Enterprise Portfolio Management Lead

Salary: £65,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant experience operating in complex IT programme and portfolio environments, leading high-risk and high-value initiatives.
• Experience prioritising demand and resources based on strategic intent and return on investment.
• Experience ensuring effective governance across the full delivery lifecycle, including designing and leading structured quarterly planning cycles.
• Proven ability to lead and facilitate discussions with senior stakeholders, including Heads of Service, Digital Services leadership teams and executive audiences.
• Strong knowledge of current technologies used to build and operate digital services.
• Ability to understand technical plans, service design and delivery activities sufficiently to enable informed, evidence-based decision-making at pace.
• Degree-qualified, preferably in Technology, Engineering or a mathematical discipline, or holds a recognised project or programme management accreditation, or equivalent professional experience.
• Confident and credible leader with experience implementing change across teams and functions.
• Experience applying lean, continuous improvement and lifecycle-based approaches.
• Ability to create an environment where teams are supported to perform, improve and deliver sustainable outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• We lead Enterprise Portfolio Management across business-as-usual activities, programmes and projects.
• We provide oversight of demand, capacity and resources to ensure delivery is aligned to our organisational and Digital Services Strategy.
• We establish a forward-looking portfolio function that anticipates demand and optimises the use of resources to support strategic priorities.
• We own and lead the quarterly planning and prioritisation process.
• We maintain a balanced, sustainable delivery pipeline.
• We ensure effective governance of programmes and projects, including alignment to strategy, financial and resource assurance, and benefits realisation.
• We intervene where delivery risks arise or business case benefits cannot be met.
• We support the targeted 80/20 planned versus reactive demand model.
• We work closely with operational delivery leaders and senior stakeholders across the directorate.
• We identify opportunities for enterprise-wide technology change and provide leadership for the delivery of those change initiatives.
• We drive continuous improvement in portfolio, service and capacity management.
• We keep abreast of industry best practice, set policy and standards, and embed efficient ways of working.
• We provide direction on the use of appropriate tools, methodologies and justified new investments.
• We provide strong people and financial leadership.
• We manage and develop our EPM team to deliver portfolio operations and business process improvement.
• We own team budgets, forecasts and cost management to ensure effective and transparent use of resources.

Technologies:

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We are National Highways, managing and improving Englands motorways and major A roads to help our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, guided by our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership. Our Digital Services Directorate is reshaping how we operate by delivering digital, data and technology services across the organisation in a modern and efficient way. This role can be based from any of our UK offices, although travel to other offices for team meetings will be required. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

last updated 33 week of 2026