Portfolio Delivery Lead
12 months Full Time Contract. Salary up to £57,000 plus pension, PMI, ShareSave, 6.6 weeks holiday, hybrid working (2 days per week in office).
Location: Southampton, Store Support Office. B&Q’s Southampton Store Support Office equips stores, people, and the business with everything needed so customers can create a home they love.
Role Purpose
The Portfolio Delivery Lead manages the B&Q Technology Portfolio and oversees an investment of over £51m in 2026. Acting as liaison between B&Q business stakeholders and B&Q and Group Technology teams, the role ensures the successful delivery of change initiatives by tracking key milestones, prioritising, and managing the portfolio while adhering to governance forums. Maintaining an accurate view of the portfolio is essential for facilitating investment decisions.
What's the job?
* Oversee large strategic initiatives delivered for B&Q, understanding desired roadmaps from business teams and tracking 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, ensuring clear problem statements with defined value are prioritised into the backlog.
* Work with Group technology teams to facilitate communication on issues and progress back to B&Q.
* Provide details of future roadmaps to Group teams so they can plan capacity and minimise delivery delays.
* Collaborate with Solution Architects to facilitate high‑level estimations for future opportunities.
* Collaborate innovatively with business and Group teams to accelerate time to value through agile delivery.
* Manage vendor relationships with third parties when required.
* Oversee management of legal, fiscal, or regulatory changes, facilitating the intake process and tracking work to completion.
* Build and manage plans for delivery of small works projects that are not product aligned.
* Work with the B&Q PMO team to provide status updates to the wider B&Q business and senior management.
* Collaborate with other portfolio team members to provide central reporting that is accessible and current.
* Assist with pulling together Investment Appraisals where initiatives require funding approval.
What We Need
* Ability to work across a matrix team environment, breaking down organisational silos and building strong partnerships.
* Strong portfolio data management and analysis skills.
* A customer‑focused 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 directly.
* Strong commercial understanding and analytics.
* Strong stakeholder management.
* Understanding of different delivery methodologies.
* Experience in business planning, forecasting, investment strategy, business case management, and budget management.
What's in it for me?
As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.
We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award‑winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!
If you require any recruitment adjustments during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk.
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