Lead Technical Programme Manager

Tesco Business Services & Technology (TBST) and Tesco Technology were established in Budapest in 2019, supporting the Tesco retail business in Central Europe and the Tesco Group. TBST and Tesco Technology are part of our global business services and technology organisations within Tesco.

In the UK, Ireland, India, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic we operate to offer great value to our customers every day.

In Budapest, our Technology hub currently employs near 100 – and a growing number – of highly trained software engineers and managers who are implementing global software development projects across fulfilment, supplier and product management, online and in-store loss prevention, and our online grocery sites.

Our goal is to bring significant changes to the market by using the latest technologies. We are focusing on a large variety of modern technologies from the backend space and frontend to UX, UI and even data science and engineering.

We are aiming to drive business value through innovation and to create an organization that fundamentally transforms the retail environment.

We put accountability and ownership on the individuals and their teams in order to run a horizontal organization where teamwork is extremely important. With an end-to-end approach, we offer our colleagues opportunities for self-development and career growth.

Our colleagues are the key to our success at Tesco. We foster an environment of openness and collaboration. We draw from the diversity, knowledge and experience of our colleagues. It is all about equal opportunities, no matter who you are, or where you come from, you can get on at Tesco.

Our teams consist of individuals who can truly make a difference. Focussing on building a world-class business services centre alongside cutting-edge technology capability, they are working towards our goal of serving our customers and colleagues a little better every day.

We are expanding our operations locally and we are looking for the best talent. 

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What's in it for you

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:

• Yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
• Minimum 25 days of paid holiday/year for everyone
• Extensive private healthcare - complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services, and free flu vaccination
• Cafeteria 
• A learning culture and excellent opportunities to develop your career within your chosen field or something altogether new
• Varied and exciting projects to play a part in – there is always something new and exciting in the pipeline

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you!

As a Lead Technical Programme Manager for Price Lifecycle service, you will deliver complex, cross-functional technology programmes for "Price Transformation" Initiatives which including building the next generation pricing tech to support Price optimization. These programs are designed around supporting our colleagues who are responsible for governing the prices and help serve our customers better. Work collaboratively, influence Product, Engineering and business colleagues across Price Lifecycle, Promotion Lifecycle, Label rendering engine and some of the legacy products such as IRE, RPM , Adapters and lead the programme to deliver value quickly and often.

The programs will all be be cross cutting across the Pricing and Product Induction domain including the myProduct Suite (Apps), Optimizers (built by various DS teams), different price APIs (PriceLifecycle, PromoLifecycle, LRE, Quote, SVS etc)

In this role, you are responsible for -

• Deliver complex programmes associated to Price domain (across different sub domains within Price including Promotions, Clearances) with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities
• Create and track a plan to deliver the overall programme goals, including the technical implementation plan, ensuring colleagues and stakeholders from across Tesco are kept up-to-date. Where Delegation is necessary, make the TPMs accountable for the plans and help them navigate through challenging phases by helping them build consensus
• 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
• You should be able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations
• To be successful in the role as an LTPM understanding the technical architecture of the pricing domain to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans is important. Eg a cross cutting initiative could be dependent on myProductPrice as an upstream, Quote API and SVS as a downstream for the Price/Promo Lifecycle APIs with cross functional dependency on Location API. Understanding the high level architecture is key for success when driving the program
• Develop good knowledge of engineering best practices and practical infrastructure implementations to appreciate delivery challenges in Price Lifecycle and Promotion Lifecycle domain
• Collaborate with the TPM, Product and Engineering Managers to define annual budgetary requirements for all squads under team 201
• Build positive relationships with stakeholders such as Central Pricing Team to deliver software or professional services, holding them to account on delivery and improvement plans
• Vendor management is also a key priority in this role involving managing purchase orders for AMC contracts, be the single point of contact for vendors managing the Applications and holding them accountable for the software delivery
• Mentor, Coach and groom TPMs under this area to be successful.
• Contribute actively to TPM community

Key engineering and product teams that you would work internally on a daily basis –

• Promotion Lifecycle API squads – Based out of Budapest (Primary)
• Price Lifecycle API squads – Based out of India (through an embedded TPM for the Price squads)
• Third party vendor teams (Weigandt) who manages RPM and IRE – Based out of UK and Europe
• Label Rendering Engine – Based out of India

Key engineering and product teams across functional area that you would be working with to deliver an End to End program (on need basis) –

• Quote (Enquiry APIs)
• myProduct Promotion
• myProduct Price
• myProduct Induct
• Dunnhmby (Data science)
• Tesco Data Science (For Clearances)
• Tesco Location API
• Stored Value service
• TAP

• Experience in driving large programs across domains
• Exposure to pricing domain and understanding of retail platform is an added advantage