Portfolio Management Specialist

2 months ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom M&S Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Portfolio Management Specialist to join our team at M&S. As a key member of our organization, you will play a critical role in driving Agile Portfolio Management practices and continuous improvement across our business.

Key Responsibilities
  • Champion Agile Portfolio Management: Drive the adoption and implementation of Agile Portfolio Management practices, ensuring consistency and standard methodology approaches are used across the organization.
  • Develop Strong Partnerships: Establish and maintain strong, trusted partnerships with Portfolio Leadership Teams, providing insight and challenge across all areas of Portfolio Management.
  • Operate the Portfolio Model: Develop and maintain the Portfolio model, providing standard reports, insightful data, and recommendations to the Chief Technology Officer/Chief Product Officer (CTO/CPO) to drive action and improvements.
  • Challenge and Improve: Challenge trends across Project/Product Health at a Portfolio level, identifying common areas of improvement and ensuring continual improvement plans are in place.
  • Lead the Supplier/M&S PMO Team: Matrix lead the Supplier/M&S PMO team to ensure the production of standardized, accurate, timely, and insightful data that underpins Portfolio operations and governance processes and reporting.
  • Support Op Planning and Investment Prioritization: Support the CTO/CPOs and Finance Managers in Op Planning and investment prioritization processes, understanding the strategic direction and transformation themes for the Portfolios.
  • Assure Quality and Probability: Support the CTO/CPOs and their Portfolio team to assure the quality, accuracy, and probability of business units, with a focus on technology change and ongoing costs, overall Portfolio do-ability, and benefits realization.
  • Support Quarterly Planning: Actively support the Portfolios during Quarterly Planning, reviewing dependencies to ensure ownership, and identifying areas to include on the CI/Flow backlog.
  • Operationalize Coaching and Learning Plans: Work with Agile coaches to operationalize coaching and learning plans as agreed with the Portfolio Management, Heads Of, and CTO/CPOs to drive flow through Agile ways of working.
  • Set Quarterly Objectives: Work as part of the portfolio leadership team to set the next quarterly objectives.
  • Inspect and Adapt: Conduct PIR review of quarterly results against quarterly objectives and lessons learned.
  • Facilitate Platform Prioritization: Facilitate platform prioritization in partnership with Product, Delivery, and Engineering to give Partners clear trade-off decisions and clarity on capacity.
  • Develop and Share Agile Standards: Take an active role in the Community of Practices to develop, share, and embed portfolio-level Agile standard methodology across M&S.
  • Provide Quality Assurance: Provide quality assurance for objectives and ensure teams are supported in following standards in Portfolio areas.
  • Stay Up-to-Date with Industry Trends: Keep up to date with industry trends relating to Business Agility, Product, and DevOps and maintain an involvement in industry Agile communities to continuously bring new methods and ideas to the organization.
Requirements
  • Job Knowledge: Specialist skills, experiences, qualifications, specific systems or practices relevant to the role, latest function-specific knowledge.
  • Business Knowledge: Level of commercial awareness, economic, commercial, political experience, industry-specific knowledge to differentiate M&S from competitors.
  • Problem-Solving: Analytical skills, ability to direct, lead, and deliver solutions that go beyond existing ways of doing things.
  • People and Leadership Skills: Communications, leadership, and talent development skills.
Essential Qualifications
  • Over 5 years' experience in technology portfolio management practices across multiple areas, including Agile PMO.
  • Excellent analytical skills, including financial literacy.
  • Ability to work in a matrixed management environment and use influence, logic, and negotiation skills to achieve outcomes and improvements.
  • Self-starter who is able to work independently, including driving an agenda of continuous improvements from a broad range of Partners.
  • Highly organized and disciplined approach to work where they are able to manage multiple activities at any one point in time.
  • Ability to work with a range of third-party suppliers.
  • Knowledge and active interest in technology trends.
  • Experience of delivering change in processes and systems to improve ways of working.
  • Proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and other reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).
Desirable Qualifications
  • Prior experience working in the Retail Industry.
  • Strong expertise implementing Agile tooling.

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