Lead People Portfolio Manager

7 days ago

Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Tesco Full time
About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Strategic People Portfolio Lead to join our team at Tesco. As a key member of our People Leadership Team, you will be responsible for leading the definition, delivery, governance, and maturity of our annual People Plan. You will partner with Group PLT to deliver the annual people plan through the group people portfolio, governance cycle, and planning processes. This role is essential to enabling the People Leadership Team to make strategic, informed, and timely decisions and bringing a holistic view of the work across the People Team in all markets, with a focus on balancing projects/change with BAU to optimise delivery within capacity. You will be responsible for championing the People Plan across the business and standing over internal and external reporting on behalf of the People Team.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Lead and drive maturity of People Planning & Portfolio team.
  2. Partner the Group PLT on governance of the Portfolio through facilitation of quarterly, two weekly Group PLT meetings and Big Room Planning.
  3. Be the central point of contact across People on the People Portfolio; working with stakeholders to keep a transparent and accurate view of the portfolio, using this insight and holistic perspective to update on progress, support internal reporting, steer prioritisation, and ensure joined-up delivery.
  4. Champion the People Plan and engage stakeholders across the people team, broader markets, and functional leadership teams on the portfolio, processes, and expectations of them.
  5. Owning process for setting, tracking, and performance against measures for in-year outcomes, with input from SMEs, People Strategy, and People Data to inform progress, impact, and prioritisation.
  6. Lead new work assessment process to make sure new work identified in-year has the right sponsorship, review, and resource allocated.
  7. Partner with People Finance planning manager to make sure the Portfolio reflects in-year financial performance against budget.
  8. Lead external reporting on behalf of People function, including accountability to review and engaging stakeholders on new reporting requests.
  9. Work with People Strategy Manager to align in-year plan with delivering long-term strategy ambition and linking our plans to broader business strategy, deliverables, and timelines.
  10. Partner with market people strategy and change teams, UK Business planning, functional, and market business planning teams to ensure alignment to broader business plan, timelines, and ensure dependencies in the Group People Plan are effectively managed.
  11. Oversee and lead development of standard and consistent process and tools to mature People Planning and Portfolio, including how we best prioritise based on scope, size, dependencies, compliance, capacity, and absorbability.
  12. Engage with and update risk, controls, and audit teams with input to risk register, group audits, etc.
Requirements
  1. People Team experience or significant passion for People.
  2. Experience of building and leveraging relationships.
  3. Experience of leading function-wide engagement.
  4. Experience working in a fast-paced, project environment.
  5. Programme/Portfolio experience.
  6. Line management experience.
  7. Stakeholder management and facilitation.
  8. Relationship building across different cultures.
  9. Managing ambiguity and prioritising in the context of changing or multiple priorities.
  10. Strategic business partnering.
  11. Strategic, analytics, and holistic thinking.
  12. Presentation and communication skills.
  13. Commercial acumen.
What's in it for you
We're all about the little helps. That's why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you - both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more
  1. Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
  2. Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
  3. Private medical insurance.
  4. 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year's service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
  5. Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of, and for the planet.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we're a place where Everyone's Welcome. We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here .
We're a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate, and innovate.

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