We are looking for a Strategic Portfolio Manager UK, 12-month maternity cover to join our team here at Starbucks UK. A place where you are valued, challenged, and inspired. Where your voice is brewed into everything we do. At Starbucks, we are all about you.

This role contributes to Starbucks success by supporting the UK Leadership Team with prioritising and managing the delivery of strategic projects in the UK business, key to ensuring the execution of the UK business strategy.

The Strategic Portfolio Manager is responsible for ensuring all functional projects and strategic projects are planned for effectively, ensuring cross functional teams are engaged and aligned to deliver projects to an agreed timeline, scope, and budget. The role will also be responsible for ensuring that all UK projects are prioritised, based on the company’s available resources, in line with the overall business strategy. The Strategic Portfolio Manager will then support the business to effectively execute the prioritised projects, deploying project management tools and techniques as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Manage and lead the overall strategic project delivery including end-to-end execution of the priority projects for the UK, while working to ensure project prioritisation, business requirements and business cases consideration.

• Design and embed new cross functional ways of working, including newly defined accountabilities and responsibilities, including the structure and repeatable processes for project execution.

• Maintain the overall UK project plan, ensuring alignment with all functions and stakeholders.

• Help shape and bring to life governance framework and functional vision that lends itself to accelerated and successful project delivery.

• Manage the senior stakeholder community through disciplined programme reporting and updates, 121 engagements to overcome challenges, and collaborative efforts with their teams.

• Own financial tracking and cost management within project delivery, and benefits measurement & tracking mechanisms post-project implementation, are critical to delivering the financial benefits / AOP targets in the UK strategic plan.

• Identify creative solutions to any obstacles or blockers that could compromise the successful execution of strategic projects.

• Manage a team of project managers to deliver the projects in the strategic portfolio.

The best part about this role is that no two days are ever the same! Working as our Strategic Portfolio Manager you will have the following skills and experience :

• Project Management skills; agile and waterfall methodologies; ideally with formal certification

• Managing cross-functional project teams to achieve delivery goals

• Senior stakeholder management, ideally exposure to business leadership

• Financial management of projects

• Polished presentation skills including content development

• Ideally, experience within fast paced business environment such as retail

In return, we will offer you a competitive salary and benefits that include:

• 25 days (about 3 and a half weeks) holiday a year (plus Bank Holidays)

• Flexible benefits

• Life assurance and private medical insurance for yourself

• Comprehensive training (including coffee knowledge!) and access to Starbucks Global Academy

• Free bag of coffee each week and a 30% partner discounts on food, beverages, and merchandise

• Discounts with local and national retailers through Perks at Work platform

• Subscription to Headspace

• Home Sweet Loan (Interest-free loans that can be paid back over 12 months to help pay your rental deposit)

• Bean stock options for all partners (own part of Starbucks!)

• A free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme available to you and your family

So, if you are looking for a new opportunity, with us you will be welcomed, you will be challenged, you will be inspired. Here you will be heard. Because here, you are a part of it all. Here you belong. Starbucks is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All applicants and partners will be treated fairly, without regard to race, religion, sex, nationality, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity and expression. Do you know someone who would be a perfect fit? Share this opportunity with them! At Starbucks, there’s always room for one more