DEMAND & PORTFOLIO COORDINATOR

Location Warwickshire
Job type: Contract
Salary: £36.25ph INSIDE IR35 Via Umbrella Solutions
Contact name: Johanna Cowan

Contact email: jcowan@select-engineering.net
Contact phone: 01245403560
Job ref: 36747466
Published: 23 days ago
Duration: 12 Months (Mat cover)
Expiry date: 19 Jun 2026 23:59
Startdate: ASAP

The Opportunity:

  • We are seeking a motivated Demand & Portfolio Coordinator to support Customer Experience demand and prioritisation activities.

  • This role is an important part of our digital transformation journey, helping us move towards a truly customer centric, digitally led business.

  • The Demand & Portfolio Coordinator contributes to shaping and managing the demand pipeline.

  • Working closely with business stakeholders and delivery teams, the role helps ensure requests are captured, validated, prioritised, and aligned with strategic roadmaps.

  • By assisting governance processes, maintaining portfolio visibility, and supporting continuous improvement, the coordinator enables the organisation to deliver change with clarity and control.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities:

Demand Management:

  • Support the capture, validation, and assessment of digital demand submissions.

  • Ensure requests are processed promptly and directed to appropriate delivery channels.

  • Assist in maintaining traceability of demand items through to delivery.

  • Plan and coordinate key meetings, ensuring stakeholder and content coverage.

Governance & Reporting:

  • Contribute to governance forums and demand syncs.

  • Help maintain dashboards, datasets and reporting tools, ensuring accuracy of demand and portfolio data.

  • Coordinate demand outputs and supporting documentation for meetings, tracking delivery and highlighting risks.

Portfolio Oversight:

  • Support visibility of the digital portfolio

  • Assist in prioritisation discussions aligned to strategic roadmaps.

  • Monitor portfolio health and highlight risks & issues

Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Build effective working relationships across Centres of Excellence, Regions, Brands, and Business & Digital colleagues.

  • Act as a reliable partner between demand requestors and delivery teams.

  • Support clear communication and coordination of digital demand activity.

Continuous Improvement:

  • Contribute to refining demand and portfolio processes, driving efficiency and consistency.

  • Support continuous improvement initiatives by proposing new ideas and process enhancements.

  • Provide ad hoc support to the Demand & Portfolio team as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

  • Good understanding of digital ecosystems and technical landscapes

  • Ability to recognise digital complexity and highlight potential delivery risks.

  • Experience supporting portfolio or PMO processes in large, complex organisations.

  • Familiarity with Agile delivery practices and ways of working.

  • Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.

  • Skilled at building effective working relationships across cross functional teams and stakeholders.

  • Good communication and problem-solving skills.

  • Professional PMO qualification (e.g., PRINCE2®, MSP®, P3O®) desirable but not essential.

Personal Profile:

  • Resilient and enthusiastic, responding constructively to new ideas and inputs.

  • Able to gather and interpret data from multiple sources to support recommendations

  • Clear communicator, able to explain technical concepts in simple, accessible ways.

  • Customer focused, approachable, and dependable

  • Collaborative team player who supports colleagues and external stakeholders.

  • Motivated and focused, with a drive to deliver quality results on time.

  • Demonstrates perseverance and adaptability in demanding environments.

  • Willing to challenge the status quo positively