Summary
As a Strategic Portfolio Analyst in Digital & Technology, you’ll help teams understand portfolio performance and deliver strategic priorities effectively. You’ll provide clear reporting and insight across delivery, costs, risks and value, helping leaders make informed decisions.
Working as a trusted partner to Portfolio Managers and teams, you’ll strengthen portfolio practices, improve transparency and identify opportunities to simplify and automate how performance is managed.
What's in it for you?
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing outstanding quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
What you'll do
- Analyse portfolio performance across delivery, costs, risks, dependencies and value, turning data into clear insights and recommended actions.
- Partner with Portfolio Managers, leadership teams and Finance to support effective planning, cost management and decision-making.
- Improve portfolio reporting by simplifying processes, increasing automation and maintaining accurate roadmaps, status reports and value-tracking information.
- Coordinate governance activities, planning events, reporting forums and team ceremonies, ensuring stakeholders have timely and reliable information.
- Collaborate across teams to identify dependencies, highlight risks and promote consistent portfolio management tools, standards and ways of working.
Who you are
- Experience in PMO or portfolio roles supporting multiple products or programmes, including delivery health and cost management.
- Able to analyse financial and performance data, with practical experience using Excel and Power BI.
- Comfortable working with Agile ways of working and portfolio tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- You bring clear communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across different teams and levels.
- Highly organised, with the ability to coordinate multiple priorities, collaborate with internal teams and external suppliers, and deliver effectively in a fast-moving environment.
Everyone's welcome
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re redefining, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re redefining how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process
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Skills Required
- Experience in PMO or portfolio roles supporting multiple products or programmes
- Experience with delivery health and cost management
- Ability to analyse financial and performance data
- Practical experience using Excel and Power BI
- Experience working with Agile ways of working
- Experience using portfolio tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Clear communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to build trusted relationships across teams and levels
- Strong organisation and ability to coordinate multiple priorities
- Ability to collaborate with internal teams and external suppliers
What We Do
At M&S, we're dedicated to being the most trusted retailer, prioritising quality and delivering value. Every day, we bring the magic of M&S to our customers, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us. For over a century, we've set the standard, doing the right thing and embracing innovation. Today, with over 65,000 colleagues serving 32 million customers globally, we're putting quality products at the heart of everything we do. Tomorrow holds boundless opportunities with us. We're pioneering digital innovation and shaping the future of retail where our values drive every action. We stay close to customers and colleagues, always curious and connected. Our decisions are bold, our actions ambitious. Transparency is paramount, with straightforward, honest communication. We're constantly innovating, always striving for the best. Our focus is on aiming higher and winning together, combined with wise financial decisions to secure our future. Join us at M&S to shape the future of retail.
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