Business Manager - Strategy & Programme

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Sector: Construction and Building Services
Role: Manager
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Overview

We're Kingfisher, a team made up of over 78,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher, we treat all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

We offer flexible and agile working, both of hours and location, providing colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices. This role can be based from the UK or France.

The purpose of the Strategy and Programme Manager for Global Sourcing is to provide direct support to the Global Sourcing Director and the Sourcing leadership team in creating & executing their strategic agenda. Proactively manage and deliver strategic initiatives, ensuring that all aspects of the product strategy are aligned with overall business goals.

What's the job:

• Assist with strategy development, supporting key meetings, and maintaining an effective governance cadence.
• Analyse business problems, proposing solutions, measuring and aligning performance metrics, and developing and implementing change plans to achieve business objectives.
• Oversee strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership.
• Support Global Sourcing Director and sourcing leadership team in crafting and delivering their holistic agenda.
• Own and lead the framework of governance and team events to ensure efficient and effective decision-making and communications.
• Prepare strategic topics for leadership meetings.
• Improve ongoing processes and coordinate procedures to ensure the efficiency and productivity of the sourcing leadership team.
• Ensure the communications plan is understood and implemented by the team.
• Build relationships with key colleagues in the team and broader organization to monitor and deliver on the strategic plans.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them.

What you'll bring:

• Experience in a business manager/chief of staff role or equivalent skills.
• Strong skills in business communications tools including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• A well-rounded problem solver who can extract logic, insights, and meaningful conclusions from complex business problems.
• The ability to interact with top-tier management and broader team to build relationships.
• Experience in aligning action plans and facilitating the sharing of optimal ways of working across multiple remote teams.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills to extract insights from complex problems.

Be Customer Focused:

• We listen to our customers and colleagues.
• We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead.

Be Human:

• We do the right thing.
• We invest in our people and build great teams.

Be Curious:

• We focus externally, globally and build the long term.
• We experiment and share our learnings.

Be Agile:

• We act with pace, not perfection.
• We take risks, fail fast and adapt quickly.

Be Inclusive:

• We celebrate difference as a strength.
• We collaborate, breaking down silos.

Be Accountable:

• We focus on performance outcomes.
• We prioritise and simplify for others.

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.

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