At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.
By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.
With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR's track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers.
MHR is more than just a place to work; it's a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what's most important to you- work that matters.
With us, you'll grow, find your flow, and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.
Your Career
Step into a leadership role where you'll shape the successful delivery of complex customer implementations and drive performance across a portfolio of strategic projects. As a Portfolio Manager, reporting to the Head of Project Management, you'll lead and support a team of Project Managers to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery and strong customer outcomes.
You'll balance operational oversight with strategic thinking, managing performance, strengthening governance, and ensuring project standards are applied consistently across the portfolio. This role offers the opportunity to influence delivery excellence, support commercial success, and play a key role in how Professional Services continues to evolve within MHR.
Your Team
You'll lead a team of Project Managers, providing line management, mentoring, and practical support to help them deliver successfully. Through regular reviews, audits, and performance discussions, you'll ensure projects are well-managed, risks are controlled, and delivery standards remain high.
You'll also work closely with colleagues across Professional Services, Sales, and the PMO to manage resource utilisation, support pre-sales activity, and ensure the effective management of the wider project portfolio. Collaboration will be central to your role, aligning delivery, commercial performance, and customer outcomes.
Your Impact
Your leadership will directly influence the success of customer implementations and the performance of the project portfolio. By embedding strong governance and consistent delivery standards, you'll help ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the expected quality.
You'll proactively monitor project health across the portfolio, identifying risks early, supporting resolution of issues, and helping prevent customer escalations. Where needed, you'll step into hands-on project leadership during periods of high demand or team absence, managing risks, budgets, changes, and communications throughout the project lifecycle.
Through effective resource management and collaboration with Sales and delivery teams, you'll help optimise utilisation, identify commercial opportunities, and support revenue targets aligned to the business plan. Your work will strengthen delivery performance, improve customer outcomes, and ensure project management methodology is understood and applied consistently across the organisation.
Skills
Experience leading and supporting Project Managers within a delivery or Professional Services environment
Proven track record managing HR and Payroll systems implementations
Strong understanding of project governance, delivery standards, and portfolio oversight
Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at all organisational levels
High attention to detail with a structured, methodical approach to planning and oversight
Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
Commercial awareness, including supporting contract design and identifying growth opportunities
Ability to manage utilisation, performance metrics, and delivery KPIs
Confidence working collaboratively across delivery, sales, and operational teams
A proactive leadership style with a focus on quality, consistency, and continuous improvement
Benefits To Support You Personally And Professionally
Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:
Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
Enhanced Family leave
My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage
We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.
At MHR, we're completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported.
Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you're excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we'll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.
If we receive an exceptionally high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than originally advertised.