Retail Portfolio Manager

This is a key strategic role accountable for shaping, prioritising, and governing the retail change portfolio. As part of our Retail Operations & Tranformation Leadership Team, you will ensure initiatives are aligned to strategy, sequenced effectively, and supported by clear investment and decision-making frameworks.

You’ll own the single, integrated view of all retail change, bringing together demand from across the business and translating it into a clear portfolio roadmap. Your work will enable leaders to make informed decisions and trade-offs about what gets delivered, when, and why.

Importantly, this role focuses on governance and portfolio design—not execution—ensuring initiatives are well-defined, prioritised, and ready for successful rollout into stores.

• →Owning the end-to-end retail portfolio, providing a clear, integrated view of all initiatives impacting Retail
• →Shaping, prioritising and sequencing initiatives based on strategic alignment, value, risk, and capacity
• →Establishing and maintaining strong portfolio governance, decision forums, and stage-gate processes
• →Providing oversight of dependencies, risks, issues, and timelines across complex, interrelated initiatives
• →Managing portfolio financials including planning, forecasting, and value realisation
• →Ensuring initiatives entering the portfolio have strong business cases, clear outcomes, and defined sponsorship
• →Supporting executive decision-making through high-quality reporting, insights, and recommendations
• →Championing consistent portfolio standards, tools, and continuous improvement across the organisation

You’re a strategic thinker with strong portfolio or programme leadership experience, able to bring clarity and structure to complex environments.

To be successful, you’ll bring:

• Extensive experience in portfolio, programme, or project delivery within complex environments
• Strong knowledge of delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid, Lean, SAFe) and how to apply them pragmatically
• Experience establishing governance frameworks, standards, and stage-gate processes
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to link business cases, investment, and value realisation
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills across senior leaders and cross-functional teams
• Experience with delivery tools (e.g. Jira, Confluence, ADO) and portfolio reporting
• Ability to simplify complexity, provide clear insights, and enable confident decision-making