Technical Programme Manager -- Enabling Functions

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a Technical Programme Manager to lead the Colleague Listening rollout and future roadmap across Product and Engineering. You will manage complex programmes with multi‑team coordination, shape scope, track plans, manage risks, and ensure clear governance.

Strong communication and stakeholder influence are essential to align delivery and value across global colleagues and IT partners. Hybrid role with emphasis on collaboration across Tesco locations and remote work, supporting

Qualifications

• Experience delivering technology and/or infrastructure across multiple teams and geographies.
• Ability to influence senior management and leadership teams.
• Strong project, stakeholder and programme management skills.
• Excellent communication and influencing abilities.

Responsibilities

• Deliver complex programmes with multiple business and technical risks.
• Apply and improve delivery approaches to meet goals.
• Initiate and shape programmes with ambiguous scope.
• Create and track a plan to deliver programme goals and technical plans.
• Balance trade-offs in software delivery to obtain best value.
• Identify risks, facilitate discussions and manage escalations.
• Adopt trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery.
• Understand technical architecture and its impact on timelines and dependencies.
• Coordinate incidents in the colleague space with stakeholders.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Programme management

Communication skills

Leadership

Job description

About Enabling Functions

Colleagues are clearly a huge part of Tesco & its success. Giving them the right capabilities to own their careers, to do their jobs and help optimise are extremely valuable. Enabling Functions is the home to similar areas that provide capabilities, benefits & support across the entire business (Colleague, Finance, Property & Legal). We aim to have a holistic programme view across all of Enabling Functions as well as a flexible approach to help deliver our highest value outcomes as well as supporting great career development opportunities.

The Colleague Listening programme introduces a new 3rd party platform to host Every Voice Matters, enabling more frequent opportunities to capture colleague sentiment.

This role will manage the technical delivery and support the initial rollout of the new Colleague Listening service, working closely with Product, Engineering, the 3rd party vendor, and partners across Technology and the business.

Post rollout, the TPM will continue to work with Product and Engineering to support prioritisation and delivery of the roadmap. This includes ensuring new features are clearly understood in terms of scope, value, cost, resources, and design, and that work is appropriately prioritised and resourced. The role will provide clear visibility of progress, risks, and dependencies, helping teams stay aligned and unblocked.

The TPM will also support the implementation of GDPR, security, testing, and disaster recovery requirements, ensuring these are appropriately considered across the programme.

In this role I:

• Deliver complex programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities
• Apply and improve existing delivery approaches to deliver the programme goals
• Initiate and shape programmes with ambiguous scope and uncertain delivery approach
• Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan
• 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
• Act on opportunities to adopt trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery
• 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
• Understand technology concepts, grasp new ones quickly and appreciate their implications on delivery
• Effectively co-ordinate incidents in the colleague space, ensuring stakeholders are updated with the right information to drive the correct decisions

An ideal candidate will have:

• A proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology and/or infrastructure; having done so across multiple teams in multiple geographies
• Experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams
• Strong Project, Stakeholder & Programme management skills
• Excellent communication & influencing skills

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. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

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