Strategic Portfolio Lead

RS Group plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global solutions partner as a Strategy Delivery and Execution Lead, driving alignment between strategic priorities and execution. In this hybrid role, you will support group-wide prioritization, manage investment submissions, and ensure effective delivery across the business.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus

Private healthcare

Generous holiday

Support for neurodiverse colleagues

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Experienced in supporting complex change in large environments.
• Strong understanding of portfolio and strategic program management.
• Excellent communicator with skills in stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Support the group prioritization process aligning strategy and budget.
• Manage planning inputs and investment submissions.
• Monitor delivery performance and provide regular reporting.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Strategic Programme Management

Communication

Change Management

Job description

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Location: This role is offered on a 9-month fixed-term contract. It is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our London, Corby or Manchester office.

We are seeking a Strategy Delivery and Execution Lead to join RS Group plc. This role offers the opportunity to drive alignment between strategic priorities and execution across the business. You will support Group-wide prioritisation and champion standard portfolio management practices to improve delivery, governance, and strategic decision-making.

Reporting to the Head of Strategy Delivery & Execution, you’ll work with stakeholders across functions and regions to ensure our investment decisions are realistic, aligned, and consistently delivered.

What you will be doing:
• Support the group prioritisation process, aligning strategy, delivery and business capacity, and budget.
• Manage key planning inputs and support investment submissions and reforecast cycles.
• Design, embed and maintain quality standards and audit adherence to portfolio and project processes.
• Monitor delivery performance and provide regular reporting on milestones, health, and budget.
• Support intake and change control processes, ensuring governance and compliance.

About you:
• Experienced in supporting complex change or transformation in large, matrixed environments.
• Strong understanding of portfolio and strategic programme management.
• Skilled in working with diverse delivery methodologies and managing through influence.
• Excellent communicator with strong stakeholder engagement and coordination skills.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to understand the bigger strategic picture.
• Resilient, adaptable, and proactive in solving challenges and driving improvement.

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome.
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQIA+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery.

We are RS Group:

RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions – the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.

Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital.

We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities.

RS is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive. We recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their true selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and retain the best talent.

In line with our D&I policy, we recruit and develop employees who are the best suited to the requirements of the job role, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?