Portfolio Project Manager

Joining us as a Portfolio Project Manager

A hands‑on Portfolio Project Manager responsible for delivering complex initiatives end‑to‑end, ensuring strong governance, stakeholder alignment, and performance across cost, time, quality, and benefits.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing: 

• Deliver end-to-end projects to agreed scope, time, cost and quality objectives
• Maintain robust project plans, risks, dependencies and change control throughout the project lifecycle
• Assess the impact of project changes and provide recommendations to support effective decision-making
• Manage budgets, forecasts and performance reporting, ensuring strong governance and visibility across delivery
• Coordinate stakeholders, suppliers and cross-functional teams to drive successful implementation and benefits realisation

What you’ll bring to the role 

Strong project delivery expertise, financial discipline and stakeholder management, with the ability to lead complex change, establish effective delivery structures and provide confidence in project outcomes.

You’ll also have:

• Proven experience delivering large-scale, complex projects within a portfolio environment
• Strong planning, risk and dependency management skills, with experience developing and maintaining detailed project plans and delivery roadmaps
• A solid understanding of cost, time, quality and scope management, with the ability to assess the wider implications of project decisions and changes
• Experience producing high-quality project documentation, governance artefacts and executive-level reporting
• Confidence embedding project management best practice and supporting teams to adopt effective planning, governance and delivery disciplines

As the UK’s largest independent full fibre network and wholesale platform of choice, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be. 

Our network is greener, more reliable and designed for the future. The products we run over it lead the way on speed, value and service - helping businesses to innovate, communities to thrive, and people to live more connected digital lives.  

At CityFibre, you’ll be part of something bigger, helping to build a better-connected Britain, together. 

Life at CityFibre  

Everyone deserves to feel heard, valued and truly included. Working alongside our Employee Communities, we’re committed to creating a workplace where people feel a genuine sense of belonging and pride in what they do. That’s why we’re proud to be a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, endorsed by WORK180, a Disability Confident Leader, a Care Leaver Friendly Employer, and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. 

We’ll support you to thrive inside and outside of work, with opportunities to grow your career and a flexible benefits package that adapts to your life – including generous annual leave (with an extra day off on your birthday), private medical insurance, health cash plans and family‑friendly policies. 

Find out more about our culture, communities and benefits on our careers site. 

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!