Job Introduction
Main Responsibilities
The Portfolio Manager will drive and provide oversight assurance across a portion of the overall change portfolio. Partnering with delivery and product teams, they will monitor portfolio performance, anticipate risks, and drive effective mitigation strategies.
The role will engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, ensuring clear communication, alignment, and collaboration across the portfolio. They will proactively resolve critical challenges, provide data-driven insights, and support executive decision-making to strengthen portfolio governance and optimise strategic outcomes.
- Provide oversight and assurance across the change portfolio, execution plans, and outcomes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional portfolio activities, managing interdependencies and maintaining a forward-looking view to support proactive decision-making and risk mitigation
- Oversee portfolio dependency management, ensuring seamless integration between workstreams, portfolios, and wider to optimise execution and minimise delivery risks
- Lead key steering committees, ensuring structured, insight-driven discussions that support effective decision-making and portfolio governance
- Lead portfolio level risk and issue management, identifying systemic risks, tracking key themes, and implementing effective mitigation strategies to unblock critical initiatives and safeguard delivery timelines
- Drive portfolio level resource management, maintaining a portfolio-wide resource plan, enabling strategic prioritisation, and forecasting future capability needs
- Own and manage portfolio level financial reporting, ensuring financial discipline through monthly reconciliations, forecasting, and investment optimisation
- Leverage portfolio data, analytics, and management insights to drive data-informed decisions, optimise investment allocation, and enhance strategic portfolio outcomes
- Embed a culture of continuous improvement, by refining ways of working, increasing workflow, and driving operational excellence across the change portfolio
- Actively promotes and ensures adherence to the Bank's Risk Management framework and relevant risk and compliance policies and procedures, ensuring timely and appropriate escalation of concerns to relevant senior stakeholders.
Ideal Candidate
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The role holder will have extensive experience managing large-scale portfolios in complex environments, with a proven ability to integrate delivery execution, governance frameworks, and financial management. They will demonstrate expertise in optimising investment decisions, enhancing portfolio value, and driving performance through proactive risk management and strategic stakeholder engagement.
- Extensive portfolio management experience
- Professional certification and experience across both Waterfall and Agile methodologies
- Strong ability to align the portfolio with the broader business strategy, ensuring projects deliver maximum strategic value
- Ability to see the bigger picture and anticipate future needs or risks, guiding the portfolio in a direction that supports long-term organisation success.
- Team Player. Enjoys collaborating with, learning from, and guiding others.
- Skilled in managing time effectively, prioritising tasks and meeting deadlines
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to work independently, take initiative, solve problems, and make decisions.
- Proactive, forward looking, flexible attitude with the ability to challenge constructively
- Attention to detail and an organised approach to work
- Proven track record of influencing senior executives and facilitating alignment across complex, multi-stakeholder environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to analyse, articulate and present complex issues clearly and concisely to all levels of stakeholders
- Experienced user of enterprise portfolio management tools, JIRA, Confluence, Teams, SharePoint, Excel and Power Point.
- Problem-solving abilities and a results-oriented mindset, identifying issues and driving resolutions to conclusion with minimal management support
- Strong understanding of Change risk, governance and controls in a regulated environment
Company Information
Handelsbanken is a relationship bank with a decentralised way of working, a strong local presence thanks to a nationwide network of branches, and a long-term approach to customer relations. Each Handelsbanken branch operates as a local business enabling it to make decisions at a local level and provide a bespoke service. The focus is always on the need of the individual customer and not on the sale of specific products.
We are embarking on an exciting Business Transformation journey. This transformation will significantly enhance our technology system systems, processes and services, bringing evolution to our ways of working. Join us in this transformative journey, where your dedication, adaptability and commitment will play a crucial role in shaping the future of banking for our valued customers.
The Bank is deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities. This is so that we are an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work that encourages everyone to apply, regardless of socio-economic background, age, disability, pregnancy and/or parental status, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin), veteran status, marital and civil partnership status, religion or belief, sex, gender reassignment or sexual orientation.
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At Handelsbanken, we deeply value our unique culture and values including trust in and respect for each individual. We take pride in nurturing a work environment where people flourish, and where they are empowered to take decisions in their areas of expertise. We take a long term perspective in everything we do and want each employee who joins us to build a long terms successful career with the Bank.
What is in it for you?
- We have a wide range of learning and development available, empowering and enabling our colleagues to take ownership of their own development.
- Competitive Salary and an extensive range of benefits is provided, including private medical insurance, income protection and life assurance
- A market-leading pension contribution of 15% paid by the bank, which can be invested in a wide range of funds (including ESG and Shariah funds)
Application next steps
Your journey with us begins once you have submitted your application. One of our Handelsbanken recruiters will be reviewing your details and will later organise a phone conversation if you match the role requirements. If there is a mutual fit, we will extend an invitation for you to participate in an interview.
How can we support you to be your best self? Our Talent Acquisition team will be happy to provide support e.g. if you need additional time to prepare for an interview or you have any requirements for any part of the interview/hiring process – just let us know by email uk_talent@careers.handelsbanken.co.uk.
This advert will be live for a minimum of two weeks. However, please note that after the two weeks, the closing date could change at any time depending on the number of responses received.
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