Location: UK - London, UK - Hatfield, UK - Manchester, UK - Birmingham | Job-ID: 212781 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Project Management

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You will take on responsibility for the successful delivery of the projects within your portfolio, acting as customer point of ownership/escalation, defining the portfolio standards and providing (matrix) leadership to the Project Managers (PMs) and Coordinators (PCs) working on the account. You will also be responsible for directly assuring small-medium projects.
As a Portfolio Manager you will have oversight of portfolio triage, presales and delivery, working closely with your customer(s) and the account team(s) to ensure the portfolio is aligned to customer strategy and delivered to agreed performance metrics.
In support of this, you are expected to understand and articulate to customers both what Computacenter sells and delivers and have a good working knowledge of the technologies/solutions.

Depending on the size of the account(s) within your Portfolio, you will either be responsible for:

• Multiple smaller customers
• All project delivery into a medium sized customer
• A subset of the delivery portfolio into one our large customers

Delivery of a successful portfolio will include:

• Understanding and influencing customer and CC account strategy
• Helping customers to select and prioritise initiatives to maximise Return on Investment (PMO dependent)
• Building a high performing and motivated portfolio delivery team
• Optimising the running of the portfolio (including resource, risk, issue and change management)
• Undertaking portfolio level governance and assurance (in collaboration with the account aligned Project Practice assurer)
• Optimising portfolio financial performance, including maintaining accurate forecasts
• Driving continuous improvement and innovation
• Building strong relationships across the customer and Computacenter ecosystem
• PMO consultative services e.g. development of business requirements, fixing challenged PMOs & maturity assessments.
• Alignment to PMO strategic services and contribution to ongoing development