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Portfolio Analyst

Posted 5 Days Ago
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Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Mid level
Remote or Hybrid
Hiring Remotely in United Kingdom
Mid level
Support Product Portfolio Leadership by providing data, reports, insights and commentary on portfolio health. Drive portfolio reporting, cost management, risk and dependency tracking, liaise with Finance, and maintain roadmaps, value tracking and status documentation to deliver business benefits.
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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
  • Build positive relationships with Product Portfolio Leadership Team and provide data, reports, insight, and commentary into Product health (delivery, efficiency, stability, security, costs, and value/benefits).
  • Actively champion ways to simplify, automate and continuously improve portfolio-level reporting of delivery health, cost management and value/benefits realisation.
  • Supervise progress against key achievements, approvals, handling key risks, issues & dependencies and produce Product/Portfolio performance reports. Analyse and interpret the metrics, costs, and value data to identify exceptions/ areas where action/improvement is needed and highlight these.
  • Ensure costs are led effectively through close partnership with the respective Finance business partner. Support with the communication and coordination of key financial timelines, linkage with BSC Finance to conduct back-end finance processes and provide the required artefacts that enable teams to track their resources effectively.
  • Own and run Portfolio documentation including roadmaps / value tracking / status reports in order to manage the portfolio successfully and deliver business benefits.
Who you are
  • Over 3 yrs experience in PMO roles across multiple products/programmes, including managing costs and delivery health.
  • Excellent analytical skills including financial literacy, excel and Power BI.
  • Strong communication, facilitation, co-ordination, decision making and partner management skills.
  • Experience of agile ways of working.
  • Knowledge of Agile portfolio/ team tools like Jira & Confluence.
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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