Project / Portfolio Manager – Risk & Controls Technology
Overview
This role is responsible for managing the portfolio of work across a Risk & Controls technology team, acting as the single point of coordination for incoming demand, prioritisation, and delivery oversight. The focus is on ensuring work is clearly defined, appropriately sized, aligned to team capacity, and prioritised to support risk and control remediation.
This is a mid–senior level role requiring strong stakeholder engagement, structured thinking, and the ability to present clear options and recommendations to enable decision‑making. Ownership centres on a portfolio of smaller initiatives, with selective end‑to‑end ownership of contained projects.
Must‑Have Requirements
1. Proven Project / Portfolio Management experience
2. Demonstrable experience managing a portfolio of work and coordinating demand across a delivery or technology team.
3. Strong work intake, triage, and sizing capability
4. Able to assess new requests, size effort, understand dependencies, and determine feasibility based on capacity.
5. Mid–senior stakeholder engagement skills
6. Confident working with a range of stakeholders; able to communicate clearly, challenge constructively, and influence outcomes.
7. Prioritisation & capacity planning expertise
8. experience reviewing team effort and recommending prioritisation based on competing demands and delivery constraints.
9. Decision‑support mindset
10. Ability to consolidate updates, highlight problems or risks, and present clear options to support decision‑making.
11. Exposure to risk‑ or control‑focused delivery (preferred, not essential)
12. experience working on risk or control‑related initiatives is desirable. Knowledge of Technology Controls is beneficial but deep cyber or risk specialism is not required.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio & Demand Management
13. Own and manage the portfolio of work across the technology team
14. Act as the central intake point for new work requests
15. Triage, size, and assess new demand against existing commitments and capacity
16. Maintain demand, dependencies, updates, and delivery status in a single transparent view
Prioritisation & Capacity Planning
17. Review team effort and available bandwidth across change and BAU activity
18. Recommend prioritisation options aligned to risk, controls impact, urgency, and capacity
19. Identify conflicts, delivery risks, and trade‑offs early
20. Present clear options, issues, and recommendations to support leadership decisions
Delivery Ownership
21. Own a small number of contained initiatives end‑to‑end where required
22. Support delivery of risk‑ and control‑led work, including remediation activity
Contract Details
23. Contract: 6‑month rolling
24. Location: Sheffield (3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
Job Title: Portfolio/Project Manager
Location: Sheffield, UK
Rate/Salary: - GBP Daily
Job Type: Contract
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