Portfolio Manager (End to End)

One of our transformation objectives is to 'build a product engine that delivers profitable sales growth globally.' As a resilient retail Change Specialist with effective Merchandising/Buying/Sourcing/Manufacturing (Factories), Planning experience, you will be responsible for mapping, planning, managing, and delivering the roll-out of new transformation/change Sourcing, Buying & Capacity Planning processes and capabilities.

Priorities will lie across the 'Supplier Relationships and Capabilities' value stream within the Home and Clothing Transformation. This stream focuses on introducing processes, data, and reporting tools to make strategic and operational buying/sourcing and planning decisions, improving our end-to-end value chain strengthening our strategic suppliers' relationships, enhancing our suppliers, product design, innovation, and sourcing/planning capabilities.

We are looking for an established Portfolio Manager to join the team. You will be responsible for E2E project portfolio, balancing capacity and demand, ensuring alignment across programmes including owning cross programme dependencies/connections. Responsible for sequencing work aligned to business priorities, standardising the approach, surfacing the key risks and dependencies. The role is ultimately accountable for delivering the strategic objectives of the business through a balanced and strongly aligned portfolio of programmes.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever-evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include:

• You will develop a good understanding of all our programmes and projects, gather information on their critical path and what dependencies they have on each other, and put together a clear roadmap to feed into the governance.
• You will optimise and run the Portfolio level governance, engaging our wider stakeholders by collecting, analysing and presenting progress information.
• Through your honest and collaborative approach, you will ensure the leadership team are fully behind the portfolio, are actively championing portfolio management and empowering a capable team.
• Ensure the C&H project management framework, stage gate process and templates are clear, with supporting guidance and best practice examples.
• You will be the governance keeper for E2E guiding the Programme Managers throughout relevant process (business case submission, CRs, PIRs, etc...) & ensure best practices are followed.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• Strong Portfolio / Programme Management Experience.
• Leadership in ambiguous / ever-changing environments.
• Effective stakeholder relationships and strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Change management.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted, and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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