Portfolio Manager

Job description

Location Hybrid – London or Manchester base, with approximately 2 days per week office-based About the team: You’ll join the Finance Operations & Change team at the heart of Sainsbury’s Transformation agenda. Working across Finance, Business Planning and Technology, the team provides clear visibility of change activity, resource demand, and delivery progress. As part of a small, high-impact team, you’ll help shape how transformation is delivered across Finance—driving consistency, improving connectivity, and supporting informed decision-making. More about the role: As Portfolio Manager, you will provide a single, joined-up view of transformation activity impacting Finance. You’ll ensure consistent data capture, build reporting frameworks, and track programme performance, cost, and delivery milestones. A key part of the role is supporting governance—ensuring projects that are aligned, structured, and progressing effectively—while enabling leadership teams to prioritise with confidence. You will also connect Finance with the wider transformation community by facilitating engagement, supporting alignment sessions, and improving knowledge sharing. Through dependency mapping, resource a...