Digital Portfolio Lead (24 Month Fixed- Term Contract)

Requirements

• We want every person in our organisation to feel like they're making a key contribution. Here are some of the experiences and skills you'll need for the role:
• 10+ years leading large-scale transformation portfolios in enterprise environments, with experience across global retail, consumer, FMCG, logistics, or similarly customer-centric sectors, managing multiple concurrent initiatives with enterprise-wide impact.
• Deep expertise in digital operating models, transformation governance, organisational change, and enterprise-scale agile methodologies and frameworks.
• Strong executive presence with proven ability to engage, influence, and confidently challenge senior leadership and C-suite stakeholders.
• Experience leading large, matrixed teams and squads across both business and technology functions, driving delivery and alignment across complex organisational structures.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including investment governance, benefits management, and the ability to challenge assumptions and drive disciplined decision-making.
• Does this sound like you? Great, because we can't wait to see what you'll bring. You'll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we're excited about our future - and we're excited to develop yours.
• What You'll Get
• People are at the heart of what we do here, so it's essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best.
• Let's talk lifestyle: You will also get 27days of annual leave and bank holidays and you can also buy 5 more. Because primark is all about tailoring to you we offer tax saver ticket, fitness centre and a subsidised cafeteria.
• About Primark
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Benefits

Additional Information

What You'll Do as a Digital Portfolio Lead We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you'll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities: Lead the end-to-end digital transformation portfolio, translating corporate strategy into a coherent roadmap aligned to business outcomes, operating model priorities, and strategic value, risk, and capacity considerations. Shape and prioritise the portfolio to ensure investments deliver measurable commercial and operational value while supporting organisational capability, customer experience, and transformation goals. Establish and lead robust portfolio governance, decision forums, reporting structures, and PMO standards to ensure execution discipline across all digital initiatives. Oversee financial management including budgets, forecasts, vendor spend, cost control, and transformation investment cases, ensuring optimisation of spend and value realisation. Drive transparency across delivery, including risks, dependencies, decisions, benefits, KPIs, and performance against agreed outcomes and investment cases. Provide clear, concise executive reporting on portfolio health, while identifying risks early and constructively challenging to drive corrective action and improved outcomes. Partner with executives, functional and senior business leaders to align priorities, enable decision-making, and act as a trusted advisor on sequencing, investment trade-offs, and organisational impact. Influence effectively across business, technology, supply chain, operations, finance, and people functions to ensure cohesion and delivery success. Coordinate complex cross-functional delivery across programmes, product teams, and business units, managing interdependencies across technology, processes, people, and operations. Ensure transformation initiatives are embedded into business planning and operational cycles, with strong integration across all functions. Support evolution of the operating model, organisational structures, and ways of working, ensuring strong change management, adoption, capability building, and consistency in methodologies and standards. Operate as an enterprise transformation leader by driving alignment, accountability, pace, and clarity; building credibility; leading and developing high-performing teams through coaching, while maintaining a strong professional reputation internally and externally.

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