Project Manager - People Change

About the role

In this exciting role as a Project Manager, you'll lead the overall delivery of transformational People Change initiatives within Digital Colleague Experience team, and lead a team of subject matter experts through the end to end project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of the project.

You'll proactively lead and collaborate with stakeholders within the business to ensure shared ownership for the delivery of business outcomes and realisation of benefits.

You will also 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 across the delivery of the release.

You will be responsible for

End to end delivery of defined projects or specific project deliverables

Producing the project plans, subsequently tracking and reporting progress to the governance forum

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

Act as first point of escalation for everyone within the projects

Identifying and manage all risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies within each project, escalating where appropriate

Ensure project plans are aligned and dependencies managed to the broader programme plan.

Adhere to planning and reporting standards set by the Programme.

Call out capacity/resource issues as required and take corrective action

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 programmes

Identify and manage the project critical path

Identify At-Risk activities/deliverables and take corrective action

Impact assess change requests

Identify and manage key stakeholders

Provide project status summary and reporting into the cross programme integration and programme boards.

Capturing lessons learned in conjunction with team members and other key stakeholders

You will need

Success in delivering complex projects within or outside of Tesco

Practitioner in Programme, Project and Change Management methodologies

Financial and Benefits Management

Prior experience working within a retail environment or working with retail businesses

People Leadership and Management skills

Strong engagement and influencing skills

Great at building and leveraging relationships

Experience with Agile to understand how Technology works

Whats in it for you?

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Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary

Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)

Private medical insurance

26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave

Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

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About Us

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.

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