Portfolio Manager

Location: Cullompton

About Us: At Gregory Distribution Ltd, we are committed to delivering excellence in logistics and transport services. Our team is dedicated to maintaining high standards of compliance and operational efficiency. Join us and grow your career in a supportive and expanding business environment. We foster a strong culture of teamwork and continuous improvement.

Job Description: At Gregory Distribution, we are currently seeking a Portfolio Manager at our Cullompton site. The Portfolio Manager plays a strategic role, overseeing a suite of transformation initiatives to ensure alignment with the organisation's long-term growth and operational objectives. These may include multi-site rollouts, warehouse integrations, central system upgrades, TMS/WMS optimisations, as well as significant customer and staff integrations. Your role will involve driving strategic alignment, ensuring seamless delivery and adoption across all workstreams, and delivering long-term benefits to both the business and its customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Portfolio Governance: Lead the governance and oversight of a high-impact transformation portfolio, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, aligned with strategic objectives, adopted and delivering measurable business value.
• Communication & Risk Management: Identify interdependencies, manage risks, and ensure consistent communication across all stakeholders. Act as the primary point of contact for senior leadership on progress, value delivery, and resourcing.
• Commercial and Customer Impact: Responsible for ensuring that delivery outcomes drive measurable customer value, operational efficiencies vs scope and business case.
• Implementation planning: Beyond managing individual go-lives, this role will be responsible for the coordinated implementation of multiple, interdependent initiatives. This includes sequencing deployments across business units, mitigating operational disruption, and ensuring that implementation plans are aligned with broader business cycles and capacity.
• Financial Management: Oversee portfolio-level financial planning and performance, collaborating with business stakeholders to track investment, forecast spend, and ensure financial accountability across initiatives.
• Resource and Capacity Planning: Partner with Group Technology and Operations teams to ensure resource allocation and balancing capacity planning across the portfolio, enabling timely and effective delivery. This includes forecasting demand, resolving resource conflicts, operational peak period planning and ensuring the right skills are available at the right time across multiple initiatives.
• Continuous Improvement: Continuously improve portfolio management frameworks, reporting mechanisms, and governance processes to enhance transparency, agility, and delivery performance.
• Change Management: This includes assessing organisational impact, aligning change initiatives with cultural and operational realities, and ensuring that stakeholders across all levels are engaged and prepared. The role involves developing communication plans, training strategies, and feedback loops to support successful behavioural and process change across the business.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Portfolio Manager in a logistics, supply chain, or 3PL environment.
• Adept at leading complex, multi-programme environments, embedding change across the organisation while maintaining alignment with strategic goals.
• Proficiency in programme management software (e.g., MS Teams, Jira).
• Holds advanced certifications such as MSP, PgMP, MoP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, Agile-PM Practitioner, or APM PMQ, reflecting a deep understanding of portfolio and programme governance.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent and consistent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise and manage multiple workstreams simultaneously.
• Critical attention to detail and ability to meet daily deadlines.
• Able to work as part of a team and on your own initiative.
• Proficiency in MS packages, including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience in portfolios involving WMS, TMS, Finance, HR, and Telematics systems is highly desirable.

Why Join Gregory Distribution Ltd?

• Competitive Salary: £55,000 per annum - £60,000 per annum.
• Hours: 08:30hrs - 17:30hrs, Monday to Friday.
• Training: Monthly Courses for a variety of areas.
• Benefits: Additional holiday purchasing scheme*, Retail discounts with Hapi*, Retail Trust Wellbeing Support*, and more.
• Career Growth: Explore opportunities for professional development within our expanding business.
• Company Benefits: Excellent holiday allowance. Life assurance, pension, and sickness scheme*.
• Extras: Christmas Savings Club*, Black Circle Tyre Discount*, Free Uniform and paid Volunteer Day.
• Wellbeing Support: Benefit from the Retail Trust Wellbeing Support* program.
• Team Environment: Be part of a strong culture of teamwork and collaboration.

How to Apply:

If you have the drive to be the best and want to be part of a flourishing and ambitious company, apply now! Please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to high volumes of applications, we reserve the right to close adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

Eligibility: Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK with no restrictions. Proof of Right to Work will be required at the interview stage.

Contact Us: For any queries, please contact our Recruitment Team. Our team is available Monday to Friday, 08:30hrs - 17:00hrs.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: We prefer to recruit directly but have a Preferred Supplier List for when we need assistance. We'll be in touch if we need you.

*Subject to terms and conditions.