Location: Cora Health, The Lightbox, Quorum Park, Benton Lane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE12 8EU
Contract Type: 12 month FTC
Salary: competitive
This is a hybrid role, requiring attendance at our Newcastle Head Office once per week, with the flexibility to work remotely for the remainder of the week.
Connect Health and Healthshare have come together as one organisation - Cora Health - combining our decades of experience in providing healthcare services on behalf of the NHS
Purpose of the Job Role
As Portfolio Manager, you will be responsible for leading and overseeing Cora Health’s portfolio of business and technology change initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered successfully against agreed time, scope and budget objectives. Reporting to the Head of Business Change and Delivery, you will drive effective portfolio governance, benefits realisation and project delivery while leading and developing a team of Project Managers to support the organisation’s strategic goals.
What you’ll be doing
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Lead the management and delivery of Cora Health’s portfolio of business and IT change projects, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities.
- Develop and continuously improve portfolio governance frameworks, ensuring robust oversight, control and accountability across all projects.
- Oversee project delivery to ensure objectives are achieved within agreed timescales, scope and budget.
- Establish and manage a centralised benefits realisation process, ensuring benefits are identified, tracked and delivered.
- Provide expert project and portfolio management guidance to stakeholders across the organisation.
- Build strong relationships with senior leaders, operational teams and external partners to drive engagement and successful change adoption.
- Lead, coach and develop a team of Project Managers, supporting performance, capability development and career progression.
- Ensure consistent application of project management methodologies, tools and best practices across the portfolio.
- Identify, monitor and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies to support successful programme outcomes.
What we’re Looking For
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Proven experience managing complex project portfolios, programmes or large-scale change initiatives.
- Strong leadership skills with experience developing, mentoring and managing project delivery teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels of an organisation.
- Strong understanding of project and programme management methodologies such as Agile, Scrum, PRINCE2 and MSP.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and competing demands effectively.
- Strong commercial, budget and risk management capabilities, with a focus on delivering measurable business benefits.
- Confident communication and data presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear insights and actions.
- Desirable: Experience within the healthcare sector, knowledge of process improvement frameworks, and qualifications such as PRINCE2, AgilePM or ITIL Foundation
Why work for Cora Health?
At Cora we’re passionate about investing in our colleagues, fostering professional growth, and ensuring everyone feels appreciated. We believe that happy and engaged colleagues provide exceptional patient care and will be motivated to perform at their best. Here's a glimpse of what we offer you:
Generous Holiday Entitlement: Benefit from up to 25 days of holiday (plus public holidays) to relax and recharge. You’ll also get another day off for your Birthday. If you’d like even more holiday to enjoy you can participate in our generous holiday buy and sell scheme.
Wellness Support: Access a suite of health support tools and an employee assistance program for your well-being so you can be at your best and be your true self.
Performance Awards: Excel in your objectives and be rewarded further for your hard work with a range of pay, gifts and incentives awarded alongside attending our annual colleague awards to be treated and feel special.
Savings and Support: Make huge saving by making the most of Blue Light and Healthcare Services discounts as well as the very important employer pension contributions and a Christmas savings club.
Membership Fee Reimbursement: Save your pennies, as we cover the cost of role required professional membership fees.
Flexibility: Work in a way that supports home live, through hybrid working options and flexibility in working hours and times.
