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Senior Project Manager

We deal with large-scale projects that impact the ways of working of hundreds of people across Sainsbury’s.

As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll manage multiple change initiatives at any one time and will work in an agile way, adapting to challenges and developing leading-edge solutions. Working in a matrix environment, you could be working on a wide range of projects, from transforming processes and systems across the Commercial Division, to landing large-scale change across our stores, or working out how we can reduce the amount of plastic we use across the business. You’ll work alongside a broad spectrum of other functions including but not limited to Technology, Buying & Merchandising, Supply Chain and Retail.

The ideal candidate will bring a problem-solver with experience of leading change initiatives.

As a Senior Project Manager you’ll:

• Spot and prioritise opportunities to improve how we work, building a case for change and getting buy-in from key stakeholders.
• Successfully manage and own projects end-to-end by defining requirements, creating a plan, managing risks and dependencies, embedding change and driving continuous improvement once the change has landed.
• Build strong relationships across all levels of seniority, bringing people together to solve problems, and deliver through cross-functional teams.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of the processes and systems utilised across the business and work with cross-functional stakeholders to transform them to allow us to unlock our strategic ambitions.
• Role model positive, collaborative and agile ways of working with all areas of the business.

Our Commercial Change team would love to see:

• Proven organisational and change project management skills, you thrive on planning and coordinating and can manage risks, dependencies and complex priorities
• Key strength in stakeholder management and adapting communication to the target audience.
• Naturally collaborative with the ability to build great relationships and work effectively across multi-functional teams.
• Experienced embedding changing across technology, people and process.
• You are comfortable with dealing with ambiguity, working in an agile way.
• You love problem solving, simplifying complexity and have an ability to make it happen, at pace.
• You are naturally curious and like to challenge the status quo.
• PRINCE2/Agile/Six Sigma and process optimisation experience preferred.

Why Sainsbury’s?

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

As well as a great work-life balance, lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, click here for more detail on our benefits: https://sainsburys.jobs/working-for-us/benefits/

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