Senior Portfolio Manager

Supporting a charity to find a Senior Portfolio Manager to lead planning, portfolio performance, resource forecasting and reporting. Working closely with senior leadership, you'll drive portfolio oversight, governance and capacity planning to support strategic decision-making and successful delivery of key organisational priorities. Ideal candidates will have strong PMO, stakeholder management and performance reporting experience.

Location: Liverpool (Hybrid)
Day Rate: 500 p/d
Contract: October 2026 to March 2027

Required in office minimum 1 day per week.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Portfolio Oversight

• Lead the development and maintenance of integrated organisational plans aligned to corporate objectives.
• Ensure plans include key milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions and success measures.
• Coordinate planning activities across multiple business functions.
• Assess organisational capacity, competing priorities and delivery impacts to support decision-making.
• Maintain oversight of portfolio commitments and delivery progress.

Performance Management & Reporting

• Develop and maintain organisational performance frameworks.
• Design meaningful performance measures and KPIs.
• Produce high-quality reporting and management information for senior stakeholders.
• Deliver forecasting, analysis and insights to support evidence-based decision making.
• Drive automation of portfolio reporting and management information.

Governance, Risk & Assurance

• Establish planning, resource management and reporting standards across the organisation.
• Monitor and manage risks, issues and dependencies across the delivery portfolio.
• Support governance forums with timely and accurate reporting.
• Work collaboratively with programme, finance and operational teams to strengthen assurance arrangements.

Resource Planning & Continuous Improvement

• Lead workforce and resource planning activities.
• Develop forecasting and capacity management approaches.
• Identify future resource requirements and constraints.
• Embed best practice planning and performance management processes.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across planning, reporting and governance functions.

About You

We're keen to speak to candidates who have experience in:

• Establishing or transforming PMO, resource management or portfolio planning functions.
• Capacity planning, forecasting and demand management in complex organisations.
• Designing and implementing dependency management frameworks.
• Producing executive-level portfolio reporting and management information.
• Leading organisational change, operating model or business improvement initiatives.
• Working directly with senior leaders to improve governance and organisational delivery performance.

Technical Experience

Essential experience includes:

• Portfolio planning and resource management.
• Capacity planning and forecasting methodologies.
• Dependency management across multiple programmes and projects.
• Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Microsoft Planner.
• Power BI.
• Automated reporting and dashboard creation.
• Governance, assurance and risk management frameworks.

Ideal Background

This role would suit someone coming from a background, particularly within large-scale transformation, government, regulatory or complex matrix organisations.

• Head of PMO
• Portfolio Manager
• Portfolio Office Lead
• Enterprise PMO Lead
• Resource Planning Lead
• Strategic Planning Manager
• Performance & Reporting Lead
• Portfolio Governance Manager

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates