Portfolio Delivery Lead (12 months FTC)

12 months FTC

Up to £57,000 + Pension + PMI  + ShareSave + 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 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 £51m in 2026. 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. Reporting to the Head of Portfolio & Transformation, the role utilises appropriate frameworks and tools to prioritise, track, and manage the portfolio while adhering to governance forums. Maintaining a clear and accurate view of the portfolio is essential for facilitating investment decisions.

• 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

• 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.