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Our Manufacturing teams are enabled by specialist functional support from Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Planning & Control, HS&E, Portfolio Management, Project Management and Lean Improvement. Together we are a critical Civil Aerospace delivery organisation focussed on safety, quality, cost and delivery, enabling our value streams to optimise P&L and manage risks.\nThe Portfolio Executive is accountable for co-ordinating the effective and efficient operation of portfolio management practices. Providing leadership and reporting of the collation of demand, prioritisation and control of projects and programmes, in line with the strategic and operational objectives of the business. Supporting the business leadership team through appropriate portfolio governance, they will ensure that a consistent approach to benefits management is applied across the portfolio and that benefits realisation is optimised from the organisation’s investment in change.\nWhat you will be doing:\nLead the Manufacturing Operations portfolio, integrating strategy, delivery, affordability, risk, and investment decisions into a coherent forward-looking plan that supports business objectives and operational priorities.\nOwn the Engineering Spend and Capital budgets for Manufacturing Operations, ensuring alignment, governance, and executive approval across the Five-Year Plan (5YP) and other business planning cycles.\nDrive portfolio governance and prioritisation processes, balancing capacity, resources, funding, and business risk to ensure the highest-value initiatives are delivered within affordability constraints.\nProvide executive-level insight and challenge on capital investment, engineering spends, resource demand, and benefit realisation, translating complex information into clear recommendations that support informed decision-making.\nCoordinate stakeholders across Manufacturing Operations, Engineering, Finance, Procurement, and Programme teams to align plans, resolve conflicts, manage trade-offs, and deliver integrated business outcomes.\nMaintain an enterprise-wide view of operational, supply chain, and business continuity risks, ensuring portfolio interventions, investment decisions, and recovery actions support delivery commitments and long-term resilience.\nPreferred requirements:\nStrong ability to take a holistic business view, ensuring alignment across multiple processes, functions, and performance metrics.\nExcellent analytical capability, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify meaningful insights, and develop evidence-based recommendations.\nComfortable operating in highly ambiguous environments and navigating across multiple business processes and organisational priorities.\nExceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior leaders and cross-functional teams through formal governance structures.\nStrong programme and portfolio management expertise, with the ability to establish robust frameworks, controls, and delivery disciplines.\nCommercially aware, with experience managing budgets, investment decisions, affordability challenges, and business case development.\nCollaborative, resilient, and pragmatic.\nExperience of capital investment projects and/or operational budget management would be beneficial.\nWhy join Rolls-Royce?\nAt Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.\nBy joining Rolls-Royce, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.\nRegional benefits:\nGenerous Annual Leave\nRetirement Savings through the Rolls-Royce Retirement Savings Trust\nGroup Life Assurance provides for a lump sum benefit if you die whilst employed by Rolls-Royce\nGroup Income Protection provides an income in the event that you are unable to work due to illness or injury\nYour Shares: Matched is a simple way to own Rolls-Royce shares and invest in our future, together. 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