Technical Programme Manager - Workforce of the Future

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 (plus Bank holidays)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• 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

There are a growing number of valuable, interdependent pieces of work within the Colleague domain that require co-ordination. The Workforce of the Future programme is a combination of behavioural & technical transformation to give colleagues rich capabilities & increase optimisation of the business. This is brought together within the myTesco app which is the strategic product for engaging colleagues & supporting them to do their jobs.

This role will have responsibility for the delivery of the iterative capabilities within the WoTF programme, co-ordinating with partners across Technology & the business. Working with other TPMs, Product & Engineering to help deliver the roadmap, in particular ensuring new pieces are correctly understood (in terms of scope, value, cost, resources and design), prioritised and resourced appropriately by the right forum of decision makers and consistently tracked. Strategic alignment & dependency management are essential skills to deliver this. Some examples of this work include the review & potential implementation of capabilities into Distribution and iteration of existing capabilities within our Stores.

You will be responsible for

• Deliver complex programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities
• Establish new or improve existing delivery methodology to deliver the programme goals
• Initiate and shape programmes with ambiguous scope and uncertain delivery approach
• Understand trade-offs in software delivery, using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with the Engineering and Product teams to acquire the best value and solution
• Am able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and handle customer issues
• Act on opportunities to embrace trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery
• Am able to understand a technical architecture to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans
• Have good knowledge of engineering standard methodologies and practical infrastructure implementations to appreciate delivery challenges
• Understand technology concepts, grasp new ones quickly and appreciate their implications on delivery
• Effectively manage major incidents, ensuring customers are updated with the right information to drive the accurate decisions
• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements
• Build positive relationships with suppliers & external collaborators to deliver software or professional services
• Add new value to vendor selection processes (tendering, agreeing SLAs, warranty periods, outsourcing)
• Coach peers and other roles, teaching where required, on methodologies and programme management tools and coach/mentor on leadership
• Play an active leadership role in the TPM guild and community

You will need

• A proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology and/or infrastructure; having done so across multiple teams in multiple geographies
• Experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams
• Strong Project, Customer & Programme management skills
• Strong communication & influencing skills

If this sounds like the right role for you please apply, we would love to hear from you!

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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.