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Portfolio Insights Lead

Remote

  1. Full time

About the job

The Portfolio Analytics & Insights Lead is responsible for shaping and delivering data-driven insights that drive strategic decision making across a complex change and transformation portfolio. The leadership role oversees a team of Portfolio Analysts and tooling experts, guiding the use of portfolio data, metrics, and AI-enhanced insights to optimise performance, prioritisation and value delivery.

You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders, PMO and Change functions, and delivery teams to embed a culture of insight-led portfolio management. This role combines strategic thinking, technical expertise, and people leadership to ensure the effective use of data, automation, and modern tooling – including Jira and AI powered solutions, across a hybrid portfolio environment.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead, manage and grow a high-performing team of portfolio analysts and Jira and Agile delivery tooling specialists.
  • Define and implement a portfolio analytics strategy that supports executive decision-making, benefits realisation, and enterprise-level planning.
  • Translate portfolio data into actionable insights using tooling and emerging AI capabilities.
  • Champion the use of AI and automation to streamline reporting, forecasting, and value tracking.
  • Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and OKR frameworks to track performance, risk, and delivery outcomes.
  • Transform raw data into clear, concise, and impactful visualisations, such as dashboards and reports, tailored to different audiences.
  • Ensure data integrity and accuracy through robust validation processes. 
  • Partner with senior leaders and delivery teams to drive alignment between data, strategy, and transformation priorities.
  • Build capability and consistency in portfolio insight practices through, coaching, process improvement and governance.

Why Join Us

Join us at a pivotal moment of transformation as we redefine how change is delivered across the enterprise. As the Portfolio Insights Lead, you’ll play a central role in shaping the future of our change portfolio - driving excellence, enabling leadership decision-making, championing innovation, and maturity in how we manage and deliver strategic initiatives.

This is more than a leadership role - it’s an opportunity to be a catalyst for smarter, faster, and more impactful change. If you’re passionate about empowering teams, driving performance, and making data meaningful, we’d love to have you on the journey.

Experience Required

We’re looking for a forward-thinking leader who can connect the dots between our data, people, and strategy. Specifically, we’re looking for someone with:

  • Experience leading portfolio analytics, PMO insights or similar within a large, complex change environment.
  • Advanced skills in data analytics, visualisation, Agile, and relevant tooling.
  • Strong data storytelling skills, with experience influencing executive stakeholders.
  • Strong leadership and management skills with a people-first approach.
  • A track-record of negotiating and influencing at executive level.
  • Proven ability to manage and develop teams with a mix of analytical and tooling responsibilities.
  • Knowledge of emerging AI tools and use cases for portfolio management.
  • Portfolio management experience is key, the following qualifications and/or experience would be beneficial: Lean Portfolio Management, Management of Portfolios (MoP) Practitioner, Leading SAFe, ILM Level 5+, P3O Practitioner, and knowledge of Power BI, Jira, data/analytics disciplines.

Location

This can be a remote role with a requirement to attend our Cardiff office once a quarter or as and when required. If you live within 50 miles of our Cardiff office, the requirement would be once a month in the office.

Please note: This advert may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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