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In UK&I Technology we listen, influence and join the dots between business and technology strategies, working across Sky UK, Sky group and Comcast. Our unique insight smooths the way for the delivery of roadmaps, programmes and projects, guaranteeing they fit with Sky’s big picture and strategic imperatives.

We are looking for a Portfolio Managers to be responsible for an individual portfolio for UK&I CTO, ensuring we provide status updates on our holistic portfolio with active management of risks and issues

What you’ll do:

• You will be responsible for an individual portfolio and associated ops model for UK&I CTO, ensuring we provide status updates on the relevant portfolio with active management of risks and issues

• Support the implementation of portfolio-level governance to ensure alignment of senior stakeholders and alignment with Sky-wide delivery functions

• Manage the portfolio roadmaps including tracking of lifecycle stages, inter-dependencies, milestones & budget through regular automated dashboards and tooling

• You will be responsible for facilitating our future demand and capacity views across all directorates ensuring that the department is setup to support the business roadmap aspirations for the specific portfolio with rapid and flexible execution

• In conjunction with your peers, you ensure a smooth transition of projects from pipeline through to delivery, so we are setup to achieve the desired outcome.

• Encourage a culture of innovation and value add; inspiring creative thinking whilst focussing on outcome by putting value and purpose first

• In conjunction with Engagement and Delivery, shape and prioritise the UK&I CTO pipeline of initiatives by facilitating business and technology SMEs

• Design and continually improve an agile portfolio framework for UK&I CTO in conjunction with your peers, that meets the needs of your specific Portfolio ensuring maximising skillsets and minimising unnecessary governance

• You will work with the relevant SMEs across the department on balancing business value with technical feasibility and ensuring we support our architectural evolution, technical and business roadmaps

• You will engage directly with our technology and business partners, both internal and external. You will build strong and collaborative relationships across the business, operational and delivery areas and be seen as a trusted advisor. 

• Your relentless pro-activity will be key to unblocking teams and driving continuous learning, innovation and best agile-scaled practice in the portfolio domain

What you’ll bring:

• We would welcome experience in the telecommunications, broadband, satellite and media industries, though not essential. We expect you to exercise all the attributes expected within the role including feasibility, pipeline management, scope management, change control, risk and issue management.

• Friendly, approachable, inspiring and collaborative leader, model of agile leadership

• Passionate about mastering and innovating best practice in business and technical portfolio management 

• Importantly, you will have a pragmatic results and outcome-oriented mindset, with a track record of having facilitated technology and stakeholders on large scale projects

• You will have vision, drive, diplomacy and the ability to make things happen in an environment of ambiguity, complexity and multiple stakeholders, being able to influence others without direct authority.

• We need you to be an amazing facilitator who is able to resolve tension and increase collaboration towards shared goals in any situation, and who is able to build effective relationships with a range of individuals at all levels in the organisation.

• You'll be a brilliant communicator and listener, who is able to translate messages and simplify and summarise problems in a straightforward and succinct manner.

• A keen problem solver , you will be comfortable taking the initiative in quickly grasping ideas in both familiar and unfamiliar domains, and you will be able to use your business acumen and understanding of Sky’s strategic objectives to prioritise and shape these ideas to aid the delivery of the portfolios.

• Finally, we want you to be capable of remaining positive when under pressure. There will be challenges and stressful times, so we want the people to be able to handle those times as positively as possible and to be seen in control of all situations and challenges.

Team Overview:

UK&I Technology

Ground-breaking projects. Innovative tech. Top innovation. Join our UK&I Technology team and you’ll work across technology projects that drive our TV, broadband, mobile and Sky Connect services. You’ll be at the heart of delivering the technology roadmaps that support our UK and Ireland businesses, with a focus on customer innovations for Sky Glass. That’s not all. You’ll also design, develop and deliver digital services for millions of customers across the UK.

We bring the best from the global market into Sky – we buy technology, marketing, corporate, operational services and editorial production solutions. We are an international team working with our stakeholders our partners to curate the most effective and efficient customer-led operating model. High ethical standards are embeded in our team, and we engage our supply chains in creating a sustainable future!

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

• A generous pension package

• Private healthcare

• Discounted mobile and broadband

Where you’ll work:

Livingston Watermark House

Our lively campus is a free shuttle bus away from Livingston South train station and the town centre. Plus there’s onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

You’ll be well fed at our subsidised canteen, and you can keep in shape at our onsite gym. Or play a game of pool or table tennis.

Osterley

Our Osterley campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Chiswick Park, Gunnersbury, Acton Town and Ealing Broadway tube stations. There’s also plenty of parking, bike shelters and showers.

On campus you’ll find six subsidised restaurants and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.  

Inclusion:

Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working!

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.