Project Manager - 12 month fixed term contract

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK retailer in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a passionate Project Manager to drive high-priority strategic projects. You will lead change initiatives, ensuring successful delivery while managing stakeholder engagement and utilizing methodologies like APM, MSP, or Prince2. A background in change management or Property management is preferred. This position offers a competitive compensation package and benefits including an annual bonus and ample vacation days.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme up to 20%

Holiday starting at 25 days

Private medical insurance

Paid maternity and paternity leave

Free virtual GP service

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and delivering change using APM, MSP or Prince2.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Ability to manage complex and confidential organisational change.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic and high-priority change initiatives.
• Engage teams to ensure collaborative and sustainable change.
• Provide governance, reporting, and risk management.

Skills

Change management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Project leadership

Tools

APM

MSP

Prince2

Job description

About the role

Are you driven by delivering large‑scale change that truly transforms how teams work?
We’re looking for a passionate Project Manager to lead high‑priority Property strategic projects into Tesco — shaping the future of how we operate and ensuring we deliver the right projects, at the right time, in the right way.

You’ll be at the forefront of complex change work, helping us modernise ways of working and delivering programmes that are central to our long‑term strategy. From confidential organisational change projects to end‑to‑end process transformation, you’ll guide teams through change that truly matters.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Linda Kerr

You will be responsible for

• Leading strategic, high‑priority change initiatives, including organisational people‑change and end‑to‑end process transformation aligned to the Property Strategy Plan.
• Managing and delivering confidential projects with professionalism, discretion and trust.
• Shaping change work with leaders across the Property lifecycle — ensuring clear vision, well‑defined scopes and robust business cases.
• Engaging teams across the wider business to ensure change is implemented collaboratively and sustainably.
• Applying APM, MSP or Prince2 methodologies to plan, structure and deliver successful change.
• Moving change programmes seamlessly into sustainable BAU, ensuring adoption, clarity and effectiveness.
• Leading and inspiring high‑performing matrix teams, taking colleagues with you as you shape what the future looks like.
• Facilitating conversations, keeping people connected and championing strong leadership behaviours across your projects.
• Providing transparent governance, reporting and risk management across everything you deliver.

You will need

• Proven experience leading and delivering change using APM, MSP or Prince2 methodologies.
• Confidence managing complex and confidential organisational change.
• Strong stakeholder management, able to keep people engaged, aligned and informed.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills.
• A background in change, Property management, local authority or housing association - a retail background would be ideal.
• Ability to plan, schedule and lead cross‑functional project teams.
• Financial awareness — forecasting, budgeting and building strong business cases.
• Resilience, adaptability and a collaborative approach.

What’s in it for you

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• 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 (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
• 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

About us

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.

It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.

We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.

We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com