Permanent From £52,000 - £59,000 Pension PMI ShareSave 6.6 weeks holiday Hybrid Working (2 per week in the office) Southampton, Store Support Office We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Portfolio Delivery Lead and you’ll be a big part of this. Role Purpose: The Portfolio Delivery Lead is pivotal in managing the B&Q Technology Portfolio, overseeing an investment of over £53m in 2025. 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. B&Q have ambitious plans to create high impact customer centric digital products at pace. This role supports this in a complex technology delivery landscape by coordinating delivery teams and aligning key stakeholders to ensure they are well informed on plans and dates, can map dependencies, ensure prioritisation decisions are taken on a timely basis, communicate issues and risks, link delivery to benefits realisation and support good governance. Key Accountabilities / 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 Required Skills & Experience 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 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! So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.