About the role In this exciting role as a Project Manager, you'll lead the overall delivery of transformational People Change initiatives within Digital Colleague Experience team, and lead a team of subject matter experts through the end to end project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of the project.
You'll proactively lead and collaborate with stakeholders within the business to ensure shared ownership for the delivery of business outcomes and realisation of benefits.
You will also drive complex cross-functional change into the organisation through the application of ‘best in class’ project management in a sustainable way; whilst managing effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control is in place across the delivery of the release. What is in it for you We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
The above information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details You will be responsible for
You will need
You'll proactively lead and collaborate with stakeholders within the business to ensure shared ownership for the delivery of business outcomes and realisation of benefits.
You will also drive complex cross-functional change into the organisation through the application of ‘best in class’ project management in a sustainable way; whilst managing effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control is in place across the delivery of the release. What is in it for you We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- 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
The above information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details You will be responsible for
- End to end delivery of defined projects or specific project deliverables
- Producing the project plans, subsequently tracking and reporting progress to the governance forum
- Deliver to agreed timeline, and on budget, challenge and course correct the plan as required.
- Act as first point of escalation for everyone within the projects
- Identifying and manage all risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies within each project, escalating where appropriate
- Ensure project plans are aligned and dependencies managed to the broader programme plan.
- Adhere to planning and reporting standards set by the Programme.
- Call out capacity/resource issues as required and take corrective action
- Ensure milestones and key deliverables are realistic in line with key activities
- Oversee and take corrective action where milestones are at risk
- Identify and monitor key dependencies with other programmes
- Identify and manage the project critical path
- Identify At-Risk activities/deliverables and take corrective action
- Impact assess change requests
- Identify and manage key stakeholders
- Provide project status summary and reporting into the cross programme integration and programme boards.
- Capturing lessons learned in conjunction with team members and other key stakeholders
You will need
- Success in delivering complex projects within or outside of Tesco
- Practitioner in Programme, Project and Change Management methodologies
- Financial and Benefits Management
- Prior experience working within a retail environment or working with retail businesses
- People Leadership and Management skills
- Strong engagement and influencing skills
- Great at building and leveraging relationships
- Experience with Agile to understand how Technology works