Head of Strategic Portfolio Management

Salary: up to £80,000 dependant on experience.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

• Rental deposit loan scheme

• Season ticket loan

• EV car lease scheme (for roles that meet the salary criteria)

• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts

• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.

• Flexible working whenever possible

• Employee assistance programme

• Free parking at most Trust places

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We're looking for a Head of Strategic Portfolio Management to help turn ambition into collective action and lasting impact. As a senior organisation-wide leader you'll sit at the heart of strategy execution.

Working with Executive Directors, senior leaders and colleagues across the organisation, you'll establish Enterprise Portfolio Management as a core organisational capability. You'll create shared clarity around priorities, enabling better choices on investment and capacity, building the confidence to start, sustain, redirect or stop activity in pursuit of our strategic outcomes.

You'll bring deep technical portfolio and change leadership expertise, combined with the credibility to challenge constructively and connect strategy, people and delivery. You'll build a culture of enterprise thinking, shared accountability and evidence-led decision making.

Working closely with the Strategy & Governance Director, you'll lead the Strategic Portfolio Office providing visible, organisation-wide leadership for Enterprise Portfolio Management. You'll make portfolio thinking part of how we lead, strengthening the connection between strategy and execution, creating transparency around capacity and commitments, and enabling leaders to make clear, timely and sometimes difficult choices.

As a trusted adviser to senior leaders, you'll shape the portfolio methodology, governance and prioritisation approach and turn complex information into a compelling strategic story on outcomes, benefits, risk, dependencies, investment and organisational capacity. You'll facilitate high-quality conversations that move beyond reporting to support collective judgement, action and accountability.

A central part of the role is cultural change. You'll influence across organisational boundaries, coach leaders and Portfolio Leads and build the behaviours, confidence and capability needed for outcome-focused, matrix-based working. You'll champion shared impact and help colleagues see and experience portfolio management not as a control process, but as an agile enabler of better decisions, stronger collaboration and greater impact.

You'll lead and develop a high-performing Strategic Portfolio Office, setting a clear vision and creating an inclusive culture of curiosity, service, learning and continuous improvement. Working in close partnership with Strategy, Finance, Planning, Performance and Digital colleagues, you'll ensure portfolio management is integrated into the wider organisational planning and performance system and remains practical, proportionate and responsive to changing priorities.

You'll combine deep portfolio expertise with the judgement, influence and leadership to operate credibly at the most senior levels. Whatever your background, you'll be able to apply your experience in a complex, purpose-led organisation and bring people with you. Please outline how you meet the criteria below in your application.