Technology Portfolio & Insights Lead

Overview Permanent Up to 60,000 + Pension + PMI  + Share Save + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (2 days 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 Technology Portfolio & Insights Lead  and you’ll be a big part of this.

Role

Purpose:

This role leads the day-to-day management of the B&Q Technology portfolio, ensuring investment is effectively managed, governed and reported. It combines strong portfolio and financial management with a curiosity for AI, automation and data, using technology to simplify reporting, connect information across systems and surface meaningful insights for senior leaders and stakeholders. Working closely with Finance, B&Q and Kingfisher Technology and business stakeholders, the role will manage new demand through governance and into delivery, provide oversight of portfolio investment and performance, and support decisions on priorities and the future roadmap.

It tracks portfolio outcomes, investment and benefits to ensure technology spend is delivering against B&Q's strategy.

What's the job?

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

Management of B&Q Technology Portfolio Management of the B&Q technology portfolio budget for the current financial year, working with the Finance and Technology teams to review and report monthly expenditure and continuously improve forecast accuracy.

Use of Copilot, AI and other portfolio tools to bring together portfolio data and automate reporting, reducing manual effort and surfacing timely, actionable insight on performance, trends, risks and dependencies for senior leaders and stakeholders.

Maintain a centralised view of milestones and OKRs, facilitating regular updates and ensuring stakeholders have full visibility of progress and status.

Support the annual B&Q budget planning process for the following year, collating costs, understanding cost phasing, validating benefits and keeping portfolio systems up to date.

Management of Governance Process Serve as the primary point of contact for governance requirements related to the portfolio. This includes supporting Technology Directors, Project Managers, and Product Managers in navigating the budget approval process.

Ensure required governance activities are completed for projects across the portfolio, such as post-completion reviews to assess return on investment and benefits realisation.

New Demand Own and actively manage the end-to-end intake process, ensuring new demand is assessed, prioritised and progressed through governance.

Maintain clear visibility of the demand pipeline, surfacing progress, blockers, dependencies and decisions required.

Continuously improve the process, using data, AI and automation to simplify ways of working, reduce manual effort and provide better insight for decision-making.

Contribute to wider Group Portfolio Team Actively participate in the Group Portfolio Chapter, working with other portfolio teams to improve the annual budget planning process and wider portfolio processes and ways of working. Organise and facilitate quarterly review and planning sessions, ensuring that past achievements and upcoming deliverables for B&Q are effectively communicated to the broader Technology function. Provide accurate and timely B&Q portfolio data and input to Group planning forums throughout the year.

Additional Reporting and Communication Management of the B&Q Technology team SharePoint site, ensuring content is current and accurately maintained. Coordinate and manage sharing sessions for the…