Overview Join CEVA Logistics as an IT Project Portfolio Manager to steer a global portfolio of IT projects that align with business strategy and customer commitments. You will lead diverse initiatives across IT, business units, customers, and partners to deliver valuable outcomes and improve governance, processes, and delivery approaches. The role focuses on predictable, efficient IT delivery and strong governance across programmes. Based at the Ashby-de-la-Zouch head office, you will travel regionally and globally to coordinate stakeholders and vendors. This position offers an opportunity to shape CEVA’s IT delivery capabilities and drive transformation.
Pay / Benefits - competitive annual leave entitlement
- holiday buy scheme
- pension
- life assurance
- employee benefits platform with discounts
- vouchers for retail, travel and hospitality brands
Responsibilities - Own and manage the IT project portfolio ensuring alignment with business strategy, customer commitments, delivery capabilities and vendor partnerships
- Collaborate with senior leadership to set portfolio goals, plans and priorities balancing demand, resources and value
- Drive predictable delivery across projects by coordinating IT, business partners, customers and vendors to meet scope, timelines, quality and financial targets
- Establish and enforce portfolio governance including delivery standards, reporting, risk management, change control, stage gates and steering governance
- Provide executive visibility of performance, financials, risks, dependencies and decisions
- Own portfolio financial governance including budgets, forecasts, actuals, variances and commercial impacts of scope changes
- Lead and develop the IT Project Delivery team to strengthen accountability, governance, tools and ways of working
Key requirements - Proven experience managing multiple large, complex IT projects in a 3PL or logistics environment
- Strong project management expertise across planning, budgeting, resource allocation, risk management and governance
- Good understanding of logistics and supply chain processes (warehouse operations, WMS implementations, system integrations)
- Experience managing project finances, forecasting, cost control and resource capacity
- Understanding of IT architecture, APIs, EDI, data flows and cross-application dependencies
- Fluency in Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid delivery methodologies
- Experience with project management/reporting tools (Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira)
- Ability to build relationships with senior stakeholders in a global matrix organization
- collaboration
- stakeholder management
- accountability
- IT project portfolio management
- governance and reporting
- risk management
