Every week we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. Brilliant customer experiences at this kind of pace, require fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers shop with us. And in this area of our business, we help to make sure that happens.

By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm, our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to make our customers lives easier. We keep our warehouses and stores operating smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our customers, is important to us.

As Portfolio Manager, you’ll play a key role in enabling Sainsbury’s Tech to run with world class efficiency. You’ll bring together and have oversight for the domain and ensure that our performance measurement is managed effectively, proactively providing intelligence to support our strategic plans.

Having a keen eye for data, you’ll be able to interpret multiple data sources and provide insight that enables effective decisions to be made. You’ll look across the domain, be an influencer, and build great relationships to become a trusted partner for our product teams.

With the support of our Portfolio Leads, you’ll guide your team to deliver great outcomes and ensure consistency. With the drive to keep connected and move at the fast pace of a successful tech domain, you’ll always keep our customers at the heart of everything you do.

More about the role

• You’ll manage the day-to-day portfolio across the domain, bringing together and communicating the previous, current and future planned activity within the domain
• You’ll undertake analysis and providing financial, people, portfolio value and process insight which is actionable
• Measure performance across the domain, providing intelligence to support strategic plans
• Support joined up portfolio prioritisation, planning and visualisation so that portfolio priorities are optimised for value
• Provide financial forecast excellence, from the initiative to the domain level, bringing together a single view of cash (Opex and Capex) to ensure that the TCO is understood and decisions are being made, taking into account People, Capex and Opex
• Undertaking of governance and assurance, through Product Council and providing an independent view of the Portfolio
• You’ll partner our Product Teams in the identification and measurement of value delivered through their investments
• Support Lean Agile Portfolio Management processes, tools and techniques to drive collaborative prioritisation and planning
• Provide visibility of key dependencies across the portfolio, while encouraging Engineering Team ownership
• Lead the allocation of the Portfolio Team to tasks and assignments within the portfolio

More about you

• Experienced working with IT delivery teams and using reporting/project management tools such as Planview and/or MS Planner or similar.
• You’ll have an up-to-date understanding of Portfolio Management processes and experience of effective/lean governance in large and complex organisations
• Experience and knowledge of Portfolio Management in an Agile Product environment
• Principles of financial management/control in a multi-divisional organisation
• Knowledge of data management, visualisation and reporting best practice
• Knowledge of the tech and retail marketplace and trends
• Demonstrable experience of leading teams and effectively in managing across a matrix
• Good financial capability, experience of forecasting and management of budgets
• Familiarity with Lean Agile working practices
• Be able to drive own team’s workload and manage multiple demands, escalating as appropriate for any conflicting priorities

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

• Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
• Holiday allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals