Rodeo
Get started

Frazer-Nash Consultancy

Digital & AI Portfolio Manager

Greater Middlesbrough and Stockton Area
£59k – £69k/yr
Posted about 24 hours ago
Sign up to applySee more jobs like this
Get notified of more jobs like this · No spam, ever

How your CV stacks up

1Upload CV
2Analyse CV
3Improve CV

Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role

?%

Digital & AI Portfolio Manager

Digital & AI Portfolio Manager

Salary: £59,000 - £69,000

Location: Any Frazer-Nash office location with flexible hybrid working between office, client sites and home.

Closing date: 16th September 2026

At Frazer-Nash, we empower endeavour for great results. Our Digital & AI team helps clients and the wider business deliver sustainable progress through digital innovation, data-driven decision making, automation and artificial intelligence. We are looking for an experienced Digital & AI Portfolio Manager to play a key role in shaping and governing our integrated Digital & AI portfolio in a complex, regulated and assurance-led environment.

This is a senior position responsible for ensuring Digital products, Data MI initiatives, Automation and AI programmes are prioritised, sequenced and governed effectively to deliver value and support strategic business objectives. You will provide evidence-led advice to senior stakeholders, helping them make informed decisions around investment, risk, dependencies, capacity and benefits realisation.

Working across a diverse portfolio of Digital & AI initiatives, you will shape business priorities, oversee governance excellence and provide leadership for portfolio management practices across the function. This is an exciting opportunity to guide the future direction of Digital & AI delivery within Frazer-Nash and help realise the value of strategic technology investments.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have a strong portfolio, programme or business change leadership background, with experience that should include several of the following:

  • Managing and governing complex digital, technology, data, automation or AI portfolios.
  • Managing portfolio demand, prioritisation, sequencing and investment decisions.
  • Developing value cases, benefits realisation frameworks and performance reporting.
  • Managing capacity, dependencies, risks and competing priorities across multiple initiatives.
  • Producing decision-ready governance packs and recommendations for senior leadership teams.
  • Working closely with product owners, delivery teams, technical leads and business stakeholders to ensure good outcomes.
  • Providing guidance and direction where business cases, delivery readiness or benefits assumptions require improvement.
  • Supporting portfolio-level planning, governance and continuous improvement activities.
  • Helping to deliver transparency, accountability and value-focused decision making across a portfolio.
  • Building and embedding effective portfolio management practices, frameworks and ways of working.

Reasons to use Rodeo

I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?

Honest answer — it depends on where you want to end up. A lot of top grad schemes (Big 4, civil service, banking) don’t need a masters. Let’s look at the ones you’d be competitive for now, and we can decide if a masters actually adds anything.

Also worth knowing: most autumn 2026 applications are open now. Timing matters more than you think.

Start with a chat, not a search bar

Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.

P

Graduate Consultant — 2026 Scheme

PwC·London, UK
£35,000/yr

Why you're a good match

Strong

Your economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.

See breakdown
Save jobNot relevant
View details

It searches the market for you

Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.

Why you're a good match

You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.

See breakdown
Strong

Experience fit

Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.

See breakdown
Strong

Only hits

No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.

Essential Requirements

  • Significant experience in portfolio or programme leadership within digital, technology, data, automation, AI or business change environments.
  • Demonstrated experience managing integrated portfolios, including demand intake, prioritisation, sequencing, capacity management and dependency management.
  • Demonstrated experience developing value cases, benefits tracking approaches and delivery confidence reporting.
  • Experience preparing governance materials and presenting recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Good analytical skills with the ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities and complex dependencies.
  • Experience operating within agile, product, programme and governance delivery environments.
  • Solid communication, reporting and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to engage senior stakeholders constructively using evidence, insight and clear recommendations.
  • Experience developing portfolio management capability, governance routines and best practice.
  • Strategic mindset with a clear focus on value, outcomes, risk management and delivery confidence.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills.

Get help with your application

Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.

Get help applying for this job

Desirable Requirements

  • Experience working within regulated or assurance-led environments.
  • Experience managing Digital, Data, AI or enterprise transformation portfolios.
  • Knowledge of portfolio management methodologies, frameworks and governance models.
  • Experience tracking and reporting benefits realisation at portfolio level.
  • Experience supporting investment planning and business case development.
  • Understanding of Digital, Data, Automation and AI delivery lifecycles.
  • Experience developing portfolio dashboards, reporting frameworks and decision-support tools.
  • Exposure to risk, security and assurance processes within complex organisations.
  • Professional qualifications in portfolio, programme or project management.
  • Experience coaching and mentoring colleagues on portfolio management principles and best practice.

Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

Benefits

We provide our people with a comprehensive benefits package that comprises:

  • Happy To Talk Flexible Working
  • Competitive salary
  • 25 days' holiday entitlement
  • Holiday purchase scheme
  • Company pension scheme
  • Targeted professional development
  • Life Assurance
  • Private healthcare membership
  • Bonus scheme linked into company performance
  • Paid membership fees to a professional institution
  • Support in attaining professional membership
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Share purchase scheme
  • Season rail ticket loan
Trusted by 25,000+ job seekers

“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”

Jessica, London

Get help applying for this job

Skills

Portfolio Management
Programme Leadership
AI Governance
Demand Management
Benefits Realisation
Capacity Planning
Stakeholder Management
Value Case Development
Risk Management
Agile Methodology
Digital Transformation
Data MI
Automation
Strategic Planning
Governance Frameworks
Business Change

Location

United Kingdom

Sign up to applySee more jobs like this