Project Manager - 3 Month Fixed Term Contract

Tesco UK; Digswell; Ibrido; GBP 55.000 - 75.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Tesco is seeking a Project Manager to lead transformational People Change initiatives within the Digital Colleague Experience team. You will guide end‑to‑end delivery with a small team, ensuring objectives are met through robust governance and stakeholder engagement.

The role requires running complex, cross‑functional programmes and delivering technology-enabled changes across people processes. A collaborative, results‑driven mindset is essential for success in this hybrid workplace.

Competenze

• Experience with programme and/or project methodologies.
• Strong ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven capability to deliver complex cross‑functional programmes.
• Experience delivering technology-enabled projects in large organisations.

Mansioni

• Lead end-to-end delivery of People Change initiatives within Digital Colleague Experience.
• Governance and reporting to ensure oversight and control throughout the project lifecycle.
• Create and track business cases, benefits, and delivery milestones.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and the critical path.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure milestones are realistic and on track.
• Lead lessons learned and post‑implementation reviews with key stakeholders.

Conoscenze

Programme management

Stakeholder engagement

Influencing skills

Executive communication

Team leadership

Descrizione del lavoro

In this exciting role as a Project Manager, you'll lead delivery of transformational People Change initiatives within Digital Colleague Experience team, as part of a small team of Project Managers through the end to end project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of each project's objectives.

You will 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 throughout.

• Oversight of the end-to-end delivery projects primarily focused on digitalisation of people processes and replacement, or enhancement, of existing people technologies.
• Uphold high project management standards, ensuring consistent use of governance, planning, reporting and delivery practices.
• Act as first point of escalation for the project team
• Responsible for creation of business case & tracking delivery of benefits
• Provide project/release status summary and reporting into relevant governance forums
• Responsible for delivery of all business discovery to determine feasibility of a change initiative
• Creating and maintaining project planning artefacts e.g. project plan, RAID logs
• Deliver to agreed timeline, and on budget, challenge and course correct the plan as required.
• Manage all risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies within the project/release, escalating where appropriate
• Ensure project plans are aligned and dependencies managed to the broader programme plan
• Manage the resource planning and any capacity constraints to support the delivery of the plan and take corrective action where necessary
• Ensure milestones and key deliverables are realistic in line with key activities
• Oversee and take corrective action where milestones are at risk < li>Identify and monitor key dependencies with other waves and other programmes
• Identify and manage the project critical path
• Identify At-Risk activities/deliverables and take corrective action
• Lead the process for assessing change requests
• Leads Lessons Learnt sessions & Post implementation reviews in conjunction with team members and other key stakeholders
• Manages engagement with Group People service management & service delivery teams to enable successful transition

• Practitioner in Programme and/or Project Methodologies
• Financial and Benefits Management
• Strong Engagement and influencing skills
• Confidence presenting to senior business stakeholders
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Great at Building and Leveraging Relationships
• Experience delivering complex cross-functional programmes or projects
• Experience delivering technology-enabled projects into complex and diverse environments

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we're all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone's welcome. That's why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

When you join us in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Stores Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.