Portfolio Manager

Do you thrive on delivering complex projects and empowering teams?

Uniserve, the UK's largest and fastest-growing privately-owned logistics and global trade management provider, is seeking a talented Portfolio Manager to join our dynamic IT team.

Everyday Uniserve delivers a seamless blend of ocean freight, air freight and road freight services with intelligent warehousing, distribution, and supply chain solutions.

The Group IT Director is setting-out his strategy for IT across the group of companies, establishing a Strategic Roadmap and an organisational structure that will meet the challenges head-on.

As a result, a new team is being formed to deliver best in class digital transformation, data services, technology and support to the international business. We are looking for a Project and Programmes Manager to support our team to deliver a diverse set of projects to the Uniserve Group.

Ultimately, you’ll help us launch & improve our products and services that deliver against our company’s vision.

• Use Monday.com and DevOps tooling to manage Projects from Programme Level down to Developer Deliverable
• Contribute towards refinement sessions, aiming to resolve all uncertainties to ensure 'Readiness’
• Contribute towards continual improvement of Group IT capability
• Work with key colleague to ensure technical documentation up to date
• Mentor and develop Business Analysts
• Demonstrate return on investment, with reportability on completed projects
• Contribute towards Management Reporting
• You’ll be a naturally inquisitive person - entrepreneurial, driven, solution focussed and not scared to try new things or ask why.
• You’ll be a people person, not scared to have difficult conversations and want to work with various people.
• You will have a background in Change Management and be aware of how to take people on a journey through change
• There’s a strong chance you will be an agilest, possibly with qualifications in a scaled framework to back it up (SAFe, LeSS, etc…), and will be mindful how to work with Scrum Masters to realise benefits of Agile ways of working
• You will have awareness of governance and security principles, and will know when to engage the appropriate team to ensure compliance on projects

What you will bring

• Rich experience in diverse programme management
• Experience working in agile at a programme level with cross-functional teams
• Experience delivering projects or programmes covering the full software development lifecycle
• Experience leading customer facing programmes and engaging with external stakeholders
• Solution-focused with a problem solving "can do" attitude to work.
• Team spirit.

Desirable, but not essential

• Understanding of Freight, Supply Chain or Logistics industry.
• Awareness and experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, etc...
• Familiar with Azure DevOps or Monday.com

Join Uniserve and play a key role in shaping the future of our IT landscape. Apply today!

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package.