Portfolio Planning and Scheduling Manager

You will join a small, high performing team of change professionals, working across the organisation to drive priorities and standards of programme and project delivery. You will work closely with a professional community across the organisation delivering all types of change in a recently transformed digital service-based environment.
As a geographically dispersed organisation, we work remotely day to day, but recognising the value and importance of team collaboration and face-to-face contact, you would be expected to travel to one our office locations at least twice per-month.
In this role you would lead on developing and tracking the organisation’s portfolio plans and five-year roadmap, working with the Portfolio Lead and benefits manager to profile investments based on agreed priority and sequence. You will understand and track dependency at the portfolio level. Linked to this, you will also develop a resource strategy to ensure the availability of the right skills and capabilities when needed to deliver the plan. You will work closely with our people and commercial teams to plan for and source the right people at the right time. You will also work with PMO colleagues across our programmes to ensure standards of planning and resource management are applied consistently well.
In the role you would lead on developing and overseeing the effective use of best practice standards for programme and project planning and scheduling. Specifically, you will be the organisations subject matter expert on planning and scheduling, ensuring that all our change initiatives are subject to planning controls in line with the standard that you will own and develop. Working at the portfolio level you will be responsible for tracking and managing portfolio milestones and dependencies.
You will also drive resource profiling based on programme and project plans and work with colleagues on strategies and systems to ensure the timely availability of the right people and capabilities when needed.

When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work what comes to mind? For 3000+ people at the CQC we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the lives of those most in need in our communities. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. We are looking for people who are caring, demonstrate integrity and work well as part of a team to join with us and share in this sense of achievement. If you would like to help us, make a positive impact to health and social care within England, then read on., Experience of delivering complex strategic projects and/or programmes that contain a significant element of business change and digital transformation.
Experience of managing resources and planning activities in complex projects and programmes
Good knowledge of a wide range of programme/project methodologies and demonstrable experience of applying them appropriately in different contexts (e.g., PRINCE 2, AGILE).
Experience of improving performance by coaching individuals to work differently and through embedding new practices and standards., + P3O Practitioner
+ PRINCE2 Practitioner
+ Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner

What we can offer you...
Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day. We also understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also be able to access discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus we also have an internal reward scheme which could see you earn yourself a voucher or two! All of our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.
We want to support you to succeed and be your absolute best, with opportunities for training and development along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.
We want to make working for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support a variety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.
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