Portfolio Manager Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (hybrid working) We are looking for a Group IT Portfolio Manager to shape, manage, and optimise our portfolio of digital projects. This is a key leadership role that will define and mature our DevSecOps delivery methodology, collaborating closely with product owners and cross‑functional teams to drive value across the organisation. As the Group IT Portfolio Manager, you will co‑ordinate and manage a diverse portfolio of digital initiatives, applying an iterative and flexible approach to delivery governance. You will introduce and embed a DevSecOps framework that supports a wide range of Group IT products, ensuring consistent, high‑quality delivery and transparent reporting across all pipelines. Key Responsibilities: Portfolio Management: Oversee multiple DevSecOps delivery pipelines, including backlog capture, prioritisation, sprint planning, delivery, and reporting. Partner with the Group IT Product Manager community to drive throughput and value. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with Group IT, Business Units, and wider Group Functions to define delivery outcomes and measurable benefits. Resource & Team Management: Lead cross‑functional agile squads, including internal IT staff, vendors, and external contractors. Risk & Issue Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate risks to ensure delivery success. Demonstrate effective issue management and escalation. Delivery Compliance: Define and implement a DevSecOps delivery methodology. Ensure adherence to IT governance, security standards, and regulatory requirements. Quality Assurance: Guarantee that deliverables meet organisational quality standards and align with business goals. Communication & Reporting: Maintain clear communication with product owners, stakeholders, and senior leadership. Provide regular updates on delivery throughput, performance, and benefits realisation. Change Management: Coordinate change management and communication plans to support sprint and release activities. Experience & Skills Required: Portfolio Management: 3 years’ proven experience defining and implementing global DevSecOps delivery models and frameworks. Agile Delivery Expertise: Hands‑on experience working across cloud, infrastructure, networks, digital workplace, data, and other product sets. Strong knowledge of Lean/Agile methodologies, productivity improvement, and executive reporting. Leadership: Demonstrable experience motivating and guiding agile squads across internal and external teams. Communication: Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. Problem‑Solving: Strong analytical skills and a strategic, data‑driven mindset. Agile Tooling: Proven experience configuring agile tooling to support DevSecOps delivery. Nice to Have: Agile delivery qualification or equivalent practical experience. Experience with tools such as Triskell, MS Project, JIRA, and Azure DevOps. Experience delivering within global agile environments. Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies. Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones! Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included. Benefits You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below. Everyone is Included at Spirax Group We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique. We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working. We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments. We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.