At TransPennine Express, our people live by our values: Be Yourself, Pull Together, Raise the Bar and Make Someone's Day. If you share that spirit - bringing your authentic self to work, working collaboratively to solve challenges, pushing for excellence and making a positive difference to those around you - we'd love you to join our amazing team and help deliver transformational change across the North of England. About the role? We are delivering a portfolio of significant transformation programmes - from our role as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade Enterprise, through to capital investment projects and business change programmes. As Portfolio Strategy Manager, you'll play a critical leadership role within our Integrated Programme Management Office (iPMO), part of the Major Projects Directorate. Your primary responsibility will be to drive the strategic direction of TPE's investment and operational change portfolio. You'll lead on portfolio prioritisation and risk management, ensuring resources are allocated to initiatives that deliver maximum strategic value, and that risks are proactively identified, escalated and mitigated. You'll oversee portfolio-level dependency management, ensuring interdependencies across programmes and projects are managed to optimise outcomes. You'll also lead all scheduling activities for projects and programmes within the directorate's enhancements portfolio, collaborating closely with industry partners to align TPE schedules with wider industry plans, including the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) programme. Key responsibilities include: Leading portfolio prioritisation and supporting decision-making panels Implementing and maintaining portfolio-level risk management practices Overseeing dependency management across programmes and projects Ensuring accurate and standardised schedules are produced and maintained Providing regular reporting and insights to senior leadership and programme boards Supporting and guiding project teams in planning, scheduling and resource allocation Promoting best practices in schedule management and process mapping Championing the use Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QRSA) in scheduling practices About you? We're looking for someone with: Deep knowledge of programme/project management in complex business change environments Experience in portfolio prioritisation, dependency management, and risk management Recognised project management qualification or membership Track record of enhancing project management maturity through new processes, systems and training Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels. Proficient deep understanding of scheduling processes and associated software (e.g. P6 Primavera desirable) Understanding of railway infrastructure and industry structure If that sounds like the right fit for you, we'd love to hear from you, please click apply and complete an application form. What we offer Excellent career prospects. A personal development plan. Structured training and development*. Competitive salary paid on 4 weekly basis. Generous annual leave entitlement. Free TransPennine Express rail travel for you and your dependents*. Travel discounts of up to 75% off other train operating companies, plus international rail travel after 1 years' service* for you and your dependents*. Free & Confidential Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Portal 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you with any finance, family, health, or wellbeing issues you have. We make sure there's someone on-hand to offer guidance, advice, and useful information for our people when they are experiencing hardship at work or at home. Option to join the Railway Pension Scheme with significant employer contributions. Family friendly maternity and paternity benefits. Plus, high street and lifestyle discounts as well as a cycle to work scheme*. *Terms and conditions apply. Goings places has never felt better! At TransPennine Express, it's our goal to help people reach their full potential. We offer the opportunity to not just join the transformation of the rail industry, but to lead it. Our values are designed with every team member in mind; whether it's ensuring you feel free to be yourself at work, or encouraging everyone to pull together and support each other. We promise to value our people for the individuals they are. Whichever department becomes your destination, from the tip of the train, to the tail, our only focus is heading at full speed into the future. So, if making people crack a smile helps you feel at home, and raising standards is second nature to you, we'd love to have you onboard. If you require accessibility features for this advert please navigate to our VERCIDA D&I profile page. We partner with VERCIDA to bring you 'Recite Me', an accessibility tool to suit your individual needs, and provide more details on our company culture. To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. 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