
Portfolio & Roadmap Manager
Allwyn UK
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Watford • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- **What you’ll be doing…**
- **Stakeholder Engagement**
- - Build and maintain strong relationships with senior business stakeholders (e.g., Heads of Product, Head of Digital & Retail Operations).
- - Act as a trusted advisor, ensuring alignment between business priorities and roadmap planning.
- **Requirement Gathering & Demand Management**
- - Partner with business leaders to articulate and document strategic needs and demand requests.
- - Ensure all requests meet defined entry criteria and are captured in the demand pipeline.
- **Roadmap Development & Communication**
- - Develop and maintain the **visual representation of the roadmap**, ensuring clarity on priorities, dependencies, and timelines.
- - Present roadmap updates to governance forums and senior stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making.
- **Voice of the Customer**
- - Represent business needs during prioritisation discussions, advocating for customer and commercial requirements while balancing regulatory and operational constraints.
- **Expectation Management**
- - Communicate roadmap changes, prioritisation decisions, and project status updates back to business stakeholders in a clear and timely manner.
- **Business Case Support**
- - Collaborate with business owners to support the creation of robust business cases, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- **Essential**
- - Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels.
- - Strong business acumen and understanding of strategic planning processes.
- - Proven experience in **roadmap development, portfolio management, or demand planning**.
- - Proficiency with roadmap and planning tools (e.g. Jira, Power BI).
- - Ability to operate in a **fast-paced, highly regulated environment** while maintaining governance and integrity.
- **Desirable**
- - Experience in **gambling, lottery, or other regulated industries**.
- - Strong analytical skills and ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
Benefits
- - 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)
- - Annual bonus scheme
- - 2 x Life Days
- - 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
- - Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5%
- - Single Private Health Cover
- - £500 Wellness Allowance
- - Income Protection
- - Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)
- - Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
roadmap developmentportfolio managementdemand planninganalytical skills
Soft skills
communication skillsinterpersonal skillsinfluencebusiness acumen