Lead Project Manager

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We are recruiting a Lead Project Manager to work within Business Support to manage and align streams of work for channels, ensuring we always serve customers, communities and the planet a little better everyday. You will be agile in your approach, working across different areas of our Business Support operations to ensure plans are aligned in support of the Service Delivery Model and our strategic goals/drivers and partner with stakeholders across Tesco, working with others to deliver objectives, manage dependencies and deliver measurable improvements. 

• Leading the Project Managers within the Transformation team to ensure Tesco project management principles are followed including stakeholder management, set up/organisation of the project, budget set up/controlled with cost savings delivered and communicating with/motivating natural work team members
• Ensuring clear definition of the project and scope from the start, ensuring the project always remains on track and in scope and each Project Manager manages and delivers a tangible set of results
• Allocating resource and engaging with relevant subject matter experts, leading and motivating the Project Managers to deliver the end to end requirements of the project/programmes of work
• Managing risks and issues with the Project Managers, setting up and leading a clear governance programme for all projects
• Ensuring the delivery of good quality change management processes to ensure longevity and sustainability of the project being delivered
• Being accountable to deliver the save to invest plan
• Ensuring the team budget accordingly and forecast as accurately as possible highlighting any financial risks when the occur in a timely manner
• Managing interdependencies and any potential conflicts and monitoring progress of delivery and updating stakeholders including business leaders on the deliverables
• Achieving great results by inspiring, engaging and leading others; you make our customers and colleagues feel value
• Taking ownership of processes and systems, making sure they are effective and efficient; you spot issues and swiftly find the best simplest solutions
• Be flexible and able to manage various projects and programmes of work across different areas within Business Support, improving different parts of the shopping trip for customers or simplifying our operations with new initiatives
• Supporting closing projects down once complete and ensuring a post implementation review, to understand the lessons learned, sharing these with stakeholders and ensuring continuous improvements on ‘the what’ and ‘the how’ is in place
• Setting clear objectives and reviewing the teams performance through 1:1 meetings, Inspiring Great Performance Every Day and everyday conversations
• Following our business code of conduct and always acting with integrity/due diligence

• Retail operations experience
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking
• Excellent attention to detail
• Financial awareness
• Prioritisation skills
• Microsoft Office
• Line management experience ideal but not essential

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We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 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 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• 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

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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.