Change & Project Management
Portfolio Demand and Planning Lead
Job ID: 010391
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 + Bonus & Benefits depending on experience
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Portfolio Demand & Planning Lead
Join us as a Portfolio Demand & Planning Lead and play a pivotal role in shaping how change is planned, prioritised and delivered across a major Delivery Squad. This is an opportunity to combine strategic thinking, scenario modelling and stakeholder influence to drive better outcomes, while helping to establish planning as a recognised professional discipline within Change Delivery. Working in a flexible, collaborative environment, you'll have the autonomy to influence decision-making, improve delivery confidence and contribute to the evolution of enterprise-wide planning practices.
About the role
As a Portfolio Demand & Planning Lead, you will lead planning activities for an assigned Delivery Squad, ensuring plans, roadmaps and priorities are aligned to deliver maximum value and transparency.
Own and maintain a high-quality 15month Delivery Squad roadmap, providing clear visibility of milestones, outcomes, dependencies and future demand.
Lead planning cycles, scenario modelling and decision support, helping leaders understand delivery trade-offs, sequencing options and capacity impacts.
Drive planning excellence by embedding standards, challenging plans constructively and proactively managing dependencies, risks and constraints across initiatives.
About you
We're looking for an experienced planning professional who can translate complexity into clear insight, influence stakeholders at all levels and drive better decision-making through effective planning practices.
Strong experience in portfolio, programme or complex delivery planning, including dependency management, sequencing and roadmap development.
Proven ability to perform scenario modelling, generate planning insights and support leadership decision-making within a governed change environment.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience embedding planning standards, influencing without authority and using planning tools and data visualisation to improve outcomes.
About our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingOur Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Our commitments to Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
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