M Group Energy
Head of Portfolio
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About the Role
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where Will You Be Working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering, and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build, and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.
This role will be working on our National Grid contracts, across the UK.
What Will You Be Doing?
As the Head of Portfolio, you’ll be responsible for leading the strategic planning, governance, and delivery oversight of a portfolio of complex Overhead Lines projects and programmes. You’ll ensure seamless alignment across all initiatives, achieving corporate objectives and fulfilling customer commitments. Are you ready to drive consistency, efficiency, high standards, and robust risk management throughout the portfolio?
Portfolio Strategy & Planning
- Develop and maintain a portfolio strategy aligned with business objectives, ensuring both cross-regional and cross-functional communication and collaboration is maintained.
- Prioritise projects and programmes based on strategic value, risk, resource availability, and security.
- Ensure any portfolio decisions support both long-term commercial and reputational value of the wider business.
Governance & Assurance
- Establish and maintain robust governance structures for portfolio management.
- Monitor compliance with internal standards, regulatory obligations, and industry best practices.
- Provide assurance to senior leadership and stakeholders on portfolio performance and risk exposure.
- Ensure governance and assurance is delivered through robust procedures and reports consistent across the portfolio.
Commercial Management
- Oversee portfolio-level budgeting, forecasting, and financial performance. Monitoring cost performance and implement corrective actions when needed.
- Assist in defining the commercial strategies for procurement across the portfolio and assist in supplier negotiations for major contracts or frameworks.
- Oversee change management processes for scope, cost, and schedule variations.
- Ensure cost efficiency and value delivery across all projects and programmes.
- Work with commercial teams to ensure effective channels of communication are in place.
- Ensure robust commercial governance across all projects.
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Risk & Issue Management
- Identify and manage portfolio-level risks, dependencies, and constraints.
- Implement mitigation strategies to minimise impact on delivery and performance.
- Ensure portfolio level risks are communicated to the wider business.
- Ensure commercial position is protected and change management procedures are in place.
- Monitor supplier performance against contractual commitments.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the primary interface for portfolio-related matters with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and industry bodies.
- Communicate portfolio performance to senior leadership, through the presentation of executive dashboards summarising key metrics such as (but not limited to) delivery performance, safety, commercial outcomes, and risk.
- Keep internal stakeholders updated (Design, Procurement, Operations etc) on any significant changes in the portfolio.
Leadership
- Lead, develop, and mentor a team of high performing Project Managers, building capacity and resilience where required.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across all projects and programmes.
- Drive cultural and operational change to embed best practices in governance, risk management, and change management.
- Instil safe behaviour through your actions, championing a strong safety-first culture across all projects and programmes within the portfolio.
- Support and stand in for members of the Senior Management Team as required.
- Encourage innovative thinking and adoption of new technologies, methodologies, and delivery models.
Digital & Innovation
- Drive adoption of digital tools and data analytics for portfolio optimisation.
- Support on innovation in forecasting, scenario planning, and delivery methodologies.
You’ll live our values, setting the standard for M Group and play a key role in bringing our values to life!
What You’ll Bring
- Degree educated with a thorough understanding of the Transmission Power industry, including key clients, regulatory bodies, and industry standards.
- Experienced in managing and delivering complex projects, including managing scope changes, budgets, risk, and timelines, and possesses strong problem-solving skills.
- Performance-oriented leadership - ability to lead and supervise the team, setting goals and expectations, providing feedback, support and managing performance.
- Confident negotiator & influencer - comfortable operating at a senior level, negotiating with and influencing key stakeholders both internal & external.
- Hard-working & flexible attitude.
- Commercial acumen - strong focus on analysing and implementing best practices to support M Group’s strategic objectives. Commitment to developing a high-performance culture.
- Full UK driving license & willingness to travel.
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What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers:
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities, and the planet.
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations.
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life.
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice, or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training, and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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