Job Description

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Job Title

Portfolio Manager###

Location

Asda House###

Employment Type

Full time###

Contract Type

Permanent###

Hours Per Week

37.5###

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

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Category

Project and Program Management - SF###

Closing Date

27 June 2025

Asda is undergoing an exciting data transformation, placing insight and analytics at the heart of strategic decision-making. We are seeking a structured, organised, and proactive Portfolio Manager to support the squads that deliver insight across our commercial, customer, supply chain, and digital functions.

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The successful candidate will play a crucial role in managing and coordinating the portfolio, ensuring our work is aligned with strategic objectives, as well as providing targeted project management support where required. They will also be critical in driving a high performing team culture across Insight & Analytics.

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This role requires a blend of portfolio and project management skills, structured thinking, collaboration, and effective communication . You'll learn from experienced programme and portfolio colleagues, as well as developing knowledge of the ways we are driving business performance through data.

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What You'll Love

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Provide visible support across the Insight & Analytics function, enacting clear project management routines and building trust through pace, presence and results

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Understand requirements and priorities, and identify what analytics support is needed and for how long, feeding in to prioritisation discussions and resource allocation

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Align with allied functions, such as Technology, to identify dependencies, remove blockers, and accelerate progress

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Lead coordination efforts across Insight & Analytics disciplines to deliver projects/tools which can step change our performance

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Manage portfolio finances, working with Finance to ensure the budget tracker is accurate and flagging any risks or variances

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Contribute to team meetings and events, such as our quarterly team days, by developing material and organising speakers, fostering a culture of a great place to work

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Learn and develop in a high-performing team with opportunities to increase your influence and responsibility over time

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What You'll Need

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Essential:

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Recent experience in undertaking a similar role managing projects or a portfolio. Proven ability to define scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables, as well as implement governance structures that drive prioritisation, accountability and momentum.

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Excellent verbal and written communication, and strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.

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Practical examples of working with both Agile and Waterfall approaches to Project Management.

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Self-starter who can respond to changing priorities with a sense of urgency and pace.

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Team player with a creative approach to fostering a strong and inclusive team culture

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Proficiency in MS Office products (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint) and experience with project/portfolio management software (e.g. MS Project, JIRA, PowerApps)

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Desirable:

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Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Analytics, or a related field

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Certification in project management (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, AgilePM)

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Competence in creating reports using Excel, PowerBI, or similar tools

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Why Join Asda?

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We are a values-led organisation. As such, we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

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Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

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We conduct 300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

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We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

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Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.


You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

Discretionary company bonus Company pension up to 7% matched Company Car allowance of 5,700 15% colleague discount in store and online Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas. Asda Allies Inclusion Networks - helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves"