Project Portfolio Manager
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 21 March 2026
LOCATION
Reading
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Management
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion
SKILLS
Project Portfolio Management
Strategic Planning
KPI Implementation
Financial Rigor
Cross-functional Leadership
Stakeholder Management
Business Reviews
Operational Excellence
FULL DESCRIPTION
Project Portfolio Manager
Our international client is seeking a Project Portfolio Manager to help align UK, Germany and Italy's group priorities. This is not a just a PMO role, but about turning strategy into EBITDA growth. You will be reporting directly to the CEO and act as a strategic operational partner to the CEO and CFO. This is a pivotal role at the centre of the organisation, ensuring accountability, alignment and delivery in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment. This is a new role within the business, and they have 1000 + staff within the group. We are seeking a candidate with experience of working with private equity backed companies for this role.
Your role:
- Translate strategic initiatives into clear, executable workstreams
- Build and mobilise cross-functional taskforces
- Drive cost optimisation, pricing and growth programmes
- Implement robust KPI and performance frameworks
- Lead monthly business reviews and Board reporting
- Align country leadership teams to group priorities
- Deliver high-impact transformation projects
What our client is looking for:
- 8+ years' experience in strategy, consulting, private Equity portfolio operations, programme leadership or operational roles
- A proven track record of delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives
- Experience operating across European markets (preferred)
- Strong commercial acumen and financial rigour
- High resilience and comfort operating at pace
- Confident influencing senior stakeholders without formal authority.
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