Portfolio Partner

About The Role

This position sits within the MO Technology function and reports into the Technology Portfolio-Strategy and Commercial Lead. The role will be responsible for partnering across the Business, aligned to the designated tribes to help co-create the strategic investment pipeline. Main Responsibilities

• Work to form effective relationships with the business, finance and other key functions to understand and help craft business strategy roadmaps, whilst ensuring continuous alignment with the broader Group and Technology Strategy and Roadmap.
• Co-lead managing the investment portfolio and work across business and Technology teams to create a holistic and cohesive view of all Investment (product, project and pipeline). The portfolio partner will work with their co-partner to help
  drive commercial insight, analysis and reporting across the group investment portfolio.
• Input into the production of the monthly Strategic Investment Committee. The Portfolio team will lead through a partnership model, helping the business and Technology create a cohesive strategic pipeline of value led investment propositions.
• Manage the Portfolio Reporting Lead and will be responsible for implementing an automated portfolio reporting and insight capability.
• Partner with the Product Operations team to ensure the strategic portfolio reporting capability and tooling is designed and built to meet the overarching needs of all delivery mechanisms can produce insight led consolidated reports/dashboards/presentations.
• Project manage the process to evaluate current portfolio reporting capability and
  implement/onboard a new Strategic Portfolio tooling and platform.
• This role will also play a critical part in ensuring that the portfolio of work is helping to drive our Technology strategy and roadmap.
• The two partner roles will ensure alignment with overall Group strategic objectives and develop an effective and ultimately automated mechanism to ensure continuous tracking, reporting and measurement of delivery and investment against the roadmap i.e. OKRS and
  KPI's.

About You

• A commercially driven individual with hands on experience creating and embedding high level strategic plans and roadmaps across an organisation.
• Demonstrable experience in change management through both portfolio management and value focussed product/project delivery.
• Experience managing portfolios and demonstrating ability to drive insight that fosters a culture of value led prioritisation.
• Experience in leadership and development of people through positive engagement.
• Significant experience building and operating portfolio and insight led reporting functions.
• Strong reporting tooling and automation experience.
• Thrives in a fluid environment, helping to drive positive change.
• Significant experience working with very senior internal/external stakeholders to build a cohesive strategy.
• Demonstrable experience with business storytelling and building compelling narratives to support the strategy.
• Systems thinking, problem solving, analytical skills & a collaborative team player with strong relationship management skills.
• Highly numerate and financial with an ability to translate strategy and outcomes into tangible commercial value.
• Familiarity with risk frameworks and understanding the balance between risk and return.

Minimum criteria

• A solid understanding of Technology operating models and the evolving technology landscape/trends.
• Very strong commercial and financial experience.
• Very strong EQ and ability to work with a myriad of stakeholders at varying levels of seniority.
• Demonstrate the ability to create a strong and forward-thinking reporting and insight function.
• Ability to consume complex data and underlying strategies and translate them into a cohesive narrative and roadmap.
• Broad technology experience with a good understanding of the underlying technology functions (Engineering, Architecture, data).
• Experience helping stakeholders translate strategy into tangible value in a product centred organisation.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 815,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions.
• We drive change.
• We care.

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus.
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period).
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days.
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office.
• 1 day for volunteering.
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover.
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help.
• Funded health screening for over 50s.
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans.
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go.
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees.
• Generous family leave policies.

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first-rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.