Project Manager - Shrink - 6 Month Secondment

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but aren’t limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme 
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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About the role

• Be agile in your approach collaborating cross functionally to ensure that the Long Term Plan reflects business priorities ensuring that we always serve customers, communities and the planet a little better everyday.
• Take ownership of the projects, ensuring alignment to strategic priorities and the service delivery model.
• Ensure the delivery of objectives and functional priorities, manage dependencies and deliver measurable improvements in line with Save to Invest targets supporting to make our stores safer and reduce loss.
• Achieve great results by inspiring, engaging and leading others; you make customer and colleagues feel valued.
• Deliver workload through ruthless prioritisation of time and resources.
• Owning the delivery of process and systems, making sure they’re effective and efficient; you spot issues and swiftly find the best solutions.
• Understand how technology is key to our future and make sure digital is a part of key business

You will be responsible for

• Following our business code of conduct and always acting with integrity/due diligence.
• Being flexible in your approach, prioritising and managing various projects of work across different areas within Business Support, improving different parts of the shopping trip for customers or simplifying our operations with new initiatives.
• Being responsible for designing, setting up end to end organisation of projects, consistently reviewing progress and ensuring they remain on track and in scope. Communicated and delivered through clear implementation.
• Ensuring all budgets and forecasts are accurate and issues highlighted in a timely manner.
• Always follow good quality change management processes to ensure longevity and sustainability of the project being delivered.
• Managing risk and issues, setting up and leading a clear governance programme.
• Taking ownership of processes and systems, making sure they are effective and efficient; you spot issues and swiftly find the best simplest solutions.
• Knowing your stuff, sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm, the way you manage makes Tesco a great place to work and shop.
• Gaining prioritisation from dependant teams and being agile to manage the implementation of various projects and programmes of work that simplify our operation.
• Standing over project closedown and post implementation review, taking note of key learnings and sharing these with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement on both the what and the how delivering save to invest commitments.
• Completing a clear handover from transformation to BAU once projects are complete.

You will need

Experience/skills required:

• Project Management
• Critical thinking
• Analytical rigour
• Presentation skills
• Financial awareness
• Prioritisation
• Retail Operations

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out 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 with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.