Lead Capability Governance Manager - 8 Month Secondment

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 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
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• 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

You will lead the end to end process for the design and delivery of Group Capability Governance and planning. You'll work to partner with all aspects of the capability team, wider people team and business stakeholders (e.g. capacity planning team) to ensure we have a defined capability plan that we deliver against. Owning the budget management process for the team, working with stakeholders to prioritise and forecast future spend whilst taking a cost conscious approach to all current spend.

You will be responsible for

• Design, implement and manage the group wide capability governance process and blueprint.
• Partner with the capability leadership team (UK & TBS - Group where applicable) to help prioritise workload for the group capability design managers, providing a holistic view of work coming in from the business and aligning that to our strategic priorities going forward.
• Work in partnership with the TBS team and lead the prioritisation of work to ensure it serves our purpose and strategic priorities.
• Work across the leads and design team to join the dots and break down any siloed working.
• Liaise with market capability teams to ensure a group view is taken across work, taking a long term view and moving us towards a group capability PoE.
• Influence the teams and ensure everyone is aware of priorities, balancing that with safe and legal work requirements.
• Responsible for budget management, working with budget holders and Finance to proactively build and manage our budget and to improve our budget forecasting and accuracy.
• Own and be the point of contact for our Managed Learning Service (MLS) provider and actively work with them to ensure rigorous governance when working with third parties.
• Facilitating the management of our goods not for resale plans including holding our MLS Provider to account on spend reporting, plus any additional Procurement initiatives.
• Work closely with procurement to ensure training spend for the business is channeled through the capability team.
• Represent Capability, contributing and managing Corporate reporting initiatives and PLC comms opportunities.
• Ensure we strive for a learner lead, simple and accessible group capability offer that is data led and supports our strategic priorities.
• Work seamlessly across the people operating model and wider capability PoE (UK, Group & TBS) to respond to the changing needs of the business in an agile manner whilst always keeping the learner experience at the heart of everything we do.
• Maintain expertise and continued professional development, be a thought leader in your space and strive for continuous improvement across the capability catalogue.
• Use data & analytics to critically review and evaluate existing development solutions.
• Present data in a compelling way to report back to the business, make recommendations for improvements and support future business cases.

You will need

Experience:

• Programme management
• Influencing senior stakeholders
• Holding teams to account
• Proactive budget management

Operational Skills:

• Project and programme management
• Stakeholder management
• Budget management
• Colleague expert
• Consulting and partnering
• Commercial know how
• Line management experience

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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.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.