Online Business Planning Manager

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work!  These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (and bank holidays)
• Great colleague discounts and deals, saving you money on everyday purchases, utility bills for the home and more
• Retirement savings plan – save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Buy as you earn and Save as you earn share schemes
• Opportunities to get on – take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training to help you achieve the career you want

About the role

The business planning centre of expertise sits across the four Value Streams and is the primary point of contact for ‘Easily the Most Convenient’ and ‘I Love My Tesco Clubcard’ strategic drivers. The role covers a range of business initiatives working with cross functional squads. An agile mindset for this role will be key, being able to inspect and adapt and focus on people and collaboration over process.

You will be responsible for

Delivery:

Responsible for managing the portfolio plan, tracking all initiatives and changes that are in flight or planned across the strategic driver. Facilitate and / or attend ceremony and governance meetings to connect with squads, track progress against OKR’s and share relevant cross value stream and wider business project updates and impacts. Tracking and updating on the progress, opportunities, risks and milestones across the strategic driver portfolio for upwards reporting to UK Leadership teams and Executive meetings. Sharing and reporting information to relevant stakeholders, including senior leadership, when required.

Alignment:

Monitor and track interdependencies both internally within the Value Streams and externally across the broader Tesco business and strategic drivers. Inspect and adapt ways of working and tools to drive improvements and alignments across the Value Streams. Partner with Group and International Tesco teams to share best practice, key learnings, and support with international strategy development. Facilitate value stream and / or business function update and inform sessions.

Strategy & Planning

Support the strategic long-term planning process, ensuring alignment to our strategy and objectives. Support the annual planning process ensuring programme / project plans are shared with UK Business Planning and relevant Delivery Partners.

You will need

• Strong communication and storytelling skills
• Stakeholder management
• Attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise
• Commercial awareness
• Critical thinking
• Leadership & motivation
• Progress monitoring
• Risk, opportunity & impediment management
• Governance

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 proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.