Portfolio Delivery Lead (12 months FTC)

Kingfisher

23h•$57,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Portfolio Delivery Lead is pivotal in managing the B&Q Technology Portfolio, overseeing an investment of over £51m in 2026. Acting as a liaison between B&Q business stakeholders and B&Q and Group Technology teams, the Portfolio Delivery Lead ensures the successful delivery of change initiatives, by closely tracking key milestones. Reporting to the Head of Portfolio & Transformation, the role utilises appropriate frameworks and tools to prioritise, track, and manage the portfolio while adhering to governance forums. Maintaining a clear and accurate view of the portfolio is essential for facilitating investment decisions.

Requirements

Ability to work across a matrix team environment, breakdown organisational silos and build brilliant partnerships.
Strong portfolio data management and analysis.
Takes a customer focussed and pragmatic approach.
An advocate of the wider business in Tech and of Tech in the wider business.
Strong communication skills with the ability to engage stakeholders in a straight-forward way.
Strong commercial understanding and analytics.
Strong stakeholder management.
Understanding of different delivery methodologies.
Business planning, forecasting, investment strategy, business case management, budget management.

Responsibilities

Overseeing the large strategic initiatives being delivered for B&Q.
Understanding the desired roadmaps from the business teams and tracking the Group and B&Q technology teams’ delivery of key milestones.
Provide regular reporting statuses on all B&Q technology change within agreed tools and frameworks.
Facilitate new intake demand from business stakeholders, working to ensure we have clear problem statements with defined value to be prioritised into the backlog for B&Q.
Work with Group technology teams to help facilitate communication on issues / challenges and progress back into B&Q.
Provide details of future roadmaps to Group teams to ensure they actively plan to flex their team capacity as required, minimising any delay to delivery.
Work closely with Solution Architects to facilitate high level estimations for future opportunities as required.
Collaborate innovatively with business and Group teams to accelerate time to value through agile delivery.
Manage vendor relationships with third parties where required.
Oversee the management of legal, fiscal, or regulatory changes, facilitating the intake process and tracking work to completion.
Build and manage plans for the delivery of small works projects (non-product aligned initiatives).
Working with B&Q PMO team to provide status updates to the wider B&Q business and senior management.
Collaborate with other members of the Portfolio team to provide central reporting that is accessible and current.
Assist with pulling together Investment Appraisals where initiatives require funding approval.