Business Portfolio Manager

East Midlands (England), East of England, London (region), North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

About the Human Tissue Authority…

The Human Tissue Authority’s (HTA’s) primary goal is to protect public and professional confidence in the safe and ethical use of human tissue. The HTA is the national independent regulator for organisations that remove, store and use tissue for research, medical treatment, post-mortem examination, teaching and display in public. We also give approval for organ and bone marrow donations from living people. With the interests of the public and those we regulate at the centre of our work, we aim to maintain confidence by ensuring that human tissue is used safely and ethically, with proper consent.

The pace of innovation in cell, tissue and organ-based therapies, in life sciences research and the use of digital imaging and artificial intelligence in pathology have the potential to impact hugely on the way the sectors we regulate work and in turn how the HTA itself must operate

The HTA has an ambitious vision and strategy for the next three years centred on achieving greater sustainability, agility and resilience in our operations.

Why this could be a great role for you….

 A unique opportunity has become available for a Business Portfolio Manager to join our team. The Business Portfolio Manager plays a key part in supporting the HTA to achieve its vision by developing an effective, practical and transparent process to enable the management of all business activities the HTA undertakes.

Reporting to the Deputy Director Performance & Corporate Governance and with strong business management skills and experience in PMO management and reporting, the role holder will be responsible for creating the Business Plan and then ensuring that all activities on the Business Plan are delivered on time and to budget through Portfolio Management. 

The role holder will own HTA’s Portfolio and Project Management processes, tools and techniques and will work with directorates to ensure both Portfolio and Project Management processes and lifecycles are followed and documented.

The Business Portfolio Manager will be responsible for developing a process for the collation of activities across the organisation such as collating monthly portfolio reports, meeting with Project Managers and coordinating monthly portfolio meetings. They will also ensure that the Senior Management Team has full visibility of known and developing risk to the delivery and or budget of the Business Plan.

What you will bring…

You’ll be experienced in matrix management with a supportive and collegiate attitude and have the ability to ‘sell’ a process and idea to others.

We are looking for the postholder to have experience of creating Business Plans and working across boundaries to deliver business priorities in a Portfolio Management / PMO setting.

With strong analytical skills, you will be able to review large quantities of information from a variety of sources in a variety of forms and identify, categorise and prioritise key issues.

Excellent communication skills both written and oral and be confident engaging with and managing stakeholders effectively relationships is crucial to succeed in this role. 

Essential Criteria:

Experience of working across boundaries to deliver business priorities in a Portfolio Management / PMO setting
Experience of creating Business Plans
Knowledge and experience of using data intelligence. Strong analytical skills, able to review large quantities of information from a variety of sources in a variety of forms and identify, categorise and prioritise key issues
Strong written and oral communication skills, able to manage stakeholders deftly and effectively and to write clearly and persuasively in plain English
High level of self-awareness, able to appreciate impact on others, keen and able to learn from what has gone well and what has not
Able to work successfully independently and as part of a team

For an informal discussion or further information on the role, please contact John McDermott, Deputy Director for Performance & Corporate Governance at John.McDermott@hta.gov.uk

What we can offer you…

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (32.5 days, plus 8 Bank Holidays). We also offer membership of the NHS pension scheme. As this role is homebased we ensure our Homeworkers are also kitted out with everything they need to comfortably work from home.

Remote working option *Standard contracts available are homeworking (an average of 3 days in the office each month) or office-based (minimum of 1 day a week in the office).

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