WRK digital
Portfolio Delivery Partner
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Portfolio Delivery Partner
3 days per week onsite in Worcester
£96,567.41 rising to £101,151.99 on achieving proficient level after 1 year
About WRK Digital and Sanctuary
WRK digital is exclusively partnered with Sanctuary as they go through a huge & exciting digital transformation. Sanctuary is the UK’s largest Housing Association, providing 125,000 homes. They pride themselves on providing sustainable communities that provide a good quality and a safe place where individual potentials can be reached regardless of background and circumstances.
Sanctuary holds people at the heart of everything they do, making this an incredibly rewarding place to work.
They currently have a large scale technology transformation happening across the organisation both internally and externally!
Role Introduction
This is a great opportunity to join the bright minds of Sanctuary as they create meaningful change within technology.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end delivery performance of a defined Technology portfolio for one or more designated Directorates ensuring all initiatives, current and emerging, are aligned to Group strategy, agreed outcomes and investment priorities.
- Set delivery and assurance expectations across the designated Directorate portfolios, holding Programme Managers and Project Managers to account for outcomes, and intervening decisively where delivery performance, value or risk profile is unacceptable.
- Provide leadership, coaching and direction to programme and project managers, embedding disciplined demand management, strong delivery practices and consistent ways of working to build a high-performing, inclusive and empowered team that works with ambition, pace and integrity.
- Act as a senior escalation point for portfolio demand and delivery issues by building enduring and mutually respectful relationships, engaging Directors, Sponsors and senior stakeholders to resolve conflicts, agree priorities and confirm direction.
- Own portfolio-level risk, dependency and issue management, ensuring governance forums have clear, timely information to support informed decision-making across both demand and delivery.
- Lead demand management for designated Directorates working with business leaders to identify, shape and scope future delivery initiatives, progressing demand through the pipeline from concept to approved delivery with pace.
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Experience Listed
- Comprehensive and extensive experience of successfully managing the delivery of complex portfolios of projects and programmes including hands-on delivery of large scale Technology projects.
- Demonstrated experience influencing and advising Director level stakeholders with advanced leadership, negotiation and decision-making capability.
- Proven track record of demonstrating commercial acumen, achieving results including ability to meet changing business needs for Technology support and provision of scalable systems.
- Substantial experience of producing compelling updates including making recommendations for changes needed to ensure delivery performance.
- Advanced leadership skills managing both direct and matrix teams, building high performing inclusive and collaborative team cultures.
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About Sanctuary
At Sanctuary, there is a low turnover rate of colleagues. This is because the team are truly looked after well. There is an active training budget available, meaning continual upskilling is of high importance to Sanctuary.
Inclusion is one of their core values. Their goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where their people thrive and meet their customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. They know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. They encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. They will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to their Disability Confident employer status.
For further information about this exciting opportunity at Sanctuary, please contact Gareths@wrkdigital.co.uk to find out more.
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