Planning PMO Manager

hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury's DTD to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role.

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

In a Nutshell

This role leads Portfolio Planning - orchestrating the Quarterly Portfolio Planning Process, maintaining an aggregated view of the Portfolio Plan & Cross-Portfolio dependencies and interpreting planning data to draw out actionable insights and identify contentions.

Experience in planning using the Portfolio toolsets such as Atlassian (JIRA, JPD) and Planview will be an advantage

This role will work within the Portfolio Office to drive the PMO function as a Service to all Programmes and change activities. The role will focus on the core deliverables of our Operating model, driving efficiencies of processes and tooling, consistency where needed and pursuing the objective of ‘just enough’ governance.

What I Am Accountable For

• Managing and ensuring adherence to appropriate and useful delivery methodologies and gate processes to drive the ‘just enough’ governance objective
• Driving efficiency of processes to ensure all activities add value and continual improvements identified
• Managing one or more core PMO functions: RAIDD management, Planning, Governance, Dependencies and Reporting, ensuring services are robust, adding value and continually inspected for opportunities for improvement
• Supporting on tooling evaluation, decisions and roll out working with change enablement team to land internal changes robustly
• Supporting the provision of tooling and processes to support a full ‘end-to-end’ view of all Sainsbury’s tech strategic initiatives to improve visibility and inform decision making through the provision of actionable status information, time plans, risks and interdependencies
• Facilitating forums, ensuring the governance framework is upheld and adapted as needed
• Managing and monitoring KPI’s to measure performance and progress to plans at all levels of aggregation
• Conducting project audits, share lessons learned, and highlight key areas of interest
• Represent PMO and technology supporting other divisions with PMO best practice and set up
  
  

What I Need To Know Essential

• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification.
• Experience in a PMO manager or lead role
• Proven leadership and team management experience
• Strong track record in programme/portfolio management within a retail or similarly fast-paced environment, with a solid understanding of managing shifting deadlines, multiple initiatives, and critical paths
• A highly organised, process driven approach to managing key Governance and Planning artefacts
• Experienced in data analysis and report preparation
• Proficient in using PPM/portfolio management tools
• Stakeholder management
  
  

Desirable

• Retail experience
  
  

What I Need To Show

• Proven ability to lead PMO functions
• A positive approach to change
• A solution-focused mindset with creativity and adaptability
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to navigate complex corporate governance environments
• Influencing skills
  
  

Our Valued Behaviours are our common DNA that every colleague should live by and provide the benchmark for how we deliver our goals/individual contribution, and how we relate to other colleagues in the organisation.

Own It

• Do what you say you’ll do
• Don’t walk past a problem
  
  

Make It Better

• Improve things for your customer
• Spot opportunities to simplify
  
  

Be Human

• Walk in the shoes of your colleagues and customers
• Show care and respect to everyone In addition to role modelling the Valued Behaviours, all People Managers should be consistently driving all four Leadership Performance Expectations, all the time. The Leadership Performance Expectations are:
  
  

Obsessed With The Customer

• Use data and insight to understand customer needs and solve customer problems
• Use our Purpose to support decision making everyday
• Role model living our customer commitments and guide teams to do the same
  
  

Obsessed With Performance

Know and be accountable for your part to play, delivering it brilliantly

Align team goals and ruthlessly prioritise resources to deliver our Customer Commitments

• Assign clear accountabilities, hold people accountable (in your team and out) and act on performance both good and bad
  
  

Lead Beyond Boundaries

• Actively share and seek to understand the big picture, both internal and external
• Story tell our Next Level Sainsbury’s strategy to drive end-to-end thinking
• Build productive partnership inside and outside our organisation
  
  

Lead Fearless Teams

• Create the environment for diverse perspective and challenge, where we are always looking to raise the bar
• Grow everyone around you (up, down and across) through adult-to-adult feedback and coaching
• Know yourself (strengths, weaknesses and impact on others) and continuously develop Support we will provide
• Full system and process training for the role
• Wider Portfolio team for direction and guidance
• Access to personal development tools e.g. Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, internal mentoring etc