# Technology Portfolio Planning Manager **Company**: Freshfields **Location**: Manchester **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: IT **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://freshfields.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FBD_101/job/Manchester/Technology-Portfolio-Planning-Manager_R-08761?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_4c71bee3-ad9 ## Description The Technology Portfolio Planning Manager is responsible for planning, forecasting, and resourcing of the Technology change portfolio. The role combines oversight of portfolio governance and resource management with accountability for stakeholder engagement and change enablement. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead the planning of the technology change portfolio roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. - Oversee Technology portfolio governance processes including reporting to ensure transparency and accountability. - Ensure consistent application of project lifecycle methodologies and governance standards across all Technology portfolio initiatives. - Champion the journey towards organisational agility by introducing efficient and effective Technology portfolio management practices. - Establish resource management as a core service offering within IT & Technology Delivery, embedding it into delivery and planning processes. - Develop and implement resource planning strategies that align resource allocation with portfolio demands and organisational goals. - Lead IT-wide resource capacity planning to ensure optimal utilisation across programmes, projects, and BAU activities. - Analyse resource demand, availability, and constraints to create effective allocation plans and identify optimisation opportunities. - Forecast resource supply and demand in collaboration with Delivery Managers and Technical Leads. - Resolve resource conflicts and escalations, and support contingency planning for high-risk scenarios. - Oversee the introduction, configuration, and continuous improvement of resource planning and time tracking tools. - Maintain accurate resource records and documentation to support planning and reporting. - Provide guidance to portfolio areas on skill requirements and resource acquisition strategies. - Hold overall accountability for the planning, execution, and effectiveness of change and communication activities across the Technology Delivery portfolio. - Oversee the development and delivery of communication strategies that support stakeholder engagement, transparency, and adoption of technology-driven change. - Ensure the Technology Change and Communication Manager has clear objectives and support to deliver impactful communication plans for IT initiatives. - Provide strategic direction for change enablement activities, including stakeholder impact assessments, readiness evaluations, and training coordination. - Monitor the effectiveness of communication channels and ensure they are aligned with portfolio priorities and audience needs. - Review and approve change management strategies that support the adoption of new systems, tools, and processes. - Ensure feedback loops are in place and used to refine communication and change approaches based on stakeholder input and project dynamics. - Oversee the creation and use of templates for standardised communications and post-implementation feedback processes. - Ensure dashboards and visual reporting tools are used to track communication effectiveness and change adoption metrics. - Identify and manage risks related to change and communication activities, escalating where necessary and ensuring mitigation plans are in place. - Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and development support to the Technology Resource Planning Analyst and Technology Portfolio Analyst and the Technology Change and Communications Manager. - Set clear objectives, conduct regular performance reviews, and support career development and progression. - Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture aligned with the values of the Technology Delivery function. - Act as a key liaison between Technology Delivery, Architecture, Product, and Business stakeholders for all matters related to portfolio and resource management. - Deliver clear, data-driven insights to support decision-making at IT Leadership and Executive levels. - Represent the Technology Delivery function in cross-functional planning forums and governance bodies. **Requirements:** - Proven experience in IT resource planning, capacity management or project coordination within an IT and/or agile delivery environment. - Strong project financial acumen and ability to analyse resource-related costs and budgets. - Experience working in a matrixed organisation with multiple concurrent projects. - Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data sets and translate them into actionable insights. - Proficiency in resource planning tools and Excel-based modelling. - Proficiency in time recording tools and analysing and reporting on forecast vs actuals data. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical teams. - Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies. ## Skills ### Required - resource planning - capacity management - project coordination - analytical skills - communication skills - stakeholder management - Agile - Waterfall ### Nice to have - enterprise-level IT transformation programmes - professional certification in resource management or project management - Azure Devops - MS Office Suite - PowerBI --- Source: [Apply at freshfields.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://freshfields.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FBD_101/job/Manchester/Technology-Portfolio-Planning-Manager_R-08761?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)