What you’ll bring

Essential criteria:

• Strong experience in portfolio management with experience in Programme and project management, business planning, transformation or consulting within a large or complex organisation.
• A track record of working across multiple teams, workstreams or business areas at the same time, identifying dependencies, risks and connections between them that are not immediately obvious.
• Excellent analytical skills, with experience of interrogating detailed and incomplete data from more than one source.
• Strong communication with senior audiences, with experience of producing reporting, presentations or written recommendations for stakeholders at Head of, Director or equivalent level, and turning complex information into a clear and concise narrative.
• A relationship builder, with experience of establishing trust across different teams and of influencing or constructively challenging stakeholders more senior than your own role without direct authority.
• Experience of facilitating meetings, governance forums, planning sessions or workshops to drive alignment and informed decision making.
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity, with experience of working where priorities compete or direction is unclear, taking the initiative to create clarity and make progress, alongside a realistic understanding of what delivery involves in practice.
• Commercially aware, understanding how change activity contributes to business performance and value, with experience of improving processes, reporting or ways of working, including openness to using AI to work more efficiently.

Desirable skills and experience:

• A degree, professional qualification (for example CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA or a recognised project or portfolio management qualification) or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience of enterprise or multi-portfolio planning, roadmap consolidation or investment planning cycles.
• Experience of using AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot to support analysis, reporting or ways of working.
• Experience of value, benefits or return on investment assessment.
• Experience of working in Agile, SAFe or hybrid delivery environments.
• Experience of working within, or alongside, technology delivery or platform teams.
• Experience of using roadmap, planning or portfolio management tools to support reporting and decision making.
• Experience of working in a regulated environment, or alongside legal, risk or compliance teams.

Benefits and perks

There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to life at Sky: the perks. Here’s a taster:

• Free Sky TV package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
• Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
• Private healthcare with mental health support
• Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
• Discounts on Sky products, including Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass and Sky Protect
• Sharesave and Tech schemes
• A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work

We've adopted a hybrid working approach to give more flexibility on where and how we work. The hybrid working expectations for this role are 2 days in the office per week.

Your office base

Livingston

Our Livingston office at Kirkton Campus is home to our first and biggest Contact Centre. It’s also home to our Sky Up Academy, placing young people at centre stage as media creators. With an on-site restaurant, gym and beauty salon, you can make your routine work for you.

The nearest train station is Livingston North. A Sky shuttle bus runs between the station and campus every 20 minutes throughout the day. Sky Watermark, our central site for Livingston, is also just a short shuttle bus away.

Osterley

Our Sky Group HQ. Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and workspaces, there’s plenty of space to see your big ideas come to life. Here you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants and cafes. You can re-energise at our gym, catch the latest films at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Our Osterley Campus is just a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station, or you can get one of our free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations. Plus, there’s free onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

Who we are

We’re Sky, a leading media and entertainment company who connect millions with entertainment, sports, news and arts through innovative products and services. Working with us means you’ll be bringing the joy of a better experience to more people, every day. All so we can do better and deliver better for our customers, colleagues and society.

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We're a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need as early as you can.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

To be eligible for this role you are required to have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Please be aware Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media.