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In this exciting role as a Project Manager, you'll lead the overall delivery of prioritised People change initiatives 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.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Mandy-Jane Starkey

• End to end delivery of a defined project
• 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 & impact assessment 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
• Works with Resource Manager to 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 for Technology enabled projects to enable successful transition into service
  

Operational skills relevant for this job:

• Managing senior stakeholders
• Managing large teams
• Driving delivery
• Building a strong team culture
• Forward looking with regards to delivery, risks and issues.
• Presenting to large audiences
• Highly resilient
• Strategic, critical and analytical thinking
• Facilitation skills
• Networking (across multiple functions, business units, external stakeholders)
• Programme & project management
• Ability to work with ambiguity and uncertainty
• Ability to positively resolve conflicts
• Able to manage 3rd parties
• Relevant industry and retail understanding / experience
• Understanding of IT methodologies

Experience relevant for this job:

• 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

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 a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but aren’t limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays)
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

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