Senior Portfolio Manager

6 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Burberry Full time
Job Overview

Burberry is seeking a highly skilled Senior Portfolio Manager to join our team. As a key member of our IT organization, you will be responsible for the overall health and governance of our IT portfolio.

Key Responsibilities
  • Create and lead a portfolio strategy across the tower, ensuring the appropriate prioritization, focus, and authorized funding is made available.
  • Support the VP IT, Customer & Data in function-wide initiatives.
  • Collaborate with key business function and IT stakeholders to design, document, publish, and socialize a standard project and programme management framework.
  • Define the necessary programme and project management templates and artefacts.
  • Partner closely with the IT Operations team to develop and drive process improvements, automation, and impactful partnering with IT Towers.
  • Ensure that internal and third-party Programme and Project Managers adhere to the published delivery method.
  • Develop and maintain a centralized governance approach to ensure that programme and project decisions are made collaboratively, and with the necessary representation from business functions and IT towers.
  • Ensure alignment of programmes and projects to Burberry business and IT strategies.
  • Identify cross-project risk and collaborate with Programme Managers and Project Managers to identify risk acceptance, risk sharing, risk mitigation, or risk avoidance actions.
  • Participate in programme and project governance board meetings, support decision-making, and assist with programme and project escalations.
  • Lead programme and project status and performance reporting sessions, and collate updates for senior leadership meetings.
  • Collate and report on portfolio financials, including initial estimates, budgets, and forecasts.
  • Liaise with IT tower leads and business functional stakeholders to continuously review the performance of the portfolio.
  • Facilitate quarterly Cross-tower Portfolio Summits to support cross-tower demand management and collaboration.
  • Ensure that lessons learned are defined, documented, and shared in a consistent and repeatable manner, to ensure continuous improvement and to prevent recurrence of common issues.
  • Develop and lead training sessions and activities to ensure that project resources are consistently supported in their roles, and that they have access to the right tools, data, and people.
  • Shape IT's approach to governing agile/continuous delivery projects and how this differs from the current waterfall-based governance methodology.
  • Manage the IT Portfolio team.
Requirements
  • A proven track record of senior stakeholder management.
  • A track record in leading projects and programmes teams in dynamic and fast-paced environments.
  • A broad background in IT across various sectors, ideally with some exposure to retail.
  • Possess a highly developed communication skillset with the ability to manage conflicting views and opinions, at a senior level as strategy is being developed.
  • They should have a background in managing cross-functional projects.
  • Experience in IT Portfolio Management.
  • Experience in Project/Programme Management.
  • Knowledge of any PM methodologies such as PMP, APM, etc. is advantageous.
  • Good organisational skills and effective communication.
  • Proactive, takes initiative, and can work independently managing competing priorities and areas of focus.
  • Collaboratively work towards a positive outcome with others across the IT.
  • Ensures the well-being of individuals.
  • Good attention to detail.
  • Interest in technology.

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