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About the Role
The Director of Portfolio Management is accountable for driving delivery of the Future of Work (FoW) transformation across assigned portfolios in partnership with Group Functions and Local Business Units.
Acting as the strategic interface between the Group Transformation Office and Group/local FoW initiatives, the role ensures consistent governance, communication, and alignment on portfolio management frameworks, reporting standards, and delivery cadence.
The role provides end to end visibility of portfolio performance, including initiative health, risks, interdependencies, and outcomes, enabling data driven insights and trusted advice to Sponsors and Workstream Leads.
By coordinating SME support-particularly across GenAI and Agentic AI initiatives in collaboration with GIO-and leveraging best practices from across markets, the role mitigates delivery risk, resolves material issues, and steers portfolios toward measurable business impact and value realisation.
Roles & Responsibilities
Define Project Portfolio Scope, Benefits and Monitor Performance
- Define scope and articulate book of work based on business value creation in collaboration with Function sponsors and owners
- Facilitate quantification of benefits with function owners and finance to ensure optimal outcomes from book of work
- Assess portfolio readiness and viability by evaluating the people readiness in terms of capability and capacity needs, delivery timelines, investment levels, KPIs, and projected benefits prior to execution, ensuring portfolios are positioned for successful outcomes.
- Identify and manage crossfunctional dependencies and constraints, providing strategic steer to address structural challenges and optimise portfolio sequencing and delivery.
- Proactively identify potential risks as early as possible to provide recommendation on addressing potential challenges on portfolio performance by leveraging personal expertise and Group Office (GO) capabilities to remediate
- Provide objective challenge on KPI and benefits contribution, identifying potential adjustments, constructively challenging assumptions, and driving remedial actions with accountable owners.
- Monitor portfolio execution and value realisation, and lead deep dive where benefit/initiative outcomes fall short. Recommendation from deep dive with clear actions to close gap to be presented to senior stakeholders to get buy in
Communications & Stakeholder Alignment
- Craft clear and crisp key messages, develop excellent presentation packs for Group and LBU Senior Executives as well as external stakeholders, e.g. investors and analysts
- Lead and drive change management initiatives in collaboration with HR and Function owners to ensure awareness, fluency of AI in daily work activities and ideation of AI application opportunities
- Represent the Group Office in LBU governance forums, including LBU SteerCos and RCE meetings, driving alignment between Group and LBU stakeholders on RCE priorities, direction, and delivery expectations.
- Surface priority focus areas across strategic portfolios for Workstream Leads, KPI Owners, and LBU accountable executives, strengthening focus on KPI delivery and benefits performance.
- Collaborate and coordinate with various workstream owners to provide consolidated updates on Future of Work transformation progress across Group and LBUs, ensuring transparency, consistency, and clarity for senior stakeholders.
Minimum Job Requirement
- Undergraduate degree in Information Technology (IT) or related discipline
- Minimum 15 years experience in large scale IT transformation programme in a multinational environment across geography, technology transformation or IT consulting
- Proven experience in presenting and advising senior executives/C-suite on strategic topics
- Experience within the insurance and/or financial services industry is strongly preferred, particularly in the context of enterprise transformation programmes.
- Proven excellent verbal and written communication skills, with demonstrable experience in presentation to group senior executive stakeholders
- Self-starter with minimum guidance, and able to navigate in complex business environment
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills, enjoy details, with the ability to exercise sound judgment in complex, ambiguous, and fastmoving environments.
