Portfolio Lead
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 14 November 2025
Requisition ID: 400031190
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not handling projects, we’re helping all corners of the wider group with what they’re trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there’s always something else around the corner, and we’ll help and support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.
About the team
Join our dynamic Finance Operations & Change division, where we work collaboratively to drive strategic transformation and support sustainable business growth. Based out of our London or Manchester Store Support Centres – with flexible home working options – you’ll be part of a forward-thinking team at the heart of our business.
We pride ourselves on connecting Finance and Technology, enabling improved customer experiences and empowering our organisation to compete more effectively. You’ll be joining a close-knit group that values collaboration, innovation, and a passion for delivering results together.
More about the role
As a Portfolio Lead, you’ll partner closely with the Head of Finance Transformation and play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our Finance Transformation agenda over the next three years and beyond.
Day-to-day, you’ll build and maintain robust frameworks and tools for managing management information and reporting, ensuring we have ‘one version of the truth’ across the portfolio of transformation projects impacting Finance. You’ll be at the centre of capturing key dependencies, resource requirements, and driving visibility on progress against our transformation goals.
You’ll engage regularly with Finance and Technology teams, facilitating knowledge sharing and improving collaboration across the wider transformation community. Expect to lead high-quality engagement with transformation leaders, support quarterly programme resets, and provide concise updates for Finance leadership. Your work will directly enable better, faster decision-making and prioritisation, while you champion a mindset of continuous improvement and collaborative working.
More about the role
You are a proactive problem-solver, comfortable working independently and driving change across diverse stakeholder groups. Your experience in delivering major change programmes is complemented by your ability to manage and analyse data, develop impactful dashboards, and tailor communications for varied audiences. You thrive in environments where continuous learning is valued and are eager to share your knowledge, championing collaborative and agile ways of working.
Demonstrating our valued behaviours, you take ownership of your outcomes, seek ways to make things better, and build relationships based on honesty and integrity. You’re curious about how the wider business operates and always considers the customer perspective in your approach. You’re committed to fostering an environment where delivery is achieved at pace, and you consistently drive for improvement in everything you do.
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience supporting implementation of major change programmes or projects within a Finance or Technology environment.
- Demonstratable ability to develop and maintain management information, reports, and dashboards to support business decision-making.
- Evidence of stakeholder management, including tailoring communications for multiple audiences and driving collaborative engagement.
- Ability to independently manage data and insight to connect projects, map dependencies, and measure progress against key outcomes.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and dashboard tools, with a track record of delivering accurate and timely programme information.
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
