Job Description
VP Portfolio, Delivery Performance & Governance
Derby
Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented individual to join Technology Platforms as a Vice President - Portfolio, Delivery Performance & Governance.
Technology Platforms is a critical and foundational enabling function within Digital & IT that delivers seamless user centric, Infrastructure & Operational services to the business in conjunction with the business partnering domains and wider shared services functions.
Technology Platforms manages and delivers a significant and complex portfolio, designing, building, implementing, running and maintaining technology platforms and services for IT, Business and Customer funded technology programmes. Technology Platforms is also accountable for the day to day run and maintain of the global IT landscape, managing IT operating costs and supplier contractual adherence and performance.
Reporting to the SVP Technology Platforms, this is a pivotal role in ensuring the overall exceptional performance and success of the Technology Platforms function, this is also a critical interface role between Technology Platforms and the Partnering and wider shared services functions.
Responsibilities:
Deliver robust Portfolio planning and management across all aspects of Technology platforms:
- Working in conjunction with the Technology Towers, Strategic Projects and EA community, manage the annual demand management process for TP, ensuring demand is prioritised and justified in line with the agreed D&IT 5 YP - IT, Business & Customer funded.
- Robustly manage the change control and demand re-prioritisation process.
- Primary interface into the central PMO function for all portfolio matters.
- Owns the impact assessment and shaping of divisional and wider shared services portfolio requirements on TP, determines deliverability and prioritisation against the TP portfolio plan.
- Central ownership of the consolidated strategic roadmaps, building and maintaining a cohesive top level portfolio plan, which incorporates IT, Business and Customer funded and is consumable, showing key outputs and milestones.
Delivering the Portfolio – ensuring that the strategic intent of the portfolio is realised through the delivery of projects and programmes:
- Central management and governance of the investment committee process for TP, this includes TP, business and customer funded demand:
- Ensuring that investment papers are scheduled and delivered throughout the year in line with the portfolio plan.
- Responsible for ensuring that all IC papers meet the quality requirements and diligently justify the business case in a manner that is consumable at all levels.
- In conjunction with the Tech Towers assessment of business and customer funded papers ensuring that TP impact assessment is thoroughly conducted and clearly represented in the papers.
- Validation and challenge of costs, Capex, One-off and ongoing Opex in all IC papers.
- TP lead at the PMO demand forum.
- Project Delivery Performance - Deliver a step change in project delivery with all projects delivered to time, cost and quality:
- Overarching management of the TP Capital budget – ensuring that Tech Towers meet the financial forecasts and treatment plans are implemented promptly to remediate any deviation.
- Manage the centralised project health reporting and governance – ensuring that projects deliver to time, cost and quality and treatment plans are implemented promptly to remediate any deviation.
- Ensure that OPC is accurate across all TP delivery – this includes project 4 box updates to reflect.
- Manage the TP portfolio resourcing plan ensuring that all resources are allocated effectively.
- Provide a centralised view of the TP RAID - Monitor and manage portfolio-level risks, issues, and dependencies, providing analysis to highlight impacts and recommend actions.
- Stakeholder communication - Facilitate clear communication between project teams and stakeholders, ensuring effective information flow and collaboration to meet objectives.
Governance & Reporting – Ensuring that TP is providing robust reporting on performance across all aspects of the function:
- Accountable for producing the consolidated TP reporting for the MBR & QBR process, demonstrating the value that the function is delivering for the D&IT and wider business.
- Accountable for producing new monthly divisional reports showing key TP deliverables to support the strategic plans of the Divisional groups.
- Drive the continuous improvement of reporting mechanisms and processes, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, leverage existing tools and automate.
- Deliver any additional ad-hoc or new reporting requirements.
- Accountable for the holistic TP governance framework ensuring that the governance framework is robust and deliver tangible and effective outcomes for the function.
- Accountable for ensuring that governance and reporting requirements are aligned with governance forums/meetings providing a direct feed of required information.
- Accountable for ensuring that governance is simplified, standardised and not onerous.
Why Rolls-Royce?
Work with us and we’ll welcome you into a culture of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. We will listen first, embrace feedback and act with integrity. We will invest in your continuous learning and development, and make sure you have access to a wide breadth and depth of opportunities to grow your career and make a difference.
We offer excellent development, a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.
Who we’re looking for:
Being a part of Rolls-Royce, you’ll know we embrace agility, are bold, pursue collaboration and seek simplicity in everything we do. These principles form our values and behaviours and are an essential component of our assessment process and are fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.
To be successful in this role you will need to meet the following criteria:
Preferred requirements:
- Senior leadership experience - Strong leadership skills to direct cross-functional teams and collaborate across all functional groups within TP and the wider D&IT organisation.
- Demonstrable experience of working in a complex, multi-faceted and large-scale Portfolio environment.
- Demonstrable experience of programme and portfolio delivery.
- Extensive financial management experience.
- The ability to work with and communicate effectively across all levels within the organisation - exceptional verbal and written communication skills are necessary to translate complex technical information for non-technical stakeholders, including executives and business leaders.
- Strong ability to influence others through reasoned discussion and clear articulation.
- Critical thinking and analytical skills to resolve complex, ambiguous issues.
- Strong attention to detail with meticulous organisational skills to manage schedules, documentation, and reporting.
- The role will require UK SC clearance as a minimum.
Join us & help Rolls-Royce to become a high-performing, competitive, resilient business.
Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk.
The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Level B.
This job is advertised at the grades shown, and this is the desired operating level for this role.
We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.
It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.
We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.
You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here.
Grade: Level B
Closing Date: Midnight Monday 15th Dec 2025
For further information please contact: Katie Mulligan
Recruiter: Alison Haw – alison.haw2@Rolls-Royce.com
Job Category
Information Technology
Posting Date
10 Dec 2025; 00:12
Posting End Date
15 Dec 2025