Portfolio Planning and Scheduling Manager

Portfolio Planning and Scheduling Manager

Salary : £39,390 (National Framework) or £44,792 per annum (London Framework - if you are London office-based or home-based and live within the boundary of the M25) - There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home.
Hours : Full time, 37 hours per week or compressed hours / job share will also be considered.
Contract : Permanent
Location : Home-based with regular meetings in London, Newcastle or Leeds offices
Closing date : Thursday 12th September 2024 at 11.59pm

About Us

We're the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we work to improve health and adult social care in England.

Through the dedication of our expert team, we monitor health and social care services to provide England with a safe and compassionate care system, recognising when services perform well as well as encouraging improvements and taking action over poorer care, where necessary.

One of our main commitments is to become a truly inclusive organisation and to role model a diverse and representative culture. To do so, we work with a variety of networks, including the Disability Equality Network, Race Equality Network and LGBT+ Equality Network.

We are now looking for a Portfolio Planning and Scheduling Manager to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37 hours per week.

The Benefits

- 27 days' annual leave, rising with service to 32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays
- NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution
- Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day
- Discounts to supermarkets, high street stores, electronics and fleet cars
- Discounted gym vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!
- Equipment for homeworking

Why this could be a great role for you

This is a fantastic opportunity for a PRINCE2 qualified project manager with expertise in business change and digital transformation projects or programmes to step into a vital role with our dedicated team.

Your expertise will directly contribute to the successful delivery of the CQC's strategic goals, helping to improve the quality of care for communities across England.

What's more, we value our people and offer a supportive, flexible working environment with excellent benefits and opportunities for personal and professional growth, and you'll be empowered to bring your whole self to work and make a tangible difference every day.

Ready to take the lead in driving impactful change and enhancing the standards of health and social care across England? Read on and apply today!

What you will bring...

To be considered as our Portfolio Planning and Scheduling Manager, you will need:

- Experience of delivering complex strategic projects and/or programmes that contain a significant element of business change and digital transformation
- Experience of managing resources and planning activities in complex projects and programmes
- Experience of improving performance by coaching individuals to work differently and through embedding new practices and standards
- Experience of learning from and embracing new technologies
- Experience of conflict resolution and ability to proactively identify and implement solutions
- Strong negotiation and stakeholder management experience
- Good knowledge of a wide range of programme/project methodologies and demonstrable experience of applying them appropriately in different contexts
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to work in a matrix environment, deliver through others and operate effectively at all levels
- To hold a P3O Practitioner qualification
- To hold a PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification
- To hold a Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner qualification

What you'll be doing

As our Portfolio Planning and Scheduling Manager, you will play a critical role in developing and overseeing the portfolio plans and resource strategies within the organisation.

Joining a small, high performing team of change professionals, you'll drive priorities and standards of programme and project delivery across the organisation, delivering all types of change in a recently transformed digital service-based environment.

You'll lead on developing and tracking the organisation's portfolio plans and five-year roadmap, collaborating with the Portfolio Lead and Benefits Manager to profile investments based on agreed priorities and sequences.

Additionally, you will:

- Support staff development
- Plan and chair structured resource and planning reviews
- Act as our subject matter expert for resource and planning standards, tools and templates
- Define metrics that underpin portfolio resource and planning performance
- Ensure standards of planning and resource management are applied consistently well
- Develop and maintain product and process documentation

If you require any support or assistance with the recruitment process, please get in touch with our team or include a note in your application.

We know diverse teams allow for a more creative and productive environment and therefore encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender/sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability, ethnicity or sexual orientation.

So, if you'd like to join us as our Portfolio Planning and Scheduling Manager, please apply via the button shown.

Other organisations may call this role PMO Manager, Project Manager, Project Operations Manager, Project Planning Manager, Resource Planning Manager, Portfolio Manager, Programme Scheduler, or Change Portfolio Manager.