Technology Portfolio Manager (VN2336) in London

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Marex is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets. The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions, and Agency and Execution. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. Marex was established in 2005 but can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America. For more information visit Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Reporting to the CEO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including a global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.
Technology Governance defines technology-wide standards, controls and reporting to ensure the Technology business is operating effectively and meeting its financial, strategic, assurance and regulatory obligations. It covers Technology Strategy & Planning, Risk and Controls, Business Resilience, IT Service Continuity and Enterprise Architecture.
The Technology Portfolio Manager is responsible for ensuring the Technology Change Portfolio is fully aligned with the organization’s business strategy and for driving greater productivity, transparency, and predictability across the delivery lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Ensure the Technology Change Portfolio is fully aligned with business strategy, priorities, and desired outcomes.
Oversee the governance of the Technology Change Portfolio, including adherence to group and industry best‑practice standards.
Act as the primary Technology contact for the central change function, ensuring consistent engagement and alignment.
Provide regular Management Information (MI) and progress updates for change portfolio checkpoint meetings and other stakeholder forums.
Ensure MI clearly demonstrates alignment of deliverables to strategy, milestones, dependencies, and risks.
Align technology reporting standards to group requirements, shaping and influencing group reporting to reflect industry best practices.
Support Heads of Technology in driving delivery execution, ensuring timelines, milestones, and commitments are met.
Partner with Business Project Managers to oversee key change initiatives, providing visibility of Technology’s contributions, risks, issues, dependencies, and status.
Generate and maintain a benefits realisation plan, ensuring change initiatives deliver measurable organisational value.
Ensure deliverables (Epics) are defined according to agreed guidelines, with complete and accurate data.
Produce exception reporting to improve data quality and strengthen delivery discipline.
Ensure consistency across Technology in defining, tracking, and managing deliverables within the change framework.
Embed a culture of continuous improvement across the Technology delivery lifecycle.
Define meaningful KPIs that provide actionable insights for Technology management.
Identify opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and governance structures to improve efficiency and transparency.
Skills & Experience
Previous experience in a PMO within a Financial Services environment.
Knowledge of JIRA (Atlassian) and different tooling within that product.
Excellent understanding of Agile methodology and its application within Technology.
Self‑starter, with ability to analyse complex situations and define approach.
Stakeholder management and business analysis.
Delivery focussed, displaying entrepreneurial and leadership skills.
Formal training in PMO specialism, such as P30, PMO Administration or Managing Successful Programs (MSP).
Project planning, coordination and execution.
Desirable
Previous experience with a Financial Services organisation.
Recognised qualifications in Agile.
Agile and scrum development methodologies.
Understanding of Benefits Realisation plans and outputs.
Enterprise reporting (PowerBI preferred).
Experience working in a regulated environment and knowledge of risk and compliance requirements associated with this role.
Competencies
A collaborative team player, approachable, self‑efficient and influences a positive work environment.
Resilient in a challenging, fast‑paced environment.
Ability to take a high level of responsibility in a fast‑paced, high‑volume environment.
Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others.
Demonstrates curiosity.
Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness.
Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or would like us to do anything differently to help you, please include it in your application.
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