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Portfolio Manager
Job Reference tesco/TP/14118400/851608
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What’s in it for you
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but are not limited to:
- Annual bonus scheme
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 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
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
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About the role
We are looking for a driven Portfolio Manager! You will be part of the Governance & Standards Office within the Finance Change Portfolio Management team.
The Governance & Standards Office sets & maintains consistent standards for the portfolio to adhere to. This includes, but is not limited to delivery lifecycle methodology, ensuring effective governance, audit & quality assurance standards and knowledge & information management.
You will be responsible for
- Ensure consistent application of the Finance Change delivery methodology across the end-to-end delivery of programmes and projects within the portfolio, so that lasting change is delivered effectively and efficiently
- Undertake auditing and health checks on projects and programmes within the portfolio
- Support the design of governance structures for the portfolio, ensuring governance is simple and flexible whilst enabling the right level of decision making and control.
- Organise and facilitate portfolio-level governance forums as appropriate
- Continual review of governance including PMO processes and the overarching methodology to ensure they remain fit for purpose in a changing environment
- Utilise stakeholder management skills to ensure colleagues are following appropriate governance and processes
- Communicate and train stakeholders on new or revised ways of working
- Develop best practice for new processes
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You will need
- Excellent knowledge of Project, Programme and Portfolio governance frameworks
- Experience of different project/programme techniques
- High level exposure to portfolio, project or programme reporting
- Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills
- Ability to work with ambiguity and uncertainty, to juggling change priorities and manage workload efficiently
Nice to have:
- Formal Portfolio/Project Management Qualification desirable (e.g. Prince2, MSP, APM, Agile, P3O or MoP)
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.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. 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. Please talk to us about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.