Technical Programme Manager - Enabling Functions

Tesco UK; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Welwyn Garden City seeks a Technical Programme Manager to lead complex technology programmes and collaborate with product, engineering, and business teams. The ideal candidate will have a proven record in technology delivery and strong stakeholder management skills. This role offers diverse full-time and part-time working patterns, promoting a blended office and remote work model.

Qualifications

• Proven record of delivering technology programmes.
• Experience influencing senior management.
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills.
• Good reporting skills for programs and financial forecasting.
• Excellent communication and adaptability skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex programmes with multiple risks impacting Tesco's priorities.
• Track programme goals and keep stakeholders updated.
• Drive consensus on technical solutions and manage risks.
• Build positive relationships with stakeholders for accountability.

Skills

Programme Methodologies

Managing Risk

Programme Governance

Business Awareness

Communicating and Influencing

Data Analytics and insight

Strategic thinking and problem solving

Finance and Procurement

Embracing and Enabling Change

Curiosity and Learning

Core Technology

Product Methodologies

Retail Technology Awareness

Development Lifecycle

Job description

As a Technical Programme Manager, you will deliver complex, cross-functional technology programmes that support colleagues and help serve our customers better. They work collaboratively, influence Product, Engineering and business colleagues and lead the programme to deliver value quickly and often.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver complex programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities
• Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan, ensuring colleagues and stakeholders from across Tesco are kept up-to-date
• Understand trade-offs in software delivery using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with the Engineering and Product teams to obtain the best value and solution
• Foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations
• Understand a technical architecture to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans
• Have good knowledge of engineering best practices and practical infrastructure implementations to appreciate delivery challenges
• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements
• Build positive relationships with stakeholders to deliver software or professional services, holding them to account on delivery and improvement plans
• Contribute actively to TPM community

Operational Skills:

• Programme Methodologies
• Managing Risk
• Programme Governance
• Business Awareness
• Communicating and Influencing
• Data Analytics and insight
• Strategic thinking and problem solving
• Finance and Procurement
• Embracing and Enabling Change
• Curiosity and Learning
• Core Technology
• Product Methodologies
• Retail Technology Awareness
• Development Lifecycle

Relevant Skills:

• Have a proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology programmes
• Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management
• Strong Project, Stakeholder & Programme management skills
• Good reporting skills for programs and financial forecasting
• Adept communication & influencing skills and adaptability to changes

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.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

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.