Portfolio Manager

Oxford, Oxfordshire
Nominet

Company description:

About Us

We’re Nominet – a world-leading domain name registry operating at the heart of internet infrastructure. While we’re best known for running .UK domains, we also help protect public services from cyber threat.

As a public benefit company, our work funds the ability to make a positive impact on society. We’ve donated millions to projects that use technology to improve peoples’ lives and have committed to delivering £60m worth of support over the next three years.

We’re also already a Carbon Neutral company and we’re committed to helping the UK reach Net Zero by 2050.

Job description:

Portfolio Manager

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Hybrid minimum 20% on-site in our Oxford Science Park office

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone.If there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

About Us

We’re Nominet – a world-leading domain name registry operating at the heart of internet infrastructure. While we’re best known for running .UK domains, we also help protect public services from cyber threat.

As a public benefit company, our work funds the ability to make a positive impact on society. We’ve donated millions to projects that use technology to improve peoples’ lives and have committed to delivering £60m worth of support over the next three years.

We’re also already a Carbon Neutral company and we’re committed to helping the UK reach Net Zero by 2050.

About the role

Nominet is seeking an experienced Portfolio and Program Manager. This role will juggle 3 critical core responsibilities:

• It will play a pivotal role in the strategic development, prioritisation and critically the delivery and deployment of a portfolio of business change and technical delivery work.
• It will fulfil a vital hands-on role managing multiple complex concurrent projects / work streams within Nominet technology division and across the wider business, liaising with customers and other departments to ensure a successful project delivery within budget and on time.
• Finally, it will require people managing directly the project delivery team within the portfolio both direct line to the project and portfolio managers that sit within the portfolio, but also to dotted line manage the product managers an technical team managers and squad scrum masters that need to be coordinated to deliver work at the multiple portfolio levels.

About you and your experience

• Likely to be PRINCE2 or PMI and Agile trained and / or to have an expert knowledge of the project management lifecycle process in both waterfall, agile and the blend of both to deliver across the portfolio.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex and technical information effectively in written and oral form in a way that can be moderated to a blend of different audiences.
• Conversant with change management principles either APMG or PROSCI
• Capable of managing a diverse workload and prioritising work to meet business deadlines and navigate executive and stakeholders through the aspects effecting making critical trade-off decisions.
• Able to challenge both stakeholders and suppliers on both business, strategic and technical issues whilst maintaining professionalism and maintaining excellent relationships.
• Experience working closely with business leaders to document and develop portfolio and business strategies.
• Strong team working experience and leadership in managing to resolution across multiple matrixed functions and teams.
• An ability to produce easily readable and well-structured text.
• Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and build a consensus to resolution with the business stakeholder group.
• Able to use data to drive through efficiencies and understand and interpret the risks.
• Ability to proactively and strategically think ahead of problems and risks to form the working teams and reaction to obstacles and risks that frequently impact business success.
• Excellent understanding of financial budgeting, forecasting and analysis.
• A high level of tenacity and negotiation skills in obtaining support, resources and commitment to the agreed direction and delivery.
• Ability to multi-task and juggle lots of strands of work with differing priorities.
• Stakeholder management including external partners
• Experience of managing technical projects would be extremely desirable.

What we offer

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, with the ability to purchase an additional 5 days
• Bupa private healthcare + Employee Assistance Programme and Medicash
• Electric vehicle scheme with on-site charging points
• Rewards platform with access to discounts at hundreds of shops, restaurants etc.
• And many more!

Please note, 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.