Technical Programme Manager

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
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This is a Technical Programme Manager role within the Commercial area.
We are an ambitious Programme; Product & Engineering Team at Tesco aiming to deliver value and quality to Tesco; in particular Suppliers and Buyers by creating more self-sufficient; cost-effective; informative applications to assist users to complete their day to day activities.
Few of the key programmes in this portfolio include
- Enhancing Product Induction
- One onboarding journey for all Supplier & Partner types
- Enabling Key Business Programmes (Marketplace)
These programmes contribute significantly to the strategic objectives of the organization including closely working with multiple stakeholders & partners delivering bespoke technology services and new Service Model Processes within the business to deliver towards one of our Big 6 Objectives: “To build Trusted Partnerships”
Some of the key activities of the role are:
- Deliver complex programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities
- Establish new or improve existing programme delivery methodology to deliver the programme goals
- Shape programmes with ambiguous scope and uncertain delivery approach
- Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals; including the technical implementation plan; ensuring colleagues and stakeholders from across Tesco are kept up to date
- Provide advice and guidance on programme delivery (line management and mentoring other TPMs and supporting Engineering/Product teams)
- 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
- Able to foresee potential risks and issues; establish a process; facilitate discussion; and manage escalations
- Am aware and evaluate trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery
- Able to understand 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
- Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements
- Build positive relationships with suppliers & external stakeholders to deliver software or professional services; holding them to account on delivery and improvement plans
- Support vendor selection processes (tendering; agreeing SLAs; warranty periods; outsourcing)
- Facilitate and support the development of individuals
- Communicate clear objectives and career path for any direct reports
- Coach peers and other roles; teaching where required; on methodologies and programme management tools and coach/mentor on leadership
- Participate in the recruitment process
- Contribute actively to TPM community

An ideal candidate must have demonstrated below key skills in their current and past roles:
Have a proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology
Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams
Strong Project; Stakeholder & Programme management skills
Strong vendor management and negotiating skills.
Exceptional reporting skills for programs and financial forecasting
Excellent communication & influencing skills and adaptability to changes