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As a Delivery Manager in Sainsbury's Tech you'll collaborate with our Product, Engineering, and business teams to lead the delivery of our key outcomes and programmes to generate customer, colleague, and business value. With a significant uplift in tech investment in the coming years, we have lots of transformational initiatives to deliver in Sainsbury's Tech and the Delivery Manager role will play a key part in our success to ensure delivery excellence. More about the role:

• Through partnering with multiple cross functional teams in Tech and stakeholders across the business, own the delivery of new products and complex changes in an agile environment.
• Tailor delivery approaches and methodologies, whilst setting up governance frameworks that are appropriate for the outcomes being delivered.
• Build and maintain underpinned plans, including deployments and rollout schedules.
• Manage stakeholders and define RACIs to ensure proper ownership of artefacts, decisions, and deliverables.
• Identify, anticipate, manage and communicate key risks, issues and dependencies, removing blockers for teams.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, Product and other Delivery Managers to align on cross team dependencies, surfacing and dealing with conflicting demands, escalating where necessary.
• Utilise strong influencing skills to drive decision making with teams, stakeholders and with the Tech leadership.
• Report progress against key milestones regularly to all stakeholders and into Tech governance forums.
• Conduct post implementation reviews to drive a culture of continuous improvement and proven value delivery, ensuring that learnings are fed through the wider Tech approach to delivery.
• Line Management of a Delivery Lead.
• Actively contribute to the Delivery Community of Practice.

• Extensive experience as a Project/Delivery Manager, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi-team initiatives within a technical landscape including:
• Software Development incl. Web & Apps
• Hardware and Devices
• Application Development
• Cloud & Infrastructure
• Networks/Connectivity
• Proven experience in Agile and Waterfall planning and successful delivery.
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation.
• Experience with managing compliance - Legal, regulatory, contractual, privacy, infosec, architecture.
• Highly proficient in status tracking and reporting, RAIDD, with experience of working with a company-wide governance framework.
• Proven experience in managing key change delivery activities such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to analyse and solve problems logically.
• Bold, curious, and resilient. Comfortable with driving decision making, challenging assumptions and taking risks.
• Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships across the business working in an authentic way.
• Experience working with and managing 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
• Strong communication skills to convey key messages, tailoring your approach as required to different audiences.
• Participate in technical detail, showing an understanding of the technical landscape whilst describing technical choices and trade-offs to stakeholders and leadership.
• Understanding of project/change budgets and how to manage them.
• Extensive experience as a Project/Delivery Manager in a Digital / eCommerce domain, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi-team initiatives within a technical landscape and matrix organisation.
• Experience delivering change within a regulated & compliant technical landscape & into business operations - partnering with Legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, information security, architecture & service teams.
• Highly proficient in building delivery plans, status tracking & reporting, RAIDD within Atlassian's Jira Software and Jira Product Discovery products.
• Proven experience in managing technical & business stakeholders to deliver key change activities across multiple teams concurrently, such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management and project / change budgets.
• Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships with 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
• Certifications – at least one of the below:
• Project/Program management frameworks: PMBOK, APM, PRINCE2 or similar
• Agile PM, SAFe Release Train Engineer / SAFe Agilist or similar

• We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whatever you are and wherever you work.
• Colleague discount: 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks; 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day.
• Pension scheme and life cover.
• Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
• Annual holiday allowance, with the option to buy additional holiday.
• Other benefits: season ticket loans, interest‑free car loan up to £10k, cycle‑to‑work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (access some of your pay before payday), discounts from hundreds of other retailers.
• Employee Assistance Programme and private healthcare.
• Maternity or adoption leave up to 26 weeks’ pay.
• Paternity leave up to 4 weeks’ pay.