Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager

Location: Norwich with 50% office attendance

Starting salary: c. £75,000 depending on skills and experience

Are you someone who thrives on bringing clarity, structure and strategic focus to complex portfolios?

This is a great opportunity for someone with experience in portfolio governance, strategic planning and resource management who is looking to broaden their portfolio management responsibilities. Experience gained within data, analytics, technology, insurance or another regulated environment would be highly beneficial.

A bit about the job:

You'll play a pivotal role in shaping and managing the Claims Data Science and Advanced Analytics portfolio, ensuring investment, specialist capacity and delivery activity remain aligned to Claims strategy and business priorities. Working across Claims, Data Science, Product, Technology, Finance, Risk and Change, you'll maintain an integrated portfolio roadmap while providing clear oversight of risks, dependencies, funding and resource demand. You'll support senior leaders with insight-driven recommendations on where to accelerate, reshape, pause or stop investment to maximise business value. This is a highly visible role with significant executive engagement and a direct impact on delivering customer, operational and financial outcomes.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Strong portfolio, programme or PMO leadership experience within a complex organisational environment.
• Proven experience managing portfolio governance, prioritisation, resource forecasting and executive reporting.
• Ability to track costs, benefits and value realisation, supporting evidence-based investment decisions.
• Experience managing cross-functional stakeholders and navigating competing priorities across multiple initiatives.
• Knowledge of data, analytics, AI/ML, technology delivery or a regulated industry such as insurance or financial services would be advantageous.

What you’ll get for this role:

 

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

 

• Starting salary £75,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts

• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme

• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Aviva is for everyone:

 

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

 

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

 

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

 

We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

 

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100  or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com