Portfolio Management Lead
Full time, Permanent
Location – Flexible (Ipswich, Selby, London, Glasgow) Hybrid working 1-2 days per week in your local office
Closing date: 19 May
About the role:
As the Portfolio Management Lead at Drax you’ll manage portfolio planning, governance, and performance oversight across an assigned portfolio, ensuring delivery alignment to strategic priorities, effective resource management, and consistent reporting to drive value realisation and delivery assurance.
You’ll oversee the performance of your assigned portfolio, ensuring programmes and projects deliver against the agreed scope, schedule, and benefits targets.
You’ll manage resource and organisational capacity for change across the group for your respective portfolio areas.
You’ll drive accountability across project sponsors, ensuring ownership of delivery outcomes and benefit realisation through structured governance and transparent reporting.
You’ll prioritise the portfolio and make recommendations to the senior portfolio leads on priorities in line with business strategy and value and introduce early warning signals of portfolio performance through development and tracking of key performance indicators (KPIs) and proactive governance reviews.
Who we’re looking for:
To be successful in this role you’ll need to have a continuous improvement mindset, excellent planning and prioritisation skills and be comfortable navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities, bringing resilience and pragmatism when working through uncertainty and change.
You’ll have an analytical mindset, be a keen problem solver and have exceptional stakeholder management skills.
You’ll need to have the ability to translate portfolio performance, risks, and strategic insights into clear, concise reports for senior governance forums and make the complicated stuff easier for them to understand.
A business or project management qualification along with a portfolio management accreditation is highly desirable for this role. Experience of working with Agile or Product Management teams and development methodologies would be desirable.
Who we are:
We’re not just talking about making a difference, we’re making it happen. We generate dispatchable, renewable power and create stable energy in an uncertain world. Building on our proud heritage, we have ambition to become the global leader in sustainable biomass and carbon removals.
You’ll be joining our teams of practical doers, future thinkers and business champions. We’re enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future for all, and working hard to decarbonise the planet for generations to come.
Rewards and benefits:
As you help us to shape the future, we’ve shaped our rewards and benefits to help you thrive and support
your lifestyle. If successful in this role you’ll get:
Together, we make it happen.
At Drax, we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected, regardless of their role. To make this a reality, we actively work to better represent the communities we operate in, foster inclusion, and establish fair processes. Through these actions, we build the trust needed for all colleagues at Drax to contribute their perspectives and talents, no matter their background. Find out more about our approach here.
Talk to us about flexible working!
How to apply:
Think this role is for you? Click the ‘apply now’ button to begin your Drax journey.
If you want to find out more about Drax, check out our LinkedIn page to see our latest news.
We understand that you may have some additional questions about the role. If you’d like to have a confidential chat to discuss the role in more detail, please email careers@drax.com
We reserve the right to close roles early when the particular role and / or location has had sufficient applications.
Location – Flexible (Ipswich, Selby, London, Glasgow) Hybrid working 1-2 days per week in your local office
Closing date: 19 May
About the role:
As the Portfolio Management Lead at Drax you’ll manage portfolio planning, governance, and performance oversight across an assigned portfolio, ensuring delivery alignment to strategic priorities, effective resource management, and consistent reporting to drive value realisation and delivery assurance.
You’ll oversee the performance of your assigned portfolio, ensuring programmes and projects deliver against the agreed scope, schedule, and benefits targets.
You’ll manage resource and organisational capacity for change across the group for your respective portfolio areas.
You’ll drive accountability across project sponsors, ensuring ownership of delivery outcomes and benefit realisation through structured governance and transparent reporting.
You’ll prioritise the portfolio and make recommendations to the senior portfolio leads on priorities in line with business strategy and value and introduce early warning signals of portfolio performance through development and tracking of key performance indicators (KPIs) and proactive governance reviews.
Who we’re looking for:
To be successful in this role you’ll need to have a continuous improvement mindset, excellent planning and prioritisation skills and be comfortable navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities, bringing resilience and pragmatism when working through uncertainty and change.
You’ll have an analytical mindset, be a keen problem solver and have exceptional stakeholder management skills.
You’ll need to have the ability to translate portfolio performance, risks, and strategic insights into clear, concise reports for senior governance forums and make the complicated stuff easier for them to understand.
A business or project management qualification along with a portfolio management accreditation is highly desirable for this role. Experience of working with Agile or Product Management teams and development methodologies would be desirable.
Who we are:
We’re not just talking about making a difference, we’re making it happen. We generate dispatchable, renewable power and create stable energy in an uncertain world. Building on our proud heritage, we have ambition to become the global leader in sustainable biomass and carbon removals.
You’ll be joining our teams of practical doers, future thinkers and business champions. We’re enabling a zero carbon, lower cost energy future for all, and working hard to decarbonise the planet for generations to come.
Rewards and benefits:
As you help us to shape the future, we’ve shaped our rewards and benefits to help you thrive and support
your lifestyle. If successful in this role you’ll get:
- A discretionary bonus depending on company performance
- Private Healthcare
- SAYE (Sharesave): discretionary scheme from time to time
- Personal accident cover
- Group personal pension plan where we’ll pay up to 10%
- Holiday 25 days plus bank holidays
- Reimbursement of the cost of your annual membership of one relevant and appropriate professional body
Together, we make it happen.
At Drax, we’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued and respected, regardless of their role. To make this a reality, we actively work to better represent the communities we operate in, foster inclusion, and establish fair processes. Through these actions, we build the trust needed for all colleagues at Drax to contribute their perspectives and talents, no matter their background. Find out more about our approach here.
Talk to us about flexible working!
How to apply:
Think this role is for you? Click the ‘apply now’ button to begin your Drax journey.
If you want to find out more about Drax, check out our LinkedIn page to see our latest news.
We understand that you may have some additional questions about the role. If you’d like to have a confidential chat to discuss the role in more detail, please email careers@drax.com
We reserve the right to close roles early when the particular role and / or location has had sufficient applications.