Technology Portfolio Manager

Company Overview

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. 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. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Technology Department

The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability and security for the business. Reporting to the CTO, 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. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.

Technology Governance

Technology Governance is responsible for defining Technology-wide standards, controls and reporting to ensure the Technology business is operating effectively and meeting its financial, strategic, assurance and regulatory obligations. The area covers Technology Strategy & Planning, Risk and Controls, Business Resilience, IT Service Continuity and Enterprise Architecture.

Business Technology Function

This role works closely with the Business Technology function, which ensures delivery of Technology services to each Marex business area. Business Technology partner with the business to optimise their technology stack, prioritise their strategic technology roadmap and drive their software delivery lifecycle. Each Business Technology team is aligned to one of Marex’s business divisions and works with a corresponding Development team and Application Support team. A global team of implementation resources coordinate and support the technology business streams with delivery. The business areas’ change initiatives, alongside other major business-as-usual initiatives, form the Technology change portfolio and require oversight to ensure deliverables remain aligned and tracked.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Governance & Alignment: 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.
• Reporting & Management Information: 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.
• Delivery Oversight & Stakeholder Engagement: 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.
• Quality Assurance & Framework Consistency: 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.
• Continuous Improvement: 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

• Essential: 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, co-ordination 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 the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.

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 pace and 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.

Application

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch! 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.