Overview
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Job Introduction
Main Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Delivery team for consistent and effective portfolio management.
- Lead strategically to improve methodologies, focusing on agile and waterfall approaches while promoting best practices in kanban, backlogs, JIRA usage, financial tracking, and delivery metrics.
- Advocate for measuring outcomes and impacts of delivered work and assist in managing project/program budgets and integrate practices into BAU and the wider portfolio.
- Enhance lean portfolio management processes, covering strategic direction, funding, delivery, and outcome measurement.
- Maintain the PMO as the definitive source for project information and integrate project control and governance, providing coaching on its use.
- Conduct root cause analysis, manage cross-program dependencies, and support various PMO functions.
- Collaborate with Senior Executives, Department Heads, and Champions and work with finance partners to oversee investment processes and provide necessary reporting and to generate regular business-wide status reports.
- Own and manage the system that support the delivery processes (Triskell). Develop and implement a clear roadmap for system improvement that aligns with the evolution of the process
- Line management of a PMO Manager and Analyst resource
The Ideal Candidate
- Customer focused; putting customers at the heart of everything you do;
- Expert knowledge of organisational strategies and needs
- Strategic and analytical mind used to determine relevant KPIs in service of company objectives
- A deep understanding of PMO and related PPM processes and industry best practice including the entire project development life cycle
- Expert knowledge of the creation of frameworks, user guides, processes and systems optimised to efficiently reach organisational goals
- Proficient at storyboarding, writing executive summaries and summary status overviews
- Excellent communication – the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences across business function and level, tailoring messages appropriately.
- Excellent analytical and organisational skills, able to process and present information in a structured format and in a clear unambiguous way
- Advanced level Microsoft Office; extensive experience of project management methodologies including PRINCE 2 and Agile
- Excellent attention to detail and high quality of reporting outputs
About the Company
Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland. In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer. This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey.
In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
Benefits
- Pension
- 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
- Save As You Earn scheme
- Financial Wellbeing Support
- Financial Education Tools
- Salary Advance
- Seasonal incentive schemes
- Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
- Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
- Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave
This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.
For any questions email: vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.
No agencies, please.
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