Project Manager - Payroll Technology

Tesco UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco UK is seeking a Payroll Manager to lead a team through the end-to-end lifecycle of payroll digitalisation projects. You will drive governance, manage risks and dependencies, and report progress to senior stakeholders while ensuring delivery on time and within budget.

The role requires strong programme management discipline, financial and benefits management experience, and proven leadership to coordinate cross-functional teams across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering complex programmes and projects.
• Proficient in programme and project management methodologies (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile).
• Strong financial and benefits management skills.
• People leadership and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of payroll digitalisation projects and transform payroll technologies.
• Drive and embed a robust governance framework across delivery.
• Create and maintain project artefacts (e.g., project plan, RAID logs) and provide status updates to governance forums.
• Identify, manage and escalate risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Coordinate resource planning and capacity management to meet milestones.
• Identify dependencies and manage the project critical path across waves and programmes.
• Lead assessment of change requests and drive Lessons Learned and Post-Implementation reviews.
• Engage with Group People services to enable smooth transition into live service.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

People leadership

Relationship building

Cloud technologies

Agile delivery

Job description

As a Payroll Manager, you'll lead a team of subject matter experts through the end to end project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of the project

Proactively leads and collaborates with stakeholders within the business to ensure shared ownership for the delivery of business outcomes and realisation of benefits

Drive complex cross-functional change into the organisation through the application of ‘best in class’ project management in a sustainable way

Manage effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control is in place across the delivery of the release

End to end delivery of a defined project - primarily focused on digitalisation of payroll processes and transformation of payroll technologies

Creating and maintaining project planning artefacts e.g. project plan, RAID logs

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

Responsible for creation of business case & tracking delivery of benefits

Deliver to agreed timeline, and on budget, challenge and course correct the plan as required.

Act as first point of escalation for the project team

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

Adhere to planning and reporting standards

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

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 into service

• Success in delivering complex programmes and projects within or outside of Tesco
• Practitioner in Programme and, Project management methodologies
• Financial and Benefits Management
• People Leadership and Management
• Strong engagement and influencing skills
• Great at building and leveraging relationships
• Experience of working Technology with Cloud based technologies and/or Agile delivery

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