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About the Role
The Portfolio Lead is responsible for establishing and managing an enterprise-wide portfolio management capability within Pacific Life Re’s Business Change function. This role enables senior leadership to make data-driven, strategically aligned investment decisions by overseeing the project portfolio pipeline, governance, and resource prioritization.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted advisor to divisional leadership and senior stakeholders
- Drive alignment across competing priorities between Lines of Business, Divisional Business Services, and Technology
- Build relationships across Change, Finance, Strategy, Risk, and Technology functions
- Provide clear, concise updates to leadership teams
- Implement integrated planning processes across strategy, budgets, and delivery
- Challenge and shape demand to ensure alignment with business priorities
- Manage the intake, assessment, and prioritization of change demand
- Translate business strategy into a coherent and prioritized change pipeline
- Establish portfolio taxonomy, definitions, and lifecycle frameworks
- Support investment planning, business case development, and funding decisions
- Align portfolio processes with Finance, Strategy, Technology, and Risk
- Create and maintain a single integrated view of the change portfolio
- Redefine governance frameworks for prioritizing, sequencing, and pausing initiatives
- Strengthen governance to ensure transparency, auditability, and strategic alignment
- Ensure visibility of delivery status, risks, issues, and interdependencies
- Deliver forward-looking portfolio insights regarding health, performance, and resource constraints
- Drive consistency in delivery standards, methodologies, and documentation
- Upskill the Business Change function and business areas in portfolio disciplines
- Embed consistent standards, tools, and ways of working
- Drive continuous improvement within the Change function
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in portfolio, transformation, or change leadership
- Experience within Insurance or Financial Services sectors
- Proven track record of establishing or maturing Portfolio or Transformation Offices
- Expertise in portfolio management frameworks such as MoP, P3O, or enterprise PMO models
- Experience in investment prioritization and business case evaluation
- Proficiency in portfolio analytics, reporting, and tools like Planview, Clarity, or Power BI
- Strong understanding of delivery methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills at the Executive Committee level
- Ability to facilitate difficult trade-off decisions
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to translate analysis into actionable insight
- Strong commercial awareness and value focus
Skills
- Portfolio Management
- Strategic Planning
- Stakeholder Management
- Change Management
- Investment Prioritization
- Portfolio Analytics
- Governance Frameworks
- Agile Methodology
- Waterfall Methodology
- Commercial Awareness
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell days
- Adoption and fertility leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Comprehensive private healthcare insurance
- Group Life Insurance (9x basic salary)
- Group Income Protection (up to 75% of basic salary)
- Optical benefits
- 15% combined employee/employer retirement contributions
- Subsidized gym membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Paid time off for volunteering
- Charitable donation matching
About the Company
- Pacific Life Re is a global business that values unique employee qualities and supports individual ambitions.
- The company fosters a culture of achievement, teamwork, and work-life balance.
- Pacific Life Re is committed to community involvement through fundraising and volunteering.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees.
- Provides reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.