Portfolio Manager Our Transformation teams are right at the heart of what we do. Surrounded by some of the best Transformation specialists in the industry, you'll bring your own ideas to the business - helping to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team.
This role involves supporting a spectrum of enterprise portfolio activities, shaping the evolution of our organisation-wide portfolio and transformation roadmap. From strategic alignment to financial oversight, you'll be at the centre of planning, demand management, and governance. You will be accountable for the management of Primark's portfolio management processes for all transformation initiatives across the business. This will involve engaging with business stakeholders to define, prioritise and manage the portfolio of transformation programmes to drive optimal value for the organisation.
This role will be responsible for collating functional demands of transformation programmes within the business, to build an enterprise-wide portfolio and will lead the prioritisation and planning approaches as well as providing insights and tracking portfolio dependencies, issues and risks across the enterprise-wide portfolio.
What You'll Get The world is changing and it's important we support our colleagues. People are at the heart of what we do at Primark so it's essential we provide the right environment for you to perform at your best. That's why we offer benefits that put you first:
27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more.Flexible Working, opportunity for an early Friday finish, and a subsidised cafeteria.Primark Perks – Discounts with some local partner businesses to our offices. What You'll Do: In your role, you'll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here's a flavour of your day-to-day:
Management of Primark's portfolio management processes for all transformation initiatives across the business.Development of a clear, prioritised enterprise-wide portfolio and transformation roadmap, driving optimal value for the organisation ensuring the enterprise portfolio is aligned to the company's strategic goals.Captures, collates and prioritises the demand of transformation programmes in conjunction with business and technology stakeholders to build an effective portfolio.Oversight and management of prioritisation processes ensuring portfolio is aligned to strategic priorities and investments.Support and facilitate business stakeholders in quality decision making. Responsible for creating periodic performance and progress reports focusing on value, strategic alignment and business outcomes through regular reporting cycles and annual and quarterly planning cycles.Track dependencies, issues, and risks across the enterprise-wide portfolio.Develops and maintains ongoing insights and monitoring of progress, demand, finances, and benefits ensuring the overall investment of the Portfolio is within the planned timeline and budget. What You'll Bring Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:
Significant Portfolio Management and/or business planning experience gained through several complex and varied environments.Educated to degree level and have at least 7-10 years' experience in a PMO/Portfolio environment.Formal Project Management or Portfolio Management qualification (PfMP/PMP/IPMA/PRINCE 2 Practitioner).Experience of working with teams using a wide variety of change frameworks and methodologies (traditional waterfall and iterative/agile delivery and process improvement methodologies).Be a highly motivated self-starter with a can-do attitude.Excellent communication and engagement skills.Experience of using PPM Tools e.g., Planview. Ready? Good - because we can't wait to see what you can offer. You'll be joining a team of diverse, passionate, and talented individuals where you'll truly belong, collaborating on projects that will shape the future of our industry. If you're excited about this role but don't meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or another one, and our recruitment team can determine where your skills may fit in at Primark.
Apply to be part of our future and we'll help you develop yours.
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