PRS for Music
Portfolio Business Partner (8 month FTC)
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Overview
Music wouldn't exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We're here to represent them and make sure that they are paid for their work. After more than a century in the industry, we continue to innovate as a world-leading organisation.
The Role
The EPMO ensures that the vision and strategy produced by the PRS Board and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) is converted into change initiatives that enable delivery of corporate objectives and business outcomes, whilst highlighting strategic risks and opportunities to facilitate informed decision making.
The Portfolio Business Partner serves as the liaison between the EPMO and business units, ensuring alignment of change initiatives and business outcomes with organisational objectives.
The role holder will be responsible in enabling lean portfolio management by connecting business strategy with agile execution. They support effective planning, governance and performance tracking of Portfolio matters, working closely with stakeholders across assigned business units to understand business unit goals, optimise investment decisions and create value for our members, customers and colleagues.
Our Transformation team is responsible the delivery of our ambitious transformation portfolio. Our inclusive and customer-focused team places the PRS values at the heart of everything we do, fostering strong relationships and a high degree of trust with our stakeholders to ensure that we deliver change well.
Our transformation portfolio includes a wide range of initiatives involving systems, process and people change, focusing on ensuring that colleagues have the right information, tools, knowledge and support to work in new ways. This may involve identifying opportunities for improvement, developing new processes and procedures, implementing new technologies or systems, and providing training and support to ensure that all stakeholders are prepared to adapt to the changes.
The ethos of our inclusive and customer-focused team is one that prioritises respect, collaboration, empathy, flexibility and continuous improvement in order to deliver high quality change.
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Responsibilities
As our Portfolio Business Partner, some of your day to day duties will include…
- Partner with business leaders to identify, assess and prioritise initiatives and business outcomes that align with strategic themes and goals
- Ensure consistent application of lean portfolio management principles, frameworks, tools and best practices to support effective prioritisation and value creation
- Co-facilitate quarterly planning, OKR/KPI and roadmap alignment to measure outcomes, benefits and impact in partnership with the Senior Portfolio Business Partner
- Enable collaborative, cross-functional, informed decision-making through effective portfolio systems e.g. Kanban
- Provide insights & recommendations to Head of EPMO based on portfolio analysis
For a full list of duties, please email the recruitment team and request a copy of the job description.
About you
At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work. We believe that celebrating individuality promotes a culture of acceptance and openness. Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have:
- Demonstrable experience in change delivery, business partnering or relevant PMO related role
- Expert understanding of all technical and non-technical aspects of Portfolio management and delivery
- Demonstrably strong stakeholder management, facilitation and communication skills
- Experience working in matrix management environments
- Agile certifications such as SAFe, Portfolio / Programme Management qualifications desirable
- Background in scaled agile environment across platforms / products desirable
What’s in it for you?
Here are just a few things that set PRS for Music apart from the crowd:
- We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference
- We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity
- We are consciously inclusive and have eight Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact
- We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward
- We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity and paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
- We know time to rest and recharge is important which is why we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days
- Employees can work from anywhere in the world for up to eight weeks of the year
- Plus a whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, gym discounts, season ticket or bicycle loan.
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The Process
Our interview process for this role is simple:
- First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams.
- Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub.
- We use competency-based questions within our interviews. This allows you to provide examples of situations where you have had to demonstrate the required skills relevant to the role you are applying for. To assist your preparation for interview, research the STAR method to aid bringing your examples to life.
Location
We offer a hybrid working model, allowing employees to work from home up to three days a week.
To ensure the health and safety of all our employees, if you wish to work from home for more than 2.5 days per week, we will conduct a quick and easy remote-working assessment.
If you sound like you could be the right person for the job, apply now.
At PRS we are committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We have taken a holistic approach to ensure that no one feels excluded regardless of age, class, sexuality, gender, race, religion, or ability. We value the needs of everyone in our organisation and strive to build an environment where our employee’s contributions are recognised in order that everyone may thrive.
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