Portfolio Analyst

Title: Portfolio Analyst

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time, 35 hours

Salary: Starting from £57,094 per annum (London weighted salary) or £49,502 per annum (Regional salary), dependant on experience

Grade: 10

Reporting Office: London, Stratford or Manchester, Trafford

Persona: Agile Worker: 20% - 40% of contractual hours to be worked from reporting office/working location (hybrid working)

Closing Date: 17th June 2026

Interview Dates: 29th-30th June 2026

Please click here for the role profile - Portfolio Analyst Role Profile.docx

Benefits include: Excellent pension plan (up to 6% double contribution), 28 days Annual Leave rising to 31 days with length of service + Bank Holidays, Westfield Health Cash Plan, non-contributory life assurance, up to 21 hours volunteering paid days, lifestyle benefits, Employee Assistance Programme and many more…

Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.

L&Q reserve the right to not shortlist applications from candidates with 3 or more unsuccessful applications within the last 24 months.

Join our Planning and Portfolio Team at L&Q:

This is a key role in L&Q’s Transformation & Change Portfolio, helping to strengthen how we plan, manage, govern and report across a complex, multi-programme transformation environment.

We are looking for a Portfolio Analyst to provide dedicated analytical and operational support to the Planning and Portfolio Team, with a particular focus on centralised resource management across the Transformation & Change Portfolio. This includes resource data quality, reporting, dashboards, utilisation and capacity information, forecasting views, and the insight needed to support effective portfolio-level planning and decision-making.

The role will suit someone who has worked in a transformation, change, technology, PMO, portfolio, resource management or analytical environment, and who is confident working with project teams, resource owners, delivery leads and enabling functions to collect, validate and improve management information.

You will help maintain a clear, reliable view of resource demand, supply, allocation, utilisation, capacity, constraints and emerging resource risks across the portfolio, ensuring that data is accurate, consistent and presented in a way that supports senior decision-making.

Whilst resource management will remain the focus of the role, we are looking for someone with broad experience across portfolio management/PMO to support across the full breadth of services the team provides.

This is an opportunity to shape and embed portfolio management capability across a major transformation portfolio, working closely with Heads of Delivery, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Technology teams, Finance, business leads and senior stakeholders across the organisation.

If this sounds like you, we would love for you to apply!

Your impact in the role:

Resource Management and Reporting

Supporting the operation and continuous improvement of centralised resource management processes across the Transformation and Change portfolio. Maintaining, validating and improving resource data received from projects, programme teams and resource owners to support clearer visibility of capacity, allocation and utilisation.

Portfolio Data and Insight

Producing and maintaining resource dashboards, MI and reporting packs covering utilisation, allocation, capacity, constraints and forecasting. Helping ensure portfolio leaders have clear, timely and reliable information to support planning, mobilisation and delivery decisions.

Reporting Cycles and Governance Support

Supporting regular resource reporting cycles, including data collection, follow-up, quality checks and preparation of outputs for leadership forums. Helping identify resource gaps, delivery pinch-points, emerging capacity risks and data inconsistencies so they can be surfaced through the right governance routes.

Process Improvement and Tooling

Supporting reporting automation, dashboard development, PMO tooling implementation and ongoing process improvement. Helping maintain portfolio controls, templates, logs and ways of working linked to resource management, planning and reporting.

Working Across the Portfolio

Working collaboratively with Project Managers, Programme Managers, resource owners and delivery teams to improve the quality and consistency of resource information. Building effective working relationships across Transformation and Change, Technology, Finance, Strategy, business teams and other key stakeholders.

Impact and Contribution

Contributing directly to better resource visibility, stronger data quality, more reliable reporting and improved confidence in portfolio planning and delivery decisions.

What you'll bring:

We are looking for someone with strong analytical capability, good attention to detail and the ability to support a developing portfolio resource management function.

You will have:

• Experience in an analyst, PMO, portfolio, project support, resource management, planning, transformation, change or technology delivery environment.

• Experience producing management information, dashboards, reports, trackers or data analysis to support decision-making.

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, spot inconsistencies and turn information into clear insight.

• Good Excel, reporting and data management skills, with experience maintaining accurate information across multiple inputs or stakeholders.

• Experience supporting governance, reporting cycles, action tracking, escalation routes or operational portfolio processes.

• Ability to work with Project Managers, Programme Managers, resource owners and enabling teams to gather, validate and improve information.

• Confidence following up on missing, incomplete or inconsistent data and helping improve reporting quality.

• Good organisational skills, with the ability to manage regular reporting deadlines, competing requests and detailed information.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce structured, professional outputs for management and leadership audiences.

• A practical improvement mindset, with an interest in improving processes, controls, templates, dashboards and ways of working over time

Portfolio, programme or project management qualifications would be helpful, but equivalent experience in a complex transformation, portfolio or consulting environment is equally valuable.

If you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage during this process, including application stage, please email lqcareers@lqgroup.org.uk

About L&Q:

We’re one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. We were founded on a simple belief: high quality housing is vital for people’s health, happiness and security. Our purpose is simple – to provide social homes and landlord services that everyone can be proud of.

250,000 people call our properties ‘home’, and we’re proud to serve diverse communities across London, the South East and North West of England.

People are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. The foundation of everything that we are is built on our corporate values, which outline our core expectations and should be demonstrated at all times, and all levels, when representing L&Q – click here to read more.

At L&Q, we know that diversity and inclusion make us stronger – and they’re at the heart of everything we do.

When we recruit, we look at what really matters: your skills, experience, and potential. We’re proud to be recognised for creating an inclusive workplace. We’re a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3) and we’ve introduced our own Recruitment Advocate scheme to make sure every step of our hiring process is fair, transparent, and consistent. It’s all part of our commitment to ending discrimination and making L&Q a place where everyone feels welcome. Find out more here.

Sustainability is also at the heart of what we do. We recognise the responsibility we hold as one of the UK’s largest housing associations.

Click here to find out more about L&Q and why you should join us!

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