United Kingdom · Corporate Strategy · Mid-Level (2-5 years)

Innovation Portfolio Manager

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

Experience bandMid-Level (2-5 years)
Direct reportsNo direct reports
Reports toSenior Innovation Portfolio Manager
UK framework levelUsually a coordinator, or early in a professional job

Also advertised as Innovation Project Manager · Portfolio Analyst, Innovation · Strategy Analyst (Innovation)

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1What this role really is

You'll be the person making sure our innovation ideas actually get tracked properly, from the moment someone scribbles it on a napkin to when it's ready for a proper review. This means keeping our systems clean, running initial checks on new ideas, and generally making sure the innovation process doesn't turn into a chaotic free-for-all. It's a crucial role for keeping our innovation pipeline organised and transparent.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Aha! (Idea Management & Roadmapping)Intermediate

Entering new innovation ideas, updating project data (status, owners, key dates), and pulling standard reports for gate meetings. You'll be a daily user, ensuring data accuracy.

Jira Align (Enterprise Agile Planning)Basic

Updating feature status, linking innovation stories to broader strategic themes based on guidance from your Senior Manager. You'll mostly be consuming and updating data here, not configuring.

Anaplan (Financial & Scenario Planning)Intermediate

Inputting data into existing financial models (e.g., project costs, revenue projections), running pre-defined scenarios for project valuation (like NPV or IRR) to support gate decisions.

Tableau (Data Visualisation & BI)Intermediate

Using pre-built dashboards to extract specific project or portfolio data, and creating simple charts or graphs for presentations to illustrate trends or project health. You'll be a consumer and light creator.

Miro (Digital Collaboration)Intermediate

Participating actively in brainstorming sessions, documenting workshop outputs, and creating basic process flows or visual summaries for innovation ideas. You'll be comfortable navigating and contributing to boards.

Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)Advanced

You'll use Excel for data manipulation and analysis, PowerPoint for creating clear and impactful presentations for gate meetings, and Word for drafting process documentation and formal communications.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Project Data Updates (Status, Budget)	Updates require supervisor review/approval.	Independently updates data within established parameters; flags discrepancies to Senior Manager.	Defines parameters for data updates; reviews and approves complex changes.
Initial Idea Screening & Assessment	Assists Senior Manager with data gathering for screening.	Conducts initial DVF assessments and provides recommendations to Senior Manager.	Leads screening process, makes 'go/no-go' recommendations for early stages.
Facilitating Stage-Gate Meetings	Supports meeting logistics and note-taking.	Facilitates routine, smaller stage-gate meetings; ensures agenda adherence and clear outcomes.	Leads complex stage-gate reviews for significant projects; challenges project teams directly.
Process Improvement Suggestions	Identifies minor inefficiencies; reports to supervisor.	Proposes specific, actionable improvements to existing innovation processes and templates to Senior Manager.	Designs and implements new or significantly revised innovation processes and governance frameworks.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Data Integrity in Portfolio Systems

The accuracy and completeness of project data (status, budget, resources, next steps) within our innovation management tools.

Target · >99% accuracy

If we audit 100 data points in Aha! or Jira Align, you'll have fewer than 1 error. This means project statuses are current, budget numbers match what Finance says, and key dates are correct.

Reporting Timeliness for Stage-Gate Meetings

Ensuring all necessary pre-read materials for smaller, routine stage-gate review meetings are prepared and distributed on time.

Target · 100% of materials distributed 48 hours in advance

For a Tuesday morning gate meeting, the full pre-read pack (project summary, financial overview, next steps) is in attendees' inboxes by Friday morning, ready for them to review over the weekend.

Initial Idea Assessment Throughput

The number of new innovation ideas you take from initial submission through to a first-pass assessment (e.g., DVF check, basic market sizing).

Target · Complete 20+ initial idea assessments per quarter

In Q1, you'll have taken 22 new ideas, each submitted by a different business unit, and put them through our initial screening process, documenting your findings and recommendations for the Senior Manager.

Stakeholder Engagement & Clarity

How well you communicate with project teams and business unit leads to gather information, clarify data, and explain the innovation process.

Project teams proactively share updates with you
they understand the data requirements
feedback from your Senior Manager confirms you're clear and helpful in your interactions. People don't feel like you're just asking for data, but helping them understand why it matters.

Process Adherence & Improvement Suggestions

Your ability to follow our established innovation processes (like the stage-gate framework) and, crucially, to spot where they could be made better.

All projects you manage follow the defined steps
you're not cutting corners. You'll also bring forward specific, actionable ideas to your Senior Manager about how we could refine a template or streamline a data collection step. You're not just following rules, you're thinking about them.

Problem Identification & Solution Proposing

When you hit a snag—maybe data is missing, or a process isn't working—how effectively you identify the problem and suggest ways to fix it.

You don't just flag an issue
you come with 'here's what I think is going on and here are a couple of ways we could tackle it.' This could be anything from a data discrepancy to a misunderstanding of a framework by a project team.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Making Sense of Complexity

You enjoy taking a jumble of raw ideas and data and turning it into something structured, clear, and actionable. The satisfaction comes from bringing order to potential chaos.

Taking a dozen disparate project update emails and consolidating them into a single, coherent report for your Senior Manager, highlighting key risks and progress.

Contributing to Strategic Direction

While you're not setting the grand strategy, you're providing the foundational data and insights that directly inform those decisions. You feel good knowing your work helps steer the company.

Seeing a project you championed through the initial screening process eventually get significant funding because the data you collected proved its potential.

Continuous Learning & Exposure

You'll be exposed to a huge range of new ideas, technologies, and business models from across the company. If you love learning about what's next, you'll thrive here.

Spending an afternoon researching a new technology mentioned in a project proposal, just because you're genuinely interested in how it works and its potential impact.

What frustrates people

Chasing busy business unit leads for overdue project updates or missing data – it's like pulling teeth sometimes.
Being asked for a precise 5-year financial forecast for an idea that's barely more than a concept – the 'demand for false precision' can be maddening.
Seeing 'innovation theatre' (like hackathons with no follow-through) get more attention than the disciplined, hard work of real innovation.
The 'not invented here' syndrome, where business units resist ideas that didn't originate internally, even if they're good.
When a high-risk, high-reward project you've tracked carefully ultimately fails, and you still feel a bit responsible, even though you flagged the risks.

What this role does not give you

Direct people management responsibilities (that comes later).
Full autonomy over strategic direction or large budgets (you're supporting those decisions).
The glamour of launching a product (you're more behind-the-scenes, making sure the right products *can* be launched).
A purely routine, predictable work schedule (things change quickly in innovation).

6Who you work with

You're the backbone of our innovation data. Your accuracy and attention to detail directly impact the quality of strategic decisions made further up the chain. You ensure that our innovation investments are based on reliable information, helping us avoid costly mistakes and ensuring we're always looking for the next big thing. Get it wrong, and we could be chasing the wrong ideas or missing crucial trends.

Inside the business

Senior Innovation Portfolio Manager (your direct boss)
Business Unit Innovation Leads (the people bringing ideas)
Product Management teams (who might take on innovation projects)
Finance analysts (who'll ask you for data)
Marketing teams (who'll want to know what's coming next)

Outside the business

N/A (this role is mostly internal-facing)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

At least 2 years of experience in an analytical, project coordination, or strategy support role, ideally within a corporate environment.
Demonstrable experience with data entry, data integrity checks, and basic reporting using tools like Excel or a BI dashboard.
A proven ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both in writing and verbally, with various internal teams.
Experience working with cross-functional teams, even if in a supporting capacity, to gather information or coordinate tasks.
A genuine interest in innovation, new technologies, and how businesses grow through new ideas. You should be naturally curious about 'what's next'.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Data Visualisation & Storytelling

As the portfolio grows and becomes more complex, simply pulling data won't be enough. You'll need to build more sophisticated, interactive dashboards that tell a clear story about portfolio health, risks, and opportunities. This means moving beyond basic charts to genuinely insightful visualisations.

Dashboard Design Principles · Interactive Visualisations · Data Storytelling · Connecting Diverse Data Sources

This week: Spend time exploring advanced Tableau dashboards online. What makes them effective? What stories do they tell?
This month: Take an online course on advanced Tableau features, focusing on LOD expressions and dashboard actions.
Month 2: Propose and build one new, interactive dashboard for a specific aspect of the innovation portfolio that currently relies on static reports.
Month 3: Get feedback from your Senior Manager and other stakeholders on your new dashboard. Iterate and improve based on their input.

Quick win: Start by identifying one existing static report you produce regularly. Brainstorm how you could turn it into a simple, interactive Tableau dashboard. Even a small improvement makes a difference.

Basic Data Modelling & Scenario Planning

As you progress, you'll be asked to do more than just input data into Anaplan; you'll need to understand how those models are built and even start to create simpler ones yourself. This means moving from running pre-defined scenarios to designing your own, especially for early-stage project valuation.

Financial Modelling Fundamentals · Sensitivity Analysis · Scenario Planning (Basic) · Data Structure for Modelling

This week: Review existing Anaplan models with your Senior Manager. Ask them to walk you through how different parts are built and connected.
This month: Take an online course on basic financial modelling in Excel, focusing on building simple revenue and cost models.
Month 2: Try to build a very simple financial model for a hypothetical early-stage innovation idea, including a few key assumptions and outputs.
Month 3: Present your simple model to your Senior Manager for feedback. Discuss how it could be improved or integrated into our existing tools.

Quick win: When running scenarios in Anaplan, don't just accept the outputs. Ask yourself: 'What if this assumption changed by 10%? How would that impact the outcome?' Start thinking critically about the inputs.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Attend industry webinars or conferences focused on corporate innovation, venture building, or strategic portfolio management. Stay curious about what others are doing.
Take online courses in advanced Excel modelling, Tableau dashboard design, or an introduction to Python for data analysis. These will boost your technical skills.
Read books or articles on innovation frameworks like 'The Lean Startup,' 'Jobs-to-be-Done,' or 'Crossing the Chasm.' Keep your knowledge fresh.
Seek out opportunities to shadow senior colleagues in strategy or innovation to understand their decision-making processes and challenges.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are already changing how we summarise information, draft communications, and even do initial research. Being able to 'talk' to these tools effectively will be a massive productivity booster. Analysts who figure this out will outproduce peers 3:1.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are already changing how we summarise information, draft communications, and even do initial research. Being able to 'talk' to these tools effectively will be a massive productivity booster. Analysts who figure this out will outproduce peers 3:1.

Effective Prompting
Context Windows & Token Limits
Output Validation
Basic API Usage (Conceptual)

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Three Horizons Model
Real Options Analysis (ROA) Concepts
Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework
Stage-Gate Governance Principles
Portfolio Balancing & Visualisation
Lean Startup Methodology (Awareness)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
Innovation Portfolio Analyst (L1)
1-2 years
Skills to master
- Data entry and integrity, basic reporting, understanding of innovation processes, effective internal communication.
You're ready to move on when
- Consistently delivers accurate and timely reports.
- Proactively identifies and resolves minor data discrepancies.
- Demonstrates a solid grasp of our innovation stage-gate process.
- Receives positive feedback on support provided to project teams.
2
Business Analyst / Project Coordinator (related department)
2-3 years
Skills to master
- Gathering requirements, project planning and tracking, stakeholder communication, data analysis, process documentation.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully managed multiple small to medium-sized projects.
- Proven ability to translate business needs into clear requirements.
- Strong organisational skills with attention to detail.
- Demonstrates an interest in strategic initiatives and innovation.
3
Financial Analyst (early career)
2-4 years
Skills to master
- Financial modelling, scenario analysis, budgeting, data interpretation, presenting financial insights.
You're ready to move on when
- Proficient in Excel modelling and financial reporting.
- Understands key financial metrics (NPV, IRR, ROI).
- Can clearly explain complex financial data to non-finance audiences.
- Shows curiosity about the strategic implications of financial decisions.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey as an Innovation Portfolio Manager is just the beginning. This role offers a unique vantage point across our entire business, giving you exposure to diverse challenges and opportunities. We're excited to see where you take it, and we'll support you in building a career that's both challenging and incredibly rewarding.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Innovation Portfolio Manager is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

Start free and meet yours

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Encourage innovation in your teamLevel 3

Applied to your work in Innovation Portfolio Manager

By completing this unit, learners will develop the skills to encourage innovation within their team, demonstrating appropriate behaviours and applying relevant general, industry, and context-specific knowledge.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Innovation Portfolio Manager

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Data Integrity in Portfolio SystemsThe accuracy and completeness of project data (status, budget, resources, next steps) within our innovation management tools.If we audit 100 data points in Aha! or Jira Align, you'll have fewer than 1 error. This means project statuses are current, budget numbers match what Finance says, and key dates are correct.>99% accuracy
Reporting Timeliness for Stage-Gate MeetingsEnsuring all necessary pre-read materials for smaller, routine stage-gate review meetings are prepared and distributed on time.For a Tuesday morning gate meeting, the full pre-read pack (project summary, financial overview, next steps) is in attendees' inboxes by Friday morning, ready for them to review over the weekend.100% of materials distributed 48 hours in advance
Initial Idea Assessment ThroughputThe number of new innovation ideas you take from initial submission through to a first-pass assessment (e.g., DVF check, basic market sizing).In Q1, you'll have taken 22 new ideas, each submitted by a different business unit, and put them through our initial screening process, documenting your findings and recommendations for the Senior Manager.Complete 20+ initial idea assessments per quarter

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Innovation Portfolio Manager to Senior Innovation Portfolio Manager (L3), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 3 · in progressAI Fluency→ Senior Innovation Portfolio Manager (L3)→ your design

Where this takes you

Your journey as an Innovation Portfolio Manager is just the beginning. This role offers a unique vantage point across our entire business, giving you exposure to diverse challenges and opportunities. We're excited to see where you take it, and we'll support you in building a career that's both challenging and incredibly rewarding.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration

Innovation Portfolio Manager

Three Horizons Model
Real Options Analysis (ROA) Concepts
Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) Framework
Stage-Gate Governance Principles
Portfolio Balancing & Visualisation
Lean Startup Methodology (Awareness)

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Innovation Portfolio Manager is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Senior Innovation Portfolio Manager (L3)
3-5 years in current role
This is the most common and natural next step. You'll move from managing a subset of the portfolio and supporting processes to owning entire workstreams and leading more complex gate reviews for specific business units.
- Designing and refining portfolio governance frameworks.
- Leading complex cross-functional innovation initiatives.
- Developing and defending 'kill' recommendations for projects.
- More sophisticated financial modelling for innovation valuation.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, a lot of the 'grunt work' in portfolio management—chasing data, drafting summaries, initial research—can be a time sink. But what if you could offload a big chunk of that? We're not talking about replacing you; we're talking about giving you a superpower. Imagine reclaiming hours every week to focus on the truly strategic, interesting parts of your job.

We're building an AI Productivity Hub specifically for roles like yours. It's designed to automate the repetitive, data-heavy tasks that slow you down, allowing you to focus on analysis, stakeholder engagement, and making smart recommendations. Here's a glimpse of how AI can transform your daily work as an Innovation Portfolio Manager:

Portfolio Health Monitor

An AI agent continuously scans data in Aha!, Jira Align, and Anaplan. It automatically flags projects that are stalled, over budget, or have inconsistent status reports. It'll then draft a weekly 'Portfolio Risks' summary, giving you an instant overview of where to focus your attention. No more manual digging through spreadsheets!

Trend & Hypothesis Analyzer

Use NLP models to quickly sift through internal documents—think customer support tickets, sales call transcripts, and internal market research. This AI can identify emerging 'Jobs-to-be-Done' (JTBD) and help you validate (or invalidate) early-stage project hypotheses. It's like having a research assistant that can read thousands of documents in minutes.

Automated Diligence Scout

When a new idea lands, an AI research agent can conduct initial market sizing, competitive landscape analysis, and technology scouting. It'll generate a standardised 2-page summary brief for you, giving you a head start on your initial assessments. Imagine getting a solid first draft of your due diligence in minutes, not hours.

Governance Comms Assistant

Ever dread drafting those stage-gate review presentations or executive summaries? AI can help! It'll pull structured data and metrics directly from Tableau and Anaplan to draft initial versions of these documents, or even those tricky 'project kill' notifications. You'll spend less time writing and more time refining the message.

Common questions

How do you become an Innovation Portfolio Manager?

Common routes in include Innovation Portfolio Analyst (L1) (1-2 years), Business Analyst / Project Coordinator (related department) (2-3 years) and Financial Analyst (early career) (2-4 years). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can an Innovation Portfolio Manager progress to?

This role can lead on to Senior Innovation Portfolio Manager (L3) (3-5 years in current role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is an Innovation Portfolio Manager in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 3 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for an Innovation Portfolio Manager?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows an Innovation Portfolio Manager, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 8 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming an Innovation Portfolio Manager: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan of nine units, ninety credits, each one an Ofqual-regulated unit the learner can tick or untick before starting. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

Start free No commitment. See your first steps free.

15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 3

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Corporate Strategy

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll build here—strategic thinking, data analysis, stakeholder influence, and understanding innovation processes—are highly transferable. You could move into broader corporate strategy roles, product management leadership, or even venture capital and corporate development within other industries. Innovation is everywhere, so your expertise will be in demand.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Innovation Portfolio Manager

What's rising in its place

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

Innovation Portfolio Analyst (L1)

Business Analyst / Project Coordinator (related department)

Financial Analyst (early career)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Senior Innovation Portfolio Manager (L3)

Where AI is starting to help

Portfolio Health Monitor

Trend & Hypothesis Analyzer

Automated Diligence Scout

Governance Comms Assistant

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.