About the role
Our vision is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, in a store or on the move, anywhere in the world. We want our customers to be inspired and, whatever they are looking for, we’re finding bigger and better ways to provide it.
We’re working on an ambitious programme to overhaul the customer and colleague checkout experience, including deploying an in‑house till solution in the UK, rollout in ROI, and trials in Central Europe. Our goal is to build platforms that support the demand required to serve our customers a little better every day and offer new and exciting propositions in store.
The position will be based in our Welwyn Garden City office.
You will be responsible for
- Lead and deliver programmes with multiple business and technical risks that impact key Tesco business priorities.
- Define and track performance against customer and business KPIs.
- Manage risks and issues, influencing multiple dependent teams.
- Establish or improve delivery methodology to achieve programme goals.
- Create and track a plan to deliver programme goals, including the technical implementation plan, owning the release plan, stakeholder communication and weekly governance.
- Understand trade‑offs in delivery, using experience and influencing skills to obtain the best value and solution through consensus with Business, Technology and Engineering teams.
- Foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations.
- Act on opportunities to adopt trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery.
- Define a technical architecture that foresees the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans.
- Apply knowledge of System, Software and Data engineering and implementation best practices to understand delivery challenges.
- Manage major incidents, ensuring stakeholders are updated with the right information to drive correct decisions.
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements.
- Build positive relationships with suppliers and external stakeholders to deliver software or professional services.
- Coach peers and other roles on methodologies and programme management tools; mentor and lead others.
- Lead other TPMs in the team, coordinating their plans into the wider programme plan.
- Play an active leadership role in the TPM guild and community, proactively influencing capability and capacity planning for TPMs.
You will need
- Managing Risk
- Programme Governance
- Business Awareness
- Communicating and Influencing
- Data Analytics and Insight
- Strategic thinking and problem solving
- Finance and Procurement
- Embracing and Enabling Change
- Curiosity and Learning
- Core Technology
- Product Methodologies
- Retail Technology Awareness
- Development Life-cycle
- Proven record of delivering technology across multiple teams in multiple geographies.
- Experience building credible relationships and influencing senior management and leadership teams.
- Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self‑starter.
Whats in it for you?
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of statutory maternity or adoption pay, plus 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, and free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
About Us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship; it means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we serve and for the planet.
We are proud of an inclusive culture where everyone truly feels they can be themselves. We celebrate diversity and recognise the value it brings. We’re committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued and all colleagues are given equal opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we remain committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
We offer a range of diverse full‑time and part‑time working patterns across many business areas. We work in a blended pattern, combining office and remote work, and our offices are where we connect, collaborate and innovate. For internal candidates, please speak to the hiring manager about how this can work for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.
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