Senior Portfolio Management Consultant

Primary Details Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Employee

• Location: London

• Type: Permanent, full time

• Hybrid role, happy to talk flexible working

The Opportunity:

Are you passionate about shaping strategic transformation across complex portfolios? We’re looking for a Senior Portfolio Management Consultant to lead the interface between our CTO function, business portfolio owners, and CIO transformation leads. This role is pivotal in enabling the development of our transformation portfolio, defining initiative roadmaps, and ensuring successful initiation and delivery.

You’ll work across diverse business units, providing thought leadership and maintaining an enterprise-wide view of our holistic portfolio. Your insights will help align strategic themes with actionable initiatives, while identifying key interdependencies and risks.

Your New Role:

• Lead the shaping and direction of transformation objectives across business areas (e.g., Claims, Insurance), building senior stakeholder consensus.

• Ensure business initiatives align with company strategy and enterprise architecture impacts are understood.

• Develop holistic portfolio capability views to inform initiative sequencing and prioritisation.

• Shape portfolio initiatives and support transition to delivery teams, ensuring alignment across stakeholders.

• Identify complex, high-risk, or cross-functional programmes and enable successful outcomes.

• Actively contribute to Steering Committees, monitoring progress and resolving issues.

• Engage with senior executives to understand emerging priorities and provide strategic guidance.

• Advocate for governance frameworks that ensure consistent oversight and assurance across the portfolio.

About you:

• Significant experience leading portfolio management services in large, global, and mature organisations.

• Strong track record in managing diverse change portfolios across multi-disciplinary areas.

• Broader change experience gained working in consultancy services including business architecture experience, is ideal

• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and influence decision-making across business units.

• Experience in initiative shaping and early-stage delivery planning alongside managing senior stakeholder relationships and navigating complex challenges.

• Skilled in navigating ambiguity, shifting priorities, and cross-functional delivery environments.

• Strong understanding of governance frameworks and their role in successful change delivery.

• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Why QBE? At My Best

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage. That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.?

QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation (

With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate, and kind.

To find out more about why you should work for QBE, visit our careers website.

At My Best - QBE Benefits

You are more than your work – and QBE is more than a workplace, which is why we provide you with the benefits, support and flexibility to help you concentrate on living your best life personally and professionally. As well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you!

• 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.

• Flexible working - balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours.

• Pension – you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.

• Private medical insurance – we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all the family.

• Family friendly policies – we offer 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or how you become a parent.

• Short term remote work abroad - you can request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.

• Sustainable investing - we believe sustainable integration is important for long term financial, environmental, and social outcomes. Our pension strategy supports our net-zero goal to achieve year-on-year reductions in carbon footprint, by investing more in green businesses than the broader market, so your savings are looking after the planet's future, as well as your own.

• Cycle-to-Work – benefit from regular exercise whilst making your commute greener and cheaper, select and bike and/or accessories up to the value of £5,000.

To find out more visit our Reward Page

QBE Awards

Some of the award’s QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include;?

• AXCO Global Insurance Awards 2024 Winner: Network Management of the Year

• Insurance Business UK 5-Star Cyber Awards 2024: QBE rated as a 5-Star Cyber Insurer 

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