Porfolio Test Manager - Retail

First State Bank - Michigan; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking a Portfolio Test Manager to support a major retail client. This role entails managing programme-level testing across various teams, requiring extensive retail experience and a strong consulting background. The position is hybrid with occasional travel to Southampton, focusing on integrating critical deliveries effectively.

Qualifications

• Understanding of the pace and complexity of retail delivery.
• Ability to manage testing across multiple suppliers.
• Experience working with Agile and Waterfall delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Support major retail client in integrating deliveries.
• Act as the test authority across multiple workstreams.
• Engage with senior stakeholders and 3rd party suppliers.

Skills

Extensive retail experience

Programme-level testing management

Agile and Waterfall delivery models

Strong consulting background

Stakeholder management

Job description

4 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Contract Portfolio Test Manager

Retail Client | Inside IR35 | Hybrid (occasional travel to Southampton)

Were looking for a Portfolio Test Manager to support a major retail client as they pull together a collection of critical deliveries into a unified programme outcome.

This is a high-impact, senior-facing role requiring someone whos seen the inside of complex programmes and knows how to bring order, structure, and confidence to fragmented delivery landscapes.

Consulting mindset essential you'll be expected to influence, steer and challenge, not just report and react. Youll act as the test authority across multiple workstreams, engaging senior stakeholders, 3rd party suppliers, and internal teams alike.

What We Need

• Extensive retail experience you understand the pace, complexity and business-critical nature of retail delivery
• Proven ability to manageprogramme-level testingacrossmultiple suppliers and delivery teams
• Confident working acrossvaried delivery models(Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) and aligning them towards a shared goal
• Strong consulting background credible in front of the board, clear with delivery teams
• Gravitas, strategic thinking, and top-tierstakeholder management
  
  

Contract Details

• Inside IR35
• Hybrid working (occasional travel to Southampton)
• Initial term tbc
  
  

If you're a consultant at heart, used to making sense of complexity, and bringing senior leaders along for the ride this one's for you.

Sound like a fit? Lets talk.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance

• Industries

  Retail

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