Program Management Lead London, England
Job description
We're ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.
We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.
THE TEAM
The PMO will be formed of 1 Lead and 2 PMO Analysts.
You would be reporting into the Commercial Operations Director and support our mission of becoming the world’s number one destination for fashion-loving 20-somethings.
THE ROLE
As a Program Management Lead at ASOS, you will be responsible for supporting the Commercial Operations Director to stand up and run a PMO to ensure the delivery of the budget.
The Program Management Lead will own the production of standard reporting, ways of working across workstreams and the central team to solve high-visibility problems affecting the program’s operations and opportunities. You will play a key role in ensuring that projects and programmes deliver the required business outcomes and help to monitor and report on progress against the annual budget target.
You will be a fundamental part of the wider ASOS team and help contribute to the success of ASOS.
You will be…
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Owning the production of core weekly documents and analytics
- Responsible for preparing Commercial Operations Director for weekly program meetings by liaising with workstream leads (WSL), initiative owners (IOs) and Finance Business Partners
- Constructing the Management Committee presentation/ PLC board presentations, providing a first draft of the agenda, conducting quality control checks
- Reviewing the weekly report before it is released, and summarising the key takeaways for the program leadership
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Partnering with the Commercial Operations Director to solve high-visibility problems
- Acting as the first point of contact for WSLs in need of help driving initiatives forward
- Effectively utilising a ‘challenger’ mindset to breakdown roadblocks, aligning on decisions, and coordinating the solution between the program leadership and workstreams
- A sounding board for the Commercial Operations Director in preparation for ExCo and other leadership presentations
- Responsible for leading problem solving of issues that come up in program or ExCo meetings
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Working alongside Finance Business Partners to align to the realisation of the company budget
- Highlighting risks and opportunities
- Supporting with reporting and analysis at month end, reforecast and half year to help inform on progress against the budget task
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Reviewing performance in Wave with WSLs, IOs, Finance Business Partners and the Commercial Ops Director
- Challenging progress
- Ensuring the program analysts complete updates and action tracking in a timely manner
- Supporting active stakeholder engagement and participation
- Managing, supporting and developing the Program Analysts to become high performing members of the ASOS team
We’d love to meet, someone with…
- Extensive experience in Commercial organisations
- Experience managing teams of employees through an operational turnaround of significant step-change
- Track record of consistently delivering high-impact results in an innovative and fast paced environment
- Exceptional communication skills: producing and presenting concise and informative presentations
- Experience working in professional service environments, especially management consulting or investment banking
- Excellent problem solving and stakeholder engagement skills
Additional Information
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary, bonus and pension matching
- Life insurance, free private medical care, cycle to work scheme + more
- A bespoke flexible benefits scheme catered to you
- Best in class Learning & Development schemes and career development programmes
- 25 days holiday + never work on your birthday again!
- Free modern onsite gym, plus personal training and wellness rooms
- A dynamic social environment, from company-wide sports days, charity days, ‘Give A Week Away’ opportunities to visit our charity partners in India & company-wide celebrations to name just a few
- Huge staff discounts and sample sales
We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how’re we doing it?
Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.
We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.
There are safe space employee networks and we host a monthly DEI events series to help support and celebrate all of our people. We are constantly listening to our people, evolving, changing and taking a flexible approach to how we make ASOS truly inclusive.
