Portfolio Analyst
- Team
- Support Functions
- Store
- London Support Office
- Location
- London, Greater London
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Position type
- Full Time
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date: 27th July 2025
How We Hire
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
About the role
This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.
All the details
As a Portfolio Analyst you will support teams to operate within standard processes and frameworks set out to increase transparency, reusability and alignment across D&T. Portfolio analysts will help track execution of our critical initiatives, maintain operational excellence and report against our key metrics which determine our department health.
Working as an objective, trusted partner, you will support the Portfolio Managers to evolve our ways of working at M&S. You will listen and respond to feedback provided through your Portfolio teams and surface recommendations, insight, and challenge across all areas of Product & Programme health.
To succeed in this role, the Portfolio Analyst should actively champion ways to simplify, automate and continuously improve portfolio-level reporting of product and programme health, cost management and value/benefits realisation at every opportunity. The colleague will have excellent attention to detail and organisational skills to ensure our guardrails and frameworks are adhered to with accurate, valuable, and timely inputs.
What’s in it for you
Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.
Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
- After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
- Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
- Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
- A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
- A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
- Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
- Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
- Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
- A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.
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What you’ll do
Your key accountabilities will include:
- Build trusted relationships with Product Portfolio Leadership Team and provide data, reports, insight, and commentary into Product health (delivery, throughput, stability, security, costs, and value/benefits).
- Actively champion ways to simplify, automate and continuously improve portfolio-level reporting of delivery health, cost management and value/benefits realisation.
- Track progress against key achievements, approvals, managing key risks, issues & dependencies and produce Product/Portfolio performance reports. Analyse and interpret the metrics, costs, and value data to identify exceptions/ areas where action/improvement is needed and highlight these.
- Collaborate with Portfolio Leadership to agree the month end cost position, ensuring BSC Finance has conducted required purchase order, good receipts (GRs), accruals, prepayments and recharges based on relevant approvals, managing escalations appropriately.
- Engage with Portfolio Leadership to agree the latest spend forecast for each month and update the latest forecast for spend highlighting reasons for movement from previous forecasts/budgets and submitting months risk and opportunities for their Portfolio.
Who you are
Your skills and experience will include:
- Over 3 yrs experience in PMO roles across multiple products/programmes, including managing costs and delivery health.
- Excellent analytical skills including financial literacy, excel and Power BI.
- Strong communication, facilitation, co-ordination, decision making and business partner management skills.
- Experience of agile ways of working.
- Knowledge of Agile portfolio/ team tools like Jira & Confluence.
We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.
We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.
If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.
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Meet the Team
Being an in-person business
We're at our best when we're close to customers, and for many of us at M&S, that means working in store every day.
To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected. It also means we can solve problems as soon as they arise, learn and grow as a team, build trust, and get closer to our colleagues.
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Make Your Mark
Opportunities to be heard
Your voice and your ideas matter here. Our 8 colleague networks are places to find support, listen to each other and encourage debate. You can pitch ideas ‘Straight to Stuart’, our CEO, or get involved in our BIG (Business involvement Group).
Experience the business
You’ll spend 7 days each year helping in store and getting closer to our customers. We also organise Insight Days, so you can learn more about specific business units, like Foods.
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Benefits
How to Apply
Here’s what to expect at each stage of the application process. This can change depending on the role you’ve applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments made at any stage, let us know and we can help.
Send us your application
Fill in our short application form and hit submit.
Online assessment
Depending on the role, you may be invited to take part in an online assessment. Should you be invited to an online assessment your Talent Acquisition Partner will be more than happy to support you with any questions.
Interview
We'll invite you to join us for an interview. This could be remote or in person. Here, we'll ask you some role based technical questions and examine the behaviours we're looking for.
Decision
After we’ve decided, we’ll be in touch. If you’ve been successful, we’ll officially invite you to join the team and let you know the next steps.
Portfolio Analyst
- Team
- Support Functions
- Store
- London Support Office
- Location
- London, Greater London
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Position type
- Full Time
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Closing date: 27th July 2025
- Reference: 95178