Description
GSK is looking for a Portfolio Manager for Reliability Engineering & Operations and the Automation Acceleration Hub. The role involves running portfolio management for both domains, aggregating and managing domain demand, sequencing delivery against strategy and capacity, consolidating delivery, cost and roadmap information, and giving domain leadership a clear view of what is being delivered and when.
Key Responsibilities:
- Run portfolio management for Reliability Engineering & Operations and the Automation Acceleration Hub, covering demand, prioritisation, planning and reporting across both domains.
- Aggregate and manage domain demand, structuring it against the central prioritisation criteria of value, risk, capacity, strategic fit and OKR alignment.
- Sequence delivery against strategy, capacity and dependencies, giving domain leadership a clear view of what is being delivered and when.
- Feed the domain portfolio into the enterprise view maintained by the Investment & Portfolio Manager, applying central standards so the data is comparable across domains.
- Consolidate delivery, cost and roadmap information for both domains, working with the domain Tech Finance Manager on the cost picture.
- Coordinate the domain planning cycle to the enterprise timetable, preparing materials and ensuring leaders have what they need to prioritise.
- Facilitate domain portfolio governance, with prioritisation decisions taken by domain and platform leadership.
- Manage cross domain dependencies, resolving what can be resolved locally and escalating what cannot.
- Provide portfolio reporting, forecasting and transparency to domain leadership and into the enterprise portfolio, steering with flow metrics and OKR progress.
- Track benefits and value realisation for domain initiatives, applying the central value framework and supporting the named benefit owners in the domains.
- Ensure operational initiatives as well as change projects remain visible and tracked, given the operational weight carried by Reliability Engineering & Operations.
- Use AI tooling to accelerate portfolio analysis, forecasting and reporting.
Professional Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Information Technology, Project/Programme Management, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Professional certifications desirable (e.g., Portfolio or Programme Management, Lean Portfolio Management, Agile frameworks, ITIL or service management).
Area of Specialisation:
- Domain portfolio management, demand and dependency management, planning and reporting.
- Portfolio practice in an operational and reliability environment, covering run and change work together.
Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience Required:
- Overall 15 years typically 6-8 years in portfolio management, programme or project leadership, or planning roles within technology or digital functions.
- Experience running demand management, prioritisation and planning cycles for a domain or business unit.
- Experience consolidating delivery, cost and roadmap information into a single reliable portfolio view.
- Experience managing dependencies across teams and escalating what cannot be resolved locally.
- Experience working to central portfolio standards while operating inside a domain.
- Experience of portfolio practice in an operational environment where run work and change work compete for the same capacity.
- Familiarity with portfolio tooling, flow metrics and AI enabled analytics applied to forecasting and reporting.
Skills/Background:
- Strong analytical skills, able to structure and compare demand, cost and capacity information across two domains.
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills, able to run planning and governance sessions with senior stakeholders.
- Well organised, able to run concurrent planning cycles to both a domain and an enterprise timetable.
- Ability to challenge incomplete inputs constructively and without formal authority.
- Understanding of operational delivery, so that run work is represented properly alongside change.