Project Manager Enterprise Systems IT Portfolio

Overview

In this role, you will act as the project management backbone for YouGov’s Enterprise Systems & IT Portfolio. You mobilise and govern change across two senior leadership portfolios, building business cases and plans, then transitioning into delivery. You will provide leadership with a single view of portfolio health and coordinate cross-functional delivery partners. The role combines governance, planning, and benefits tracking to ensure value is realised post-implementation. This is a chance to shape how critical platforms are planned and delivered in a fast-moving, globally connected environment.

Pay / Benefits

• best-in-class benefits to support wellbeing

Responsibilities

• Develop business cases and ROI models to enable comparable investment decisions across the portfolio
• Create resourced project plans with milestones, dependencies, and critical paths
• Maintain RAID logs as the portfolio-wide source of truth for risks and dependencies
• Stand up governance with decision logs, requirements traceability, steering cadence and approval routes
• Produce consistent status reports to support prioritisation and resourcing decisions
• Support vendor evaluation, requirements definition and procurement inputs for system selections
• Transition projects from preparation to delivery, managing scope, budget, benefits and delivery lifecycle
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders to secure project inputs
• Track benefits realisation and conduct post-implementation reviews
• Create reusable frameworks and templates to raise portfolio consistency)
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Key requirements

• Demonstrable track record delivering end-to-end IT change and systems projects
• Strong business case and ROI development including cost/benefit modelling
• Fluent in planning, RAID, governance, stakeholder management and status reporting
• Experience with vendor selection and third-party delivery partners
• Excellent written and verbal communication for senior leadership
• Able to manage multiple concurrent projects and two reporting lines
• Recognised project management methodology (PRINCE2, APM PMQ, PMP or Agile/Scrum)

• end-to-end ownership
• ability to bring structure to ambiguity
• influencing without authority
• project management disciplines: planning, RAID, governance, stakeholder management, status reporting
• vendor management and third-party delivery coordination
• business case and ROI modelling

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