PMO & Portfolio Manager

PMO & Portfolio Manager

Are you an experienced PMO and portfolio management professional looking for your next challenge? Do you thrive on bringing structure, governance and clarity to complex technology portfolios, while influencing senior stakeholders and driving successful delivery? We are seeking a PMO & Portfolio Manager to join Peel Ports Group, providing leadership across a portfolio of strategic technology projects and programmes, ensuring strong governance, effective prioritisation, robust financial control and the successful delivery of business value across the organisation.

Your Role

As PMO & Portfolio Manager, you will lead governance, planning, prioritisation and delivery assurance across a portfolio of strategic technology projects and programmes. Working within the Programme Delivery Office, you will provide oversight of project performance, resource allocation, financial management, risk and dependency management, ensuring initiatives are delivered on time, within budget and aligned to business objectives. You will partner with Technology, Finance, Commercial, Procurement and operational teams, while providing leadership and challenge to Project Managers and delivery teams. The role is focused on driving consistent project delivery, strengthening governance and controls, maximising business value, and supporting the successful realisation of benefits across the technology portfolio

What you’ll bring

An experienced technology programme leader with a proven track record of delivering complex IT and business change initiatives across large-scale environments. Skilled in managing multi-disciplinary teams, senior stakeholders, suppliers, budgets, governance, risk, and benefits realisation. Strong commercial and financial awareness, with the ability to align programme delivery to business outcomes and EBITDA performance. Confident providing leadership, coaching, and challenge within matrix organisations while balancing strategic oversight with hands-on delivery. Programme management qualifications such as MSP, PRINCE2 or Agile are preferred, as is experience with Operational Technology or Industrial Control Systems. A full UK driving licence is required. 

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator.  We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers.  Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.  Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers.  Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)
• Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
• Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required