Portfolio Business Partner (3723) Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
Location: Cambridge, UK
Salary: £54,700 - £66,800
Contract: Permanent
Are you a strategic thinker who can support business leaders to find creative solutions? Are you clear thinking and pragmatic? Do you enjoy communicating with colleagues from all areas of an organisation? Can you develop team capability and create a team environment that motivates and unites people?
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a driven, proactive and innovative individual to take on the role of Portfolio Business Partner in our busy Portfolio Office, ensuring the alignment between delivery and the strategic objectives of the business.
As Portfolio Business Partner, you will work across a range of exciting, transformational projects and programmes and, support the Senior Portfolio Business Partner in shaping and delivering the strategic portfolio. You will also play a key part in ensuring the Executive teams are well briefed with accurate reports and provide insights to allow them to make informed decisions.
You may also have line-management and matrix-management responsibilities for members of the Portfolio Office, including senior project and programme managers who will be available to work on the projects within the portfolio.
We are a modern organisation with a proud legacy and a global reputation for excellence. As one of the oldest established media organisations in the world we have been on a digital transformation journey and now are looking for people who can help us move beyond good to world-leading in the digital era.
We offer continuous learning opportunities including mentoring, coaching, communities of practice and the resources you need to grow your career in whichever direction you choose. Whether you want to increase your expertise or broaden your skills and career experience, we will support you.
We will consider applications for full or part-time working.
About You
You will have:
- Excellent communication, influencing, presentation and negotiating skills, particularly with senior stakeholders
- Experience with strategic planning frameworks including their definition, operation and ongoing management
- Experience of facilitating and leading stakeholder meetings to reach consensus
- Motivating teams to drive progress forward
- Portfolio planning and management experience
- A background delivering technology and business change projects/programmes
- Experience managing large programme budgets and complex schedules
- Comprehensive understanding and application of sound governance, programme and project delivery principles to define and deliver business change.
- Strong understanding of both waterfall and agile methodologies
- Recruitment, line management, coaching/mentoring and performance management experience
- Experience of the publishing industry is desirable, but not essential.
We value the following personal qualities:
- Stakeholder management. Can you skilfully manage your portfolio stakeholders?
- Can you translate across business and technical environments, communicating effectively at all levels of the organisation?
- Will you go the extra mile to support your stakeholders across English, to help them create and deliver their projects and programmes to maximise benefits.
- Can you motivate project and programme managers to successfully deliver business outcomes?
You will also be expected to be an advocate and role model for our values.
The closing date for application is 25th August and interviews will take place as soon as possible.
Why Cambridge University Press & Assessment?
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe that diversity of thought, background, and approach create better outcomes. More importantly, fostering an inclusive culture is the right thing to do, and it's part of how we achieve our purpose: to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Ensuring that anyone, no matter who they are, feels they belong here is an essential part of who we are and the contribution we make to society, and to our planet.
To enable an environment which our people can thrive in, our customers benefit from, and where work complements life, we empower everyone to manage their time and capacity, and to prioritise their wellbeing. That's why from day one everyone at Cambridge University Press & Assessment can discuss flexible working options to find the best solution for them and their role.
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