About the Role
Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) sits at the heart of Sky's Change Delivery, connecting insight across change, product, and technology portfolios to create a unified view of priorities, risks, and dependencies. This role supports leaders with prioritization and investment decisions by providing analysis and shaping clear recommendations on trade-offs and their impact on business value. You will gain a comprehensive view of Sky's change agenda and influence prioritization.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and coordinate the UK&I Enterprise Roadmap, ensuring portfolio plans are aligned to strategic priorities.
- Synthesize information from portfolios, technology, and business teams to identify themes, risks, and opportunities.
- Analyze portfolio plans, milestones, dependencies, and capacity to identify risks.
- Identify, track, and coordinate dependencies, risks, and sequencing across portfolios and external partners, escalating issues and supporting resolution.
- Translate complex portfolio information into clear narratives, presentations, and recommendations for senior leaders.
- Support quarterly planning, prioritization, and investment reviews with analysis and insight.
- Build relationships across Change Portfolios, Technology, Product, and Operations, challenging plans that may impact business outcomes.
- Support improvements to EPM ways of working and the adoption of AI for increased efficiency and faster insight generation.
Requirements
- Strong experience in portfolio management, with experience in Programme and project management, business planning, transformation, or consulting within a large or complex organization.
- Proven ability to work across multiple teams, workstreams, or business areas, identifying dependencies, risks, and connections.
- Excellent analytical skills with experience interrogating detailed and incomplete data from multiple sources.
- Strong communication skills with senior audiences, including producing reporting, presentations, or written recommendations.
- Ability to translate complex information into clear and concise narratives.
- Proven ability to build relationships, establish trust, and influence or constructively challenge senior stakeholders without direct authority.
- Experience facilitating meetings, governance forums, planning sessions, or workshops.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and taking initiative to create clarity and make progress.
- Commercially aware, understanding how change activity contributes to business performance and value.
- Experience improving processes, reporting, or ways of working.
- Openness to using AI to work more efficiently.
- Appropriate right to work in the UK.
- Criminal record check required upon successful application.
Skills
- Portfolio management
- Programme management
- Project management
- Business planning
- Transformation
- Consulting
- Analytical skills
- Communication with senior audiences
- Reporting
- Presentation skills
- Relationship building
- Influencing
- Constructive challenge
- Meeting facilitation
- Governance forums
- Planning sessions
- Workshop facilitation
- Ambiguity tolerance
- Commercial awareness
- Process improvement
- Reporting improvement
- AI tools
- Enterprise portfolio planning
- Roadmap consolidation
- Investment planning
- Value assessment
- Benefits assessment
- Return on investment assessment
- Agile
- SAFe
- Hybrid delivery environments
- Technology delivery
- Platform teams
- Roadmap tools
- Planning tools
- Portfolio management tools
- Working in a regulated environment
- Legal
- Risk
- Compliance
Location
- Livingston
- Osterley
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree or professional qualification (e.g., CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or recognized project/portfolio management qualification) or equivalent relevant experience.
Benefits
- Free Sky TV package, including Sky Sports and Sky Cinema
- Pension package with up to 9% employer contribution
- Private healthcare with mental health support
- Aviva Digital GP and dental insurance
- Discounts on Sky products (Sky Mobile, Sky Broadband, Sky Glass, Sky Protect)
- Sharesave and Tech schemes
- A range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences
About the Company
- Sky is a leading media and entertainment company connecting millions with entertainment, sports, news, and arts through innovative products and services.
- Working at Sky means bringing the joy of a better experience to more people every day.
- Sky aims to do better and deliver better for customers, colleagues, and society.
Equal Opportunity
- Sky is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.
- Sky is a Disability Confident Accredited Employer.
- Sky welcomes and encourages applications from all candidates.
- Sky will ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support candidates where appropriate.
- Sky does not offer sponsorship for this position.
