Portfolio Manager

Role overview:

Portfolio Manage
Waterloo - Hybrid Working
Full Time
Permanent
Grade 4


At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.

The Portfolio Manager will be responsible for supporting the PMO services across the Currys Transformation Portfolio (consisting of projects and programmes). They will support the Lead Portfolio Manager, Head of Portfolio, Strategic Change & Portfolio Director and Heads of Delivery to improve governance controls and processes across the Portfolio enabling successful delivery of Projects and Programmes to desired budget, quality on time.

Role overview:

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing the single source of truth across the portfolio using Planview, ensuring accurate and timely data to drive informed management decisions via consolidated reports, KPIs & dashboards.
• Provide overall Planview administration and support, including user management, data quality assurance, workflow configuration, and ongoing optimisation to enable PMO and delivery teams.
• Produce and maintain core reporting requirements across the portfolio for all key meetings and stakeholders, specifically leveraging Power BI to pull data from Planview and design/maintain dashboards tailored for Group Leadership Team, ExCo, and other business-wide audiences.
• Manage and drive data quality across the RAID management process, ensuring appropriate escalations and consolidating common themes using Planview as the system of record.
• Manage the Portfolio Roadmap and Plan, managing milestones, dependencies and change
• Managing overall Resource management process with Tech and working with resource managers to ensure resource demand vs capacity analysis and insight.
• Ensure there is robust Change Control across the portfolio, ensuring the upcoming changes are impacted and assessed appropriately against the Portfolio Plan focussed on Critical Path.
• Directly support material preparation and scheduling for fortnightly Currys Change Board (Project funding) and bi-weekly InvestCo (BaU funding).
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement across processes, creating efficiencies and best practices through coaching, training and development.
• Support the Lead Portfolio Manager in preparation and facilitation of all critical portfolio governance.
• Deliver ad-hoc reporting, control and portfolio management requests from Lead Portfolio Manager or Head of Portfolio as required.
• Support yearly delivery prioritisation and budgeting cycles, using Planview for scenario modelling and Power BI for data visualisation.
• Provide Portfolio support to Heads of Delivery as required.
• Undertake delivery assurance reviews with delivery and project managers as required.

Skills:

• Excellent ability to influence people at all levels across the organisation and outside, including negotiating and successfully facilitating joint decision making
• Ability to present effectively to senior management and communicate, both orally and in writing, with people at all levels across the organisation
• Strong analytical skills, able to identify highly complex critical issues and constructively challenge colleagues to improve programme delivery overall
• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with Planview, including system administration, reporting, and process optimisation
• Expertise in Power BI for data extraction from Planview, report development, dashboard creation, and business intelligence (including GLT and ExCo-level reporting)
• Exceptional organisation, prioritisation, and communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Resource management experience including demand vs capacity planning, analysis, and recommendations
• A positive, can-do attitude and proven ability to deliver cost effective solutions when met with difficult and challenging project impacting risks and issues
• Proficiency in Microsoft packages (Word, PowerPoint, Project, Excel)
• Can think on feet and learn quickly
• Collaborative
• Trustworthy and confidential

We know our people are the secret to our success. That's why we're always looking for ways to reward great work. You'll find a host of benefits designed to work for you, including:


Company Pension
Company Bonus
Private Medical

Why join us:

Join our team and we'll be with you every step of the way, helping you develop the career you want with new opportunities, on-going training and skills for life.

Not only can you shape your own future, but you can help take charge of ours too. As the biggest recycler and repairer of tech in the UK, we’re in a position to make a real impact on people and the planet.

Every voice has a space at our table and we're committed to making inclusion and diversity part of everything we do, including how we strengthen our workforce. We want to make sure you have a fair opportunity to show us your talents during our application process, so if you need any additional assistance with your application please email [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.