Senior Technical Programme Manager - Workplace Technology

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car Cash Allowance
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• 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 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave

About the role

• Deliver complex programmes
• Workplace Technology Portfolio Delivery
• Establish new or improve existing delivery methodology to deliver the programme goals
• Delivery of Work Practices within Workplace Technology Team; Vital contribution / definition / formalization of the Infra Delivery Team Workplace Practices
• Mange the resources working with recruitment agencies, approve the submitted timesheets, manage the contract extensions for TPMs within workplace technology department
• Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan
• Workplace Technology Roadmap and Release Planning; regular portfolio updates for senior management
• Regular interface points with external programmes to Workplace Technology, to ensure alignment of delivery, costs and resources
• Provide expert advice and guidance on programme delivery (mentoring other TPMs and supporting Engineering/Product teams)
• Regular team meetings and one to ones with TPMs (Product Managers are taking part in these meetings too)
• Working on resource management process to ensure the team has got skills and resource capacity to deliver the programme
• Working on workplace practices and their adoption across the product, programme, engineering and service areas
• Use experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with the Engineering and Product teams to obtain the best value and solution
• Governance meetings for complex programmes (Microsoft 365, Identity, Endpoint Solutions and Services,  Voice and Video) involving engineering and product leads
• Foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations
• Regular team meetings, one to ones and governance meetings to manage any risks / escalations
• Ensure risk escalation is conducted to the appropriate levels
• Act on opportunities to adopt trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery
• Working with product and engineering leads on establishing the ways of working and working practices within Workplace Technology Department
• Foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans
• Regular team meetings, one to ones and governance meetings to manage / understand any dependencies impacting the delivery timelines
• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements
• Define and agree appropriate processes for defining annual budgets dependant on internal and external factors
• Budget management including annual forecasting and then portfolio finance management throughout the financial year
• Build positive relationships with suppliers & external stakeholders to deliver workplace technologies or professional services
• Vendor management controls and working with the procurement team to best serve the needs of Workplace in a timely manner
• Construct short and long term plans with vendors about their products to support the Workplace Strategy
• Coach peers and other roles, teaching where required, on methodologies and programme management tools and coach/mentor on leadership
• Regular one to ones with TPMs, objectives and personal development plans review with the team
• Take a leading role in the recruitment process and make final recruitment decisions
• Interviewed and fed back the results / recommendations as a WL3 to the wider TPM community
• Working on roles and responsibilities for TPMs within Workplace Technology Department to unify the requirements and expectations from all TPMs within the team

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

You will be responsible for

Workplace Technology Portfolio Delivery

You will need

• Project Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Programme/Portfolio Management
• Communicating and Influencing
• Broad technical understanding of the complete technology stack including workplace, collaboration, voice and video technologies.

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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. 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.