around the world and deliver results that advance the interests of the mobile industry.

This role will play an important part in supporting the high-impact delivery of the World Radiocommunication Conference campaign, with a particular focus on two pivotal industry events in 2027.

The team brings together professionals from project coordinators to portfolio managers, working through matrixed teams to deliver results for our members. This role will be matrixed into the Spectrum team to support the planning and delivery of the WRC and CPM portfolio of work.

As part of the Advocacy team, the Portfolio Manager will strategically manage activities that deliver results across multiple portfolios, planning and executing projects that support GSMA’s key objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Implement key strategic activities, supported by effective resource planning, to drive results for WRC-27.
• Manage and lead multiple activities to deliver results for the WRC-27 campaign.
• Manage and ensure delivery of cocktail receptions, lunchtime seminars, stand build and stand management for and during CPM27-2 and WRC-27.
• Develop and deliver Advocacy plans, accurately assessing budget, time and cost requirements.
• Oversee the execution of deliverables and maintain the strategic focus of the Spectrum portfolio to achieve desired outcomes.
• Capture and report on key results, producing high-quality reports for business leads and senior management.
• Apply and communicate risk management approaches to senior stakeholders, advising on appropriate mitigations to support effective decision-making.

About You:

• Tenacious and driven to achieve best-in-class results, using appropriate and effective project management practices.
• Confident working with Asana and accredited with project management methodologies.
• Experience delivering global portfolios.
• Able to adapt skills and management approaches in a changing environment, applying strong portfolio and change management capabilities.
• Proven stakeholder planning and management skills, demonstrated through effective communication, planning and execution with internal and external multinational stakeholders.
• Experience working in international and cross-cultural environments, including the delivery of on-the-ground events.
• Strong escalation and stakeholder management skills, ensuring issues are identified and raised in time for mitigations to be applied.
• Able to lead complex projects and portfolio-level activities, achieving ambitious goals through effective resourcing and management.
• Well versed in procurement and contract management, with strong commercial acumen.
• Role models the GSMA’s values, contributes to a positive working environment and can be relied upon to consistently follow through on commitments.

Contract Type: Short term Contractor

Worker type: Contingent Worker

What We Offer:

• Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry.
• We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role.
• By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.
• In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The success of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values:

• Passionately driven: We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.
• Insightful leaders: We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.
• Stronger together: We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Our collective mindset is to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we’re at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.

About the GSMA: The GSMA is a global organisation unifying the mobile ecosystem to discover, develop and deliver innovation foundational to positive business environments and societal change. Our vision is to unlock the full power of connectivity so that people, industry, and society thrive. Representing mobile operators and organisations across the mobile ecosystem and adjacent industries, the GSMA delivers for its members across three broad pillars: Industry Services and Solutions, Connectivity for Good, and Outreach.

Connectivity for Good engages members, governments and civil society, to advance positive policy and spectrum outcomes, facilitate digital innovation to reduce inequalities in our world, and tackle today’s biggest societal challenges such as digital inclusion, climate change and sustainability. Industry Services and Solutions underpins the technology and interoperability that make mobile work. Via our projects, working groups and promotional activities we facilitate the industry’s focus on areas such as 5G, Mobile IoT, fraud and security. And our technical services offer tools, data and resources to enable even more efficient and robust mobile experiences for users. Outreach provides the world’s largest platform, convening and informing the mobile ecosystem, at MWC Barcelona, Shanghai, Los Angeles and the M360 series, and through Mobile World Live and GSMA Intelligence with breaking news, insights and expert analysis.

We invite you to find out more at gsma.com.