Enterprise Portfolio Office Manager

Summary

•    Enterprise Portfolio Office Manager 
•    Permanent role
•    Based at Manchester Airport 

Why MAG?

Every year, Manchester Airport connects over 28 million passengers with more than 200 destinations across the globe. As the fourth largest airport in the UK, Manchester is also in the top 20 airports in Europe. Part of the largest UK owned airport operator group, MAG, Manchester Airport supports over 19,000 jobs onsite and generates around £7.75bn each year for the region. Sustainability is one of our core values, and it shapes everything we do. We're committed to protecting the environment and supporting our local communities.  Our programmes include airport and airline decarbonisation, comprehensive education, skills and employment support and community engagement initiatives including volunteering opportunities. At MAG, we recognise creating a first-class journey for our customers starts by creating a first-class career journey for our colleagues and we are committed to building inclusive environments in which our people can thrive. You’ll also have access to some great benefits including:

• Bonus scheme
• 10% company contribution pension
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Free parking
• Subsidised public transport
• Huge range of company discounts
• 2 volunteering days per year
• Free Virtual GP service, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Care Concierge service

The Role

As the Enterprise Portfolio Office (EPO) Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping, developing, and maturing MAG’s enterprise portfolio capability. Reporting to the EPO Director, you will oversee the day-to-day running of the EPO, ensuring effective governance and supporting critical decision-making forums including the Board and ExCo sub-committees. You will embed consistent enterprise standards, frameworks, and controls that give ExCo and senior leaders a clear line of sight across the Group’s strategic change and BAU priorities. This ensures initiatives are strategically aligned, risks are proactively managed, and business outcomes are delivered with transparency and accountability. Acting as an internal governance expert, you will review and challenge reporting and business cases, coach leaders on the production of high-quality governance artefacts (e.g. forum ToRs, Board/ExCo papers), and help ExCo draw meaningful insight from programme and portfolio reporting. You will also maintain an integrated enterprise view of key change and BAU milestones, enabling proactive management of dependencies, critical paths, and risk exposure. A key part of the role will be driving the adoption of enabling technology solutions — such as a central knowledge hub — to strengthen governance management, improve consistency, and ensure a single version of the truth across the enterprise portfolio. Finally, you will lead the tracking and reporting of agreed KPIs, providing ExCo with timely, accurate insights into governance performance, and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in effectiveness, efficiency, and value delivery.

What will make you successful in the role?

You will bring extensive experience in enterprise-level governance, portfolio management, or strategic change leadership, ideally gained within complex and regulated environments. You will be confident in engaging, influencing, and building credibility with senior leaders, ExCo, and Board members, and will have an ability to provide enterprise-level insights across both change and BAU portfolios. With strong analytical and problem-solving skills, you will be able to interpret financial, operational, and risk data to generate clear, evidence-based recommendations, and will demonstrate sound commercial acumen to support investment prioritisation and risk-based decision-making. You will be skilled at reviewing and improving governance artefacts such as ExCo and Board papers, Terms of Reference, and portfolio reporting, ensuring high-quality, consistent outputs. We’re looking for someone who is confident in utilising available digital tools to improve efficiency and collaboration, for example use of advanced formulas or pivot tables in Excel or creating team sites in SharePoint. Excellent communication skills will allow you to distil complex information into concise and compelling insights for executive audiences. In addition, you will have experience in embedding enabling technologies—such as portfolio management tools, dashboards, or central knowledge hubs—that strengthen governance and provide a single version of the truth. A degree in business administration, governance, or project/portfolio management (or equivalent professional experience), while professional certifications such as MoP, MSP, PMP, PRINCE2 or PgMP are desirable but not essential where deep equivalent expertise is evident.

Equal Opportunities & Reasonable Adjustments

At MAG we believe in the importance of diversity & inclusion for all. We are committed to creating a workforce that is reflective of our society. As such we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

We’re also committed to well-being with a focus on mental health and supporting colleagues from underrepresented groups through our Colleague Resource Groups.

As a Disability Confident employer we are committed to creating an environment where candidates and employees can perform at their optimum. Please let us know if we can provide you with any reasonable adjustments to aid your application or interview process.

You can contact the team by emailing HR.Recruitment@MAGAirports.com

Our Colleague Resource Groups include: Women’s Network, Embrace - Race & Ethnicity Group, Fly With Pride (LGBTQIA+), Mental Health, Parent & Carers, Disabilities including neurodiversity