Portfolio Management Specialist

1 month ago

Bury, Borough of Bury, United Kingdom JD Sports Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Portfolio Management Specialist to join our Enterprise PMO team at JD Sports. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in supporting the delivery and enhancement of our PMO Service Catalogue assurance, governance, and support services to our projects and programs across the JD change portfolio.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform governance, assurance, and support activities at portfolio level to ensure effective processes are in place.
  • Work with Enterprise PMO colleagues to drive increased maturity in PMO and project delivery processes across JD.
  • Collaborate with Group Transformation Delivery team members to establish effective working relationships and support the production of quality outputs.
  • Support the Enterprise PMO Service Catalogue of portfolio governance, assurance, and support services to the JD change portfolio.
  • Provide support to Group Transformation Leadership and develop and maintain performance information to show portfolio performance.
  • Support the operation of portfolio processes within the Group Transformation change portfolio.
  • Support portfolio governance, inputs, and action tracking.
  • Support portfolio health checks to assess overall health.
  • Support portfolio level risks and issues and assessments to identify themes for upward reporting.
  • Support the administration of the Group Transformation new project demand backlog and prioritization process.
  • Support the maintenance of central lists of proposed, active, and completed projects across Enterprise PMO as required.
  • Respond to information requests to ensure stakeholders have accurate and timely information.
  • Assist with the operation and running of defined governance forums and routines, and assist in the production of content for Exec level portfolio governance meetings.
  • Coordinate, collect, and summarize portfolio reporting to ensure updates are received on a regular and timely basis.
Requirements
  • 2+ years' experience as a PMO Analyst or Project Support Specialist within a portfolio office.
  • Experience of working with project management tools and methodologies to identify improvement opportunities.
  • Experience of applying portfolio level governance methodologies.
  • Experience of preparing comprehensive and consistent project documentation and following processes.
About JD Sports

JD Sports is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors, and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues across 3,400 stores in over 30 markets around the world. We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognize the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive, irrespective of their background or identity.

We offer a range of benefits to our employees, including incremental holiday allowance, staff discount on qualifying purchases, exclusive colleague bike discount scheme, discounted gym membership, personal development opportunities, and access to apprenticeships and accredited qualifications.

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