Portfolio Development Manager

Job Description

What Ill Be Doing Your Accountabilities You will be the pivot between the Product Manager and the teams across BT who deliver. Your role will empower the Product Manager to focus on the What while you lead all the development teams on the How of building better products for our business. Provide overarching change leadership against roadmap planning to ensure early optimisation of value through incremental feature build which drives early customer and user feedback to inform and confirm desirablity, feasibility and viability. Planning and delivering portfolio developments through agile methodologies customer-centric mindsets and soe waterfall delivery, driving solutions which put the customer at the heart of every decision. Delivery of Value as measured by the Portfolio goals. Flow time from Idea to Value realisation. Business improvement using optimised and/or Agile processes to provide: Effective Feedback Loops enabling early and often iterations of products. to enhance feedback to improve the offering. Optimise Flow identifying and removing impediments that cause delay or erode value in the Idea to Deploy cycle. Maximise Value ensuring that what is launched is continuously iterated to maximise value for customers.Skills Required Project management of the development and launch of new portfolio developments in a Telco environment and across all launch phases: justify, define, develop, trial and launch. Contributed to the creation of portfolio development roadmaps for specific portfolio areas with Capability Leads and cross functional teams. To include initial high level assessments of timescales and costs. Leading, managing and inspiring multifunctional virtual teams in the context of direction setting and motivation of the team to ensure better, faster, cheaper portfolio developments driving competitiveness and growth and putting the customer first. At least 2 years recent and strong end-to-end Programme/Project Management experience A Project Management/Service Management qualification such as Prince, ITIL, PMP, Agile or equivalent. Preferred Customer facing experience in a Technology and service business, where you have had to make commitments to Enterprise or multinational customers. Preferred Working with security technologies and vendors.About UsBT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet.Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.We value diversity and celebrate difference. As Philip Jansen, our CEO, says We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. Its fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, youll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you wont be alone: well be there with help and support, learning and development.This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:Although these roles are listed as full-time, if youre a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.DONT MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. Were committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team,

Keyskills :
Project managementPortfolio developmentAgile methodologiesPrinceITILPMPAgileCustomercentric mindsetEndtoend ProgrammeProject ManagementCustomer facing experienceWorking with security technologies