ERP Portfolio Lead

Sellick Partnership are supporting one of our value clients with the recruitment of an ERP IT Portfolio Lead on a 1 Year Fixed Term basis.

The Portfolio Lead will be responsible for the delivery of a range of products and projects, leading on planning and executing the portfolio of projects in both agile and waterfall methodologies and ensuring adherence to business priorities.

The Portfolio Lead will manage a team of Project Managers, Delivery Leads and SME's and is expected to support and develop personal growth in the team to ensure quality of service and that appropriate frameworks are applied to each portfolio., * Alongside the PMO, ensure that appropriate assurance is in place and managed, drive decision making, resolving stakeholder conflict, identifying risks and removing obstacles for progression.

• Responsible for the successful delivery of their portfolio through the direct team, Service Delivery teams and wider Tech teams to ensure projects are well planned and delivered.
• Adherence to project governance and managed financially to deliver company benefits.
• Influencing and inputting on Delivery Roadmaps through regular scheduling activities and quarterly planning.
• Maintaining and developing strong relationships with senior business stakeholders and monitoring levels of customer satisfaction.
• Leading and inspiring on the adoption of Agile Ways of Working.

• Proven extensive experience in the delivery of complex implementations of multiple projects in Business Change and Technical arenas.

• Extensive leadership and people management skills in a developing Delivery team.

• Strong communication and facilitation techniques to manage stakeholder in workshops and meetings.

• Proven ability to understand and manage business stakeholder relationships, their needs and priorities

• Experience with tools such as Workfront, MS Project, Jira, Confluence and Power BI.

• Project / Programme Management & Agile qualifications (Prince2, SCRUM, Product Owner, Lean etc.)

• A technical background would be desirable and beneficial to the role.