Portfolio Strategy & Commercial Lead (Inside IR35)

• The role will manage the portfolio partners and partner with product to ensure the Technology roadmap is synchronised with our internal strategy but is reflects the Business Strategy.
• The role will also lead and be accountable for Portfolio team. The portfolio team will drive commercial insight, analysis and reporting across the group investment portfolio. The team will lead through a partnership model, helping the business and
  Technology create a cohesive strategic pipeline of value led investment propositions.
• This role will also play a critical part in translating our Technology vision into a cohesive strategy, ensuring ongoing commercial viability in an everchanging external and internal landscape.
• The role will help build the overarching Technology narrative and help communicate the strategy across both Technology and the wider organisation. The role will ensure alignment with overall Group strategic objectives and develop a mechanism to
  ensure continuous tracking, reporting and measurement of delivery and investment against the roadmap.
• This role will closely with Head of Portfolio and Strategy to build all key pan Tech analysis and presentations around financials, performance and strategy
• The role with work with Tech Grow to build our internal strategy and commercial capability and CoE across Technology.
  
• The role will also oversee and help build our consolidated procurement strategy and planning for Technology, working closely with Group procurement and the respective SLT relationship leads.

• Previous background in strategy consulting essential
• A commercially driven individual with hands on experience creating and embedding high level strategic plans and roadmaps across an organisation with specific focus on Technology functions
• Strong financial experience, preferably with a financial qualification and operating in a commercial background with prioritisation of outcomes to maximise value
• Experience managing and leading an agile Technology change portfolio team with a significant budget and resource
  
• Experience in strategic leadership and developing people through positive engagement
• Specific experience embedding technology strategy within a product centred delivery function
• Thrives in a fluid environment, helping to drive positive change
• Significant experience working with very senior internal/external stakeholders to build a cohesive strategy
• Experience using data and insight to build compelling narratives to support the strategy and to positively influence and enable executive decision making
• Systems thinking, problem solving, analytical skills & a collaborative team player with strong relationship management skills
• Numerate with an ability to translate strategy into commercially driven prioritisation and decision-making
• Familiarity with risk frameworks and understanding the balance between risk and return
• Has extensive experience of establishing and leading high-performing teams

• Significant strategy building and execution experience
• A solid understanding of Technology operating models and the evolving technology landscape/trends
• Significant experience running portfolio teams within a hybrid project/product delivery model
• Clear understanding of project and product delivery methodology
• Hands on delivery experience within a project and product environment
• Very strong commercial and financial experience, ideally a commercial accountant with background in change portfolios
• Very strong EQ and ability to work with a myriad of stakeholders at varying levels of seniority.
• Ability to consume complex data and underlying strategies and translate them into a cohesive narrative and roadmap.
• Broad technology experience with a good understanding of the underlying technology functions (Engineering, Architecture, data)
• Experience creating and embedding strategy in a product centred organisation with hybrid delivery teams
  

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 815,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers.  It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.  We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.