Job Description:

As Portfolio Manager, you’ll play a key role in enabling Sainsbury’s Tech to run with world class efficiency. You’ll bring together and have oversight for the domain and ensure that our performance measurement is managed effectively, proactively providing intelligence to support our strategic plans.

Having a keen eye for data, you’ll be able to interpret multiple data sources and provide insight that enables effective decisions to be made. You’ll look across the domain, be an influencer, and build great relationships to become a trusted partner for our product teams.

With the support of our Portfolio Leads, you’ll guide your team to deliver great outcomes and ensure consistency. With the drive to keep connected and move at the fast pace of a successful tech domain, you’ll always keep our customers at the heart of everything you do.

Job Responsibilities:

• You’ll manage the day-to-day portfolio across the domain, bringing together and communicating the previous, current and future planned activity within the domain
• You’ll undertake analysis and providing financial, people, portfolio value and process insight which is actionable
• Measure performance across the domain, providing intelligence to support strategic plans
• Support joined up portfolio prioritisation, planning and visualisation so that portfolio priorities are optimised for value
• Provide financial forecast excellence, from the initiative to the domain level, bringing together a single view of cash (Opex and Capex) to ensure that the TCO is understood and decisions are being made, taking into account People, Capex and Opex
• Undertaking of governance and assurance, through Product Council and providing an independent view of the Portfolio
• You’ll partner our Product Teams in the identification and measurement of value delivered through their investments
• Support Lean Agile Portfolio Management processes, tools and techniques to drive collaborative prioritisation and planning
• Provide visibility of key dependencies across the portfolio, while encouraging Engineering Team ownership
• Lead the allocation of the Portfolio Team to tasks and assignments within the portfolio

Job Requirements:

• Experienced working with IT delivery teams and using reporting/project management tools such as Planview and/or MS Planner or similar.
• You’ll have an up-to-date understanding of Portfolio Management processes and experience of effective/lean governance in large and complex organisations
• Experience and knowledge of Portfolio Management in an Agile Product environment
• Principles of financial management/control in a multi-divisional organisation
• Knowledge of data management, visualisation and reporting best practice
• Knowledge of the tech and retail marketplace and trends
• Demonstrable experience of leading teams and effectively in managing across a matrix
• Good financial capability, experience of forecasting and management of budgets
• Familiarity with Lean Agile working practices
• Be able to drive own team’s workload and manage multiple demands, escalating as appropriate for any conflicting priorities

Job Details:

Company:  Sainsbury’s

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: London, England, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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