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Head of Portfolio Management

NatWest Group

Head of Portfolio Management

Salary Not Specified

NatWest Group, St James, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 18 Sep | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 8f1992200a2345539789d73bc87de93b

Full Job Description

  • This is a high-profile role across the Wealth business, leading on ExCo level reporting of the Change the Bank (CTB) portfolio of work

  • You will be an innovator, continually looking for ways to enhance the transparency, quality and outcomes associated with our portfolio

  • Join a team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development


    • What you'll do

    In this role, you'll be supporting the leadership team to plan ahead and deliver our business strategy in line with our long-term goals. You'll manage the Wealth Chief Digital Information Office PMO team, ensuring that Idea to Value standards are fully embedded across our delivery teams, risks are well managed and Planview data is of the highest quality. You'll also be overseeing and implementing bank-wide, divisional and business activities, and engagement agendas such as pay, leadership team operating rhythms and the creation of papers and executive reporting.

    Your responsibilities will include:

  • Engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, including Senior Responsible Owners, technology domain leads, risk and controls to ensure that ExCo members of the Transformation Steering Committee are fully apprised of successes, risks and headwinds across the portfolio

  • Driving and implementing processes aligned to bank-wide policy and business frameworks, including Idea to Value

  • Making sure performance and business management activities are aligned to the broader bank-wide strategic agenda

  • Working in partnership with areas right across the bank in the planning and management of business support activities, projects and processes

  • People planning, including capability, engagement and communications

  • Reviewing relevant MI and providing analysis of data

  • Financial and headcount reporting, including the overview of monthly cost report checking, monthly forecasting, budget setting, and cost control initiatives

  • Planview reporting for CTB

  • Monitoring execution of Change Risk process for the CTB portfolio

  • Providing monthly reporting and insight for the Wealth portfolio, presenting at Wealth Transformation SteerCo and attend other key governance forums,such as portfolio review forums

    We're looking for someone with excellent experience of working in a leadership support or business management role. You'll additionally need a broad knowledge of the customer business and how it interacts with the rest of our business.


    • We'll also look to you to demonstrate:

  • Excellent experience of working on multiple business initiatives

  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to use information to develop creative solutions that bring tangible value

  • Strong problem-solving skills

  • Idea to Value and Planview knowledge and experience

  • Strong background in portfolio management, especially around governance and reporting

  • Experience of managing a PMO or portfolio team