AI PMO Delivery Lead

Kingfisher plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Care

Pension Scheme

Holiday 25 days

Staff Discount

Share Incentive Plan

Life Assurance

Bonus

Share Save

Development Opportunities

Job summary

Kingfisher plc is seeking an AI PMO Delivery Lead to drive structure, governance, and operational excellence across our AI delivery function. You will partner with AI Programme Managers, Implementation Managers, Product Managers, and senior stakeholders to ensure effective planning, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and delivery oversight.

This role requires proactive problem-solving, collaboration across teams, and a willingness to take ownership of smaller delivery initiatives within a

Qualifications

• Previous experience within PMO, project management, or delivery coordination roles.
• Experience working within agile or fast-paced delivery environments.
• Strong organisational and planning skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial tracking, and reporting activities.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams.
• Confident producing PowerPoint presentations, reports, and executive-level updates.
• Professional, adaptable, and able to handle confidential information appropriately.
• Strong judgement, resilience, and problem-solving capability.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to improve processes and ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Define and establish the PMO function within the Group AI team.
• Drive consistent delivery governance and ways of working across AI programmes and initiatives.
• Manage and track delivery schedules, progress, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and resource demand.
• Support quarterly planning and forecasting activities.
• Produce clear reporting, presentations, dashboards, and executive summaries for senior stakeholders.
• Support demand management administration and ensure high-quality reporting data.
• Collaborate closely with AI Programme Managers, AI Implementation Managers, and AI Product Managers.
• Support the consolidation and aggregation of delivery data for leadership reporting.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery processes and operational standards.
• Take ownership of smaller delivery initiatives where required.

Skills

PMO delivery

Agile delivery

Budgeting

Forecasting

Stakeholder mgmt

Reporting

PowerPoint

Delivery governance

Problem solving

Cross-functional coordination

Job description

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.

AI is transforming the way organisations work, make decisions, and serve customers. At Kingfisher, we are building scalable, responsible AI capabilities that will shape the future of our business across multiple international brands.

Our Group AI team brings together specialists across data, engineering, product, and change to deliver high-impact AI solutions, shared platforms, and governance standards across the organisation. As AI adoption accelerates, we are looking for an AI PMO Delivery Lead to help drive structure, visibility, governance, and operational excellence across our growing AI delivery function.

As AI PMO Delivery Lead, you will play a central role in supporting the successful delivery and governance of AI initiatives across the business. You will work closely with AI Programme Managers, Implementation Managers, Product Managers, and senior stakeholders to ensure effective planning, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and delivery oversight.

This is an opportunity to join a fast-moving and evolving area of the business where adaptability, collaboration, and proactive problem-solving are essential.

Alongside leading PMO activities, you will also have the opportunity to take ownership of smaller initiatives and contribute directly to delivery outcomes within the AI function.

• Define and establish the PMO function within the Group AI team
• Drive consistent delivery governance and ways of working across AI programmes and initiatives
• Manage and track delivery schedules, progress, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and resource demand
• Support quarterly planning and forecasting activities
• Produce clear reporting, presentations, dashboards, and executive summaries for senior stakeholders
• Support demand management administration and ensure high-quality reporting data
• Collaborate closely with AI Programme Managers, AI Implementation Managers, and AI Product Managers
• Support the consolidation and aggregation of delivery data for leadership reporting
• Contribute to continuous improvement of delivery processes and operational standards
• Take ownership of smaller delivery initiatives where required

• Previous experience within PMO, project management, or delivery coordination roles
• Experience working within agile or fast-paced delivery environments
• Strong organisational and planning skills with excellent attention to detail
• Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial tracking, and reporting activities
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams
• Confident producing PowerPoint presentations, reports, and executive-level updates
• Professional, adaptable, and able to handle confidential information appropriately
• Strong judgement, resilience, and problem-solving capability
• Proactive mindset with the ability to improve processes and ways of working

How We Work

We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations.On average within ourEngineering team-40% of your time involvingin-person collaboration.

What We Offer

An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encouragenew ideas, support experimentation, and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self.Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.Scroll down below to find out more aboutour benefits.

Diversity & Inclusion

Our customers come from allwalks of life- and so do we.We’recommitted to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age,gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

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What we offer.

Private Health Care

Opportunity to receive up to family level cover with AXA. Join within three months of starting or at annual renewal in April. (This benefit is subject to Benefit In Kind taxation).

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

Immediate eligibility through auto-enrolment. Contribute 8% to receive a max 14% from the Company.

25 Days' Holiday

25 days per annum plus bank holidays as stated in your contract (pro rated for part time colleagues).

Staff Discount

20% discount at B&Q and Screwfix. Eligible after 3 months service.

Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Share ownership in a tax efficient way. Save between £10 to £150 per month. Join at any time once three months service is reached.

Life Assurance

x4 Salary plus benefit equal to value of your Retirement Account (if an active member of KPS-MP) or x1 Salary if not active member.

Bonus

Competitive bonus scheme that aligns to work level of role.

Kingfisher Share Save

Save with the option to buy Kingfisher plc shares at the end of a 3 or 5 year period. Offered annually. Three months service is required at the annual invitation date, normally in October.

Our Behaviours

At Kingfisher, being all-in means contributing fully to our ambitions, supporting one another, and helping create a culture where we succeed together.

Continuously curious. Listen to understand. Always improving.

We are brave

Aim high. Act with courage. Move with pace.

We win together

Lead with customer. Commit to deliver. Help each other win.

Our employees know us best. We wouldn’t be Kingfisher without them. So, we want to share what they think with you.

Training & Development

There are so many ways you can grow, learn, and develop here at Kingfisher. At whatever pace suits you.

Resources and tools to help you grow

Improving without instruments to help you learn is near impossible. That's why we make sure you have everything at your fingertips to find exactly what you need to keep growing.

Initiatives that measure development

With plans that ask you what you want to achieve and when you want to achieve them by, tracking progress and keeping development at the forefront of conversation is easy.

Find your path

The scale of group functions within Kingfisher is huge. That means you have the chance to build different career paths within multiple areas of the organisation.

Sharing is caring

We aren't selfish here at Kingfisher. Whatever your level of experience, you'll work with colleagues who are always welcoming and ready to share their knowledge whenever you need it.

Reach for the stars

So your ambitions are high? Good thing we have opportunities to find experiences in line with more senior roles and responsibilities. Here, you can evolve your career, no matter your level.

Why Kingfisher

We’re an innovative, international retailer on a journey to actively make a difference. Always striving to take that next step. You can be part of the difference. From bottom to top you can progress in a collaborative environment. So, why not Kingfisher?