CityFibre

Portfolio Project Manager

CityFibre  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Onsite)  •  7 days ago
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Job Description

As the UK’s largest independent full fibre network and wholesale platform of choice, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Our network is greener, more reliable and designed for the future. The products we run over it lead the way on speed, value and service - helping businesses to innovate, communities to thrive, and people to live more connected digital lives.

At CityFibre, you’ll be part of something bigger, helping to build a better-connected Britain, together.

Joining us as a Portfolio Project Manager

A hands‑on project leader responsible for delivering complex initiatives end‑to‑end, ensuring strong governance, stakeholder alignment, and performance across cost, time, quality, and benefits.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

  • Deliver end‑to‑end projects to agreed scope, time, cost, and quality
  • Maintain plans, risks, dependencies, and change control
  • Provide clear, portfolio‑level reporting and status updates
  • Manage budgets, forecasts, and cost tracking
  • Coordinate stakeholders, suppliers, and cross‑functional teams
  • Drive readiness, adoption, and benefits realisation

What you’ll bring to the role

Strong project delivery expertise, financial discipline, and stakeholder management, with the ability to manage complex change in fast‑paced environments.

You’ll also have:

  • Proven experience delivering complex projects in a portfolio environment
  • Strong planning, risk, and dependency management skills
  • Experience managing project budgets and forecasts
  • Ability to produce clear, executive‑level reporting
  • Experience working across multiple teams and stakeholders
  • Confidence using PPM and reporting tools (e.g. Power BI, Excel)

Additional Information

Life at CityFibre

Everyone deserves to feel heard, valued and truly included. Working alongside our Employee Communities, we’re committed to creating a workplace where people feel a genuine sense of belonging and pride in what they do. That’s why we’re proud to be a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, endorsed by WORK180, a Disability Confident Leader, a Care Leaver Friendly Employer, and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.

We’ll support you to thrive inside and outside of work, with opportunities to grow your career and a flexible benefits package that adapts to your life – including generous annual leave (with an extra day off on your birthday), private medical insurance, health cash plans and family‑friendly policies.

Find out more about our culture, communities and benefits on our careers site

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!

CityFibre

About CityFibre

At CityFibre, we’re building a new, intelligent, open-access fibre network, purpose built for the data age. We’re upgrading communities across the country, giving people a better foundation for their digital lives, enabling businesses to innovate, and helping to strengthen the UK economy.

Our national networks are expanding rapidly, and we are already the network of choice for major Internet Service Providers and mobile operators including TalkTalk, Three, Vodafone and Zen, as well as dozens of exciting smaller providers.

Using our networks, our customers can provide theirs, be they homes, businesses, schools, or hospitals with broadband, Ethernet and mobile connections so quick and reliable, you can practically take them for granted.

With almost two million premises already passed, our fully financed rollout programme is on track to serve a third of the UK. That’s around 8m homes, 800k businesses, 400k local authority sites and 250k 5G access points that will soon have access to the UK’s finest digital infrastructure.

Industry
Telecommunications
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
London, GB
Year Founded
2011
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