Job description
General information
Job Title
Lean Portfolio Management Lead
Ref #
7521
Location
Edinburgh
Department
LACE
Business Area
Agile Change & Transformation
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
26-09-2022
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day
Lean Portfolio Management Lead
Edinburgh
Excellent Salary & Benefits
What we'll offer
We’re embracing an agile way of working; this Lean Portfolio Management Lead role will join us on an exciting journey. Join us and bring your talent, expertise, and skills to join our existing colleagues and make a difference to our customers, communities, and planet.
What you’ll bring
You’ll lead Analysts, manage stakeholders and provide perspective on large to enterprise-wide agile projects, including what technology and processes to use and adapt to achieve project outcomes.
The Role
Developing and implementing stakeholder engagement plans for projects to identify relevant stakeholders, develop positive stakeholder relationships, and ensure that each stakeholder has an appropriate share of voice- Negotiating and managing the deployment of project resource budgets, providing forecasts and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization
- Managing the project review process; providing stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and key recommendations at agreed review points to enable them to evaluate progress and agree on a change
- Reviewing existing operations in a major area of work and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement outcomes are delivered
- Managing the delivery of assurance reviews within a project, enable the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified to give senior stakeholders confidence that the project can deliver on time, budget, and quality
- Clarifying roles and responsibilities within the project team and ensure project compliance with the organization's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes
- Developing and/or delivering budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues
- Promoting an agile atmosphere within teams and groups by emphasizing nimble action in service of constant customer focus
- Developing and managing the delivery of a plan to evaluate and track business benefits and to identify actions needed to maximize these
- Using comprehensive knowledge and skills to work independently while providing guidance and training to others on maintaining high performance while applying a change mindset to the planning, execution, and monitoring of business activities during times of change
- Working at an advanced level to identify, select, and manage the oversight of projects, programs, and portfolios, including standardized policies and procedures, escalation, decision-making, change control, prioritization, and approval processes.
How to apply
We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, and look for ways to further develop themselves & career, and have an excellent work/life balance.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!
Why Tesco Bank?
At Tesco Bank everyone is welcome, we value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger in achieving our goals. It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.
We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.
All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.
We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.
All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.
Our purpose
The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. While it’s an innovation, ours is a business built on the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical professionals, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that’s changing the face of banking for our customers.
We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances.
We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances.
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