Portfolio Manager x2 in Oxford

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid, with a minimum of 20% in the Oxford office per month

We have two vacancies available for Portfolio Managers.

About Us: We’re Nominet – a world-leading domain name registry operating at the heart of the UK internet. While we're best known for running .UK domains, our DNS expertise also underpins critical internet infrastructure that government services, including the NHS, rely on. As a public benefit company, our work has a positive impact on society. We’ve donated millions to projects that use technology to improve people’s lives and have committed to delivering £60m worth of support over the next three years.

The Role: Nominet has an ongoing stream of transformation change across its customer-facing products, supporting technology platforms and back-office operations. Nominet is seeking an experienced Portfolio Manager to manage a portfolio of change aligned to specific parts of the business. This role will have three major focus areas:

• Shape roadmaps and future demand into a prioritised pipeline of work with well-understood capacity, funding, and outcomes to set delivery up for success.
• Convert and deliver change via the appropriate delivery mechanisms, managing cadence and progress through the delivery lifecycle.
• Manage a team of delivery resources appropriate to the size and scale of the portfolio across a range of initiative sizes and delivery vehicles.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Portfolio Leadership & Delivery
  • Develop and manage integrated roadmaps across multiple workstreams & operational teams.
  • Monitor portfolio performance using appropriate metrics.
  • Lead the end-to-end delivery of large-scale programmes, with likely a significant technology component.
  • Establish and maintain delivery governance, plans, milestones, risks, and dependencies.
  • Ensure initiatives & overall portfolio are delivered in line with agreed scope, timelines, budget, and benefits.
  • Ensure that deliverables (technical & business) meet the business needs.
  • Ensure that portfolio outcomes are aligned to strategy, business cases are valid and sufficient to track benefits realisation during and after initiative delivery.
  • Support annual planning & budgeting and ensure that portfolio is robust, healthy and set up for success now and into the future.
• Stakeholder Management
  • Support Executives/Sponsors in articulating the objectives, benefits and outcomes of the initiatives within the portfolio and that the programme & change management are aligned to deliver and sustain the benefits realisation.
  • Support Executives/Sponsors in their roles and ensure that demand and delivery decision-making is effective.
  • Ensure that communications and reporting are in place to support business objectives across stakeholders, change and progress.
  • Ensure agreed actions are completed, risk identified and mitigated, issues resolved and decisions agreed in a timely way.
  • Identify & track resource requirements and resolve availability conflicts.
• Planning & Governance
  • Work with colleagues, stakeholders and functional teams to devise plans, identify inbound and outbound dependencies and determine the critical path.
  • Operate across both Demand and Delivery lifecycles to allow smooth transition from Demand to Delivery and that delivery is set up for success.
• People Management
  • Ensure the team has the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles to ensure effective delivery of key priorities for the team.
  • Proactively enable and empower our teams to deliver at their best through timely coaching and feedback.
  • Role model a performance-driven culture and process, in line with required timelines and processes.
• Change Management
  • Where programme outcomes require Stakeholders to adopt change, apply change management practices to support outcomes and sustain change post-delivery.
• Supplier & Partner management
  • Act as point of escalation for appropriate suppliers or partners who are key to one or more initiatives' success.
• Best Practice
  • Contribute to the delivery methods and community to foster best practice and a consistent approach to achieving stated outcomes from investments.

About You:

• People management skills, both informal coaching & mentoring, but also line management of 4-6 professionals.
• Demonstrable experience in portfolio management across demand as well as delivery, specifically operating within a strategy, planning and delivery lifecycle and smooth transitions between each.
• Demonstrable experience operating across both agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and waterfall (PRINCE2, PMP, MSP) delivery frameworks, with the ability to translate fluently between the two.
• Substantial delivery experience, having delivered multiple programmes and projects across a range of industries and performed a range of roles through their career, giving exposure to all aspects of change delivery.
• Significant experience of managing software development and/or complex projects.
• Expert stakeholder management including external partners.
• Proficient with portfolio and project management tooling (e.g. Jira, Confluence, Miro, MS Project).

What to expect next:

• 1st stage: Introduction call with a member of the Talent Acquisition team.
• 2nd stage: Interview with the hiring manager, focused on portfolio leadership, delivery experience, and stakeholder management.
• Final stage: Values and leadership conversation with relevant stakeholders.

Our Values:

• We Make Things Happen
• We Pull Together
• We Bring A Positive Mindset
• We Keep It Simple

Our people make things happen, but our values are our compass as a company, guiding our day-to-day work and building our culture. They reflect that we're strongest when we're proactive and pull together, while underlining the importance of a "glass half full" mindset and aiming to keep things simple for success.

What We Offer:

• Early Finish Friday – 34-hour working week with full-time pay (finish at midday on Friday).
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy an additional 5 days.
• Bupa private healthcare + Employee Assistance Programme.
• Pension scheme matched to 7%.
• Electric vehicle scheme with on-site charging points.
• Rewards platform with discounts at hundreds of retailers and restaurants.
• Medicash discounts on routine healthcare including optical and dental.
• Annual company bonus.

Diversity Statement: We're passionate about creating a workplace where every individual is valued, respected, and empowered. Somewhere we can benefit from all forms of diversity and discover the true value in our differences. If there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

Security Statement: Nominet is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of the internet and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment by participating in the relevant security and screening processes. All roles working for Nominet will be subject to a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. Some roles, due to the nature of their work, will require additional security clearance. Please note that Nominet is unable to provide visa sponsorship or relocation support for this position.