Insight & Analytics Portfolio CoordinatorHead Office

Asda is undergoing an exciting data transformation, placing insight and analytics at the heart of strategic decision-making. We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented Portfolio Coordinator to support the squads that deliver insight across our commercial, customer, supply chain, and digital functions.

What You'll Love

The successful candidate will play a crucial role in managing and coordinating the portfolio, helping to ensure our work is aligned with strategic objectives, as well as supporting a high performing team culture. This role requires a blend of project management skills, structured thinking, effective communication, and strong administrative capabilities. You'll learn from experienced programme and portfolio colleagues, as well as developing knowledge of the ways we are driving business performance through data.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain the portfolio documentation, such as the squad roadmaps, ensuring consistency in detail and approach across the squads

  • Create regular portfolio status updates for leadership, providing insights into squad progress, resource allocation, and risk management

  • Facilitate portfolio meetings, including scheduling, agenda preparation, and note and action taking

  • Support with the management of portfolio finances, including raising and receipting POs, managing invoicing queries and maintaining finance trackers

  • Coordinate team meetings and events, such as our quarterly team days, fostering a culture of a great place to work

  • Conduct general team administration - maintaining contact lists, managing the team calendar and room bookings, maintaining the SharePoint site, supporting the onboarding process for new team members

  • Learn and develop in a high-performing team with opportunities to increase your influence and responsibility over time

What You'll Need

Essential:

  • Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

  • Proficiency in MS Office products (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint) and basic understanding of portfolio management.

  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.

  • Self-starter who is able to respond to changing priorities with a sense of urgency and pace.

Desirable:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Analytics, or a related field

  • Proficiency in project management software (e.g. MS Project, JIRA, PowerApps)

  • Certification in project management (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, AgilePM)

Why Join Asda?

  • We are a values-led organisation. As such, we encourage everyone to be open and honest. We work creatively and collaboratively, valuing everyone's input.

  • Our collaborative culture, the size of our business and our belief in the empowerment of the individual means opportunities at Asda are abundant.

  • We conduct £300m worth of transactions every week. Our website handles over 2 million transactions a month. We have more than 145,000 dedicated Asda colleagues ensuring that our customers are at the heart of everything we do.

  • We are passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities we serve, and are creating ways to inspire diverse talent to join Asda.

Why Join Insight and Analytics?

  • You will support business-critical programmes with visible, high-level impact

  • You will learn and develop in a forward-thinking team with clear opportunities to increase your influence and responsibility over time.

  • We offer flexible hybrid working with a supportive, inclusive culture

  • We offer an attractive benefits package:

    • Competitive salary, and performance related bonus

    • 7% Stakeholder Pension Plan

    • 15% Asda Colleague Discount

    • Free parking at Asda House, Leeds

    • Clear opportunities for career growth and professional development

Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices.Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

  • Discretionary company bonus
  • Company pension up to 7% matched
  • 15% colleague discount in store and online
  • Free access to wellbeing services such as Wagestream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
  • Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
  • Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves

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10% off Asda pet insurance

10% off selected Asda Pharmacy services

10% off Asda Tyres

20% Asda Travel insurance

30% off Asda Mobile bundles

Free remote GP service

Available to you, your partner and your children, 24/7, year round.

Pension

Save for retirement with up to 7% matched contributions from Asda.

Free physiotherapy consultations

Helping you and your partner take care of yourselves with 8 free sessions per year.

Colleague discounts

15% off at our stores year round – get discounts on groceries and George clothes year round, and even special double discount events.

Company car

Choose a brand new electric company car or a cash allowance within certain roles, the choice is yours.

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Hybrid working

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots

Benefits you’ll only find here

You’ll get a 15% colleague discount and exclusive retail discounts, not to mention 15% off your food at Greggs, Burger King, Subway, and Sbarro within Asda Express stores!

Setting your loved ones up for the future

As part of the team, you’ll get life assurance.

Guaranteed contracted hours

All colleagues are guaranteed weekly contracted hours / guaranteed weekly shifts via their contract of employment which is agreed with the hiring manager.

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