Project Manager - Payroll Technology - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

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Leads a team of subject matter experts through the end to end project lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of the project. Proactively leads and collaborates with stakeholders within the business to ensure shared ownership for the delivery of business outcomes and realisation of benefits. Drive complex cross-functional change into the organisation through the application of ‘best in class’ project management in a sustainable way. Manage effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control is in place across the delivery of the release.

• End to end delivery of a defined project - primarily focused on digitilisation of payroll processes and transformation of payroll technologies
• 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 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
• 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  to enable successful transition into service

Operational Skills:

• 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:

• 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

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We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• 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
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• 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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