Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 21 April 2025
Requisition ID: 299084
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
In a nutshell
This role will own the oversight and aggregation of all programmes and technology initiatives that align to a specific Business Portfolio. They will work closely with the Business stakeholders, Product reps and Product Ops to understand the required business outcomes and understand relative priorities. They will work closely with the Heads of Programme Management (Portfolio) and Heads of Delivery (Engineering) to understand progress, risks and share business related impacts of any deviation from plans.
What I am accountable for
1. Accountability for one or more Business change Portfolio.
2. Close familiarity with the total scope and live deliveries in your area of technology including programme and initiative dependencies, timelines, plans, key decisions and risks.
3. Brilliant partnering with other disciplines in the portfolio to maintain a live view of the health of the plan.
4. Acting as a critical friend to the team you work with, putting your judgement to work as the pair of eyes free of the day to day that can spot and raise early any concerns with the total plan.
5. The efficient application and embedding of the governance and processes designed in our PMO teams at a local level, working with this team to ensure all activities add value and minimise duplication.
6. Contribution to and collation of stakeholder and leadership-friendly updates for your area in collaboration with delivery/programme colleagues and product.
7. Supporting the delivery teams to achieve measurable outcomes supporting business priorities and ensuring benefits are realised.
8. Understanding the impacts of change programmes and aligning with the Head of Enablement and team to ensure that changes to the business / those impacted are managed seamlessly.
What I need to know
Essential
1. Proven experience in delivering business projects or programmes.
2. Experience with managing and resolving problems.
3. Highly experienced in stakeholder management.
4. Experience of multiple methodologies, hybrid delivery models and agile practices.
Desirable
1. Retail Experience.
2. Prior line management.
3. Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, PRINCE2 or equivalent qualification.
What I need to show
1. Creating a culture of shared ownership for delivery whilst demonstrating personal accountability for business outcomes.
2. Expertise in fostering cultural change and driving engagement.
3. A solution-focused mindset with creativity and adaptability.
4. Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management skills.
Our Valued Behaviours are our common DNA that every colleague should live by and provide the benchmark for how we deliver our goals/individual contribution, and how we relate to other colleagues in the organisation.
• Own it
* Do what you say you’ll do.
* Don’t walk past a problem.
• Make it better
* Improve things for your customer.
* Spot opportunities to simplify.
• Be human
* Walk in the shoes of your colleagues and customers.
* Show care and respect to everyone.
In addition to role modelling the Valued Behaviours, all People Managers should be consistently driving all four Leadership Performance Expectations, all the time. The Leadership Performance Expectations are:
Obsessed with the customer
* You must: Use data and insight to understand customer needs and solve customer problems.
* Use our Purpose to support decision making everyday.
* Role model living our customer commitments and guide teams to do the same.
Obsessed with performance
* You must: Know and be accountable for your part to play, delivering it brilliantly.
* Align team goals and ruthlessly prioritise resources to deliver our Customer Commitments.
* Assign clear accountabilities, hold people accountable (in your team and out) and act on performance both good and bad.
Lead beyond boundaries
* You must: Actively share and seek to understand the big picture, both internal and external.
* Story tell our Next Level Sainsbury’s strategy to drive end-to-end thinking.
* Build productive partnership inside and outside our organisation.
Lead fearless teams
* You must: Create the environment for diverse perspective and challenge, where we are always looking to raise the bar.
* Grow everyone around you (up, down and across) through adult-to-adult feedback and coaching.
* Know yourself (strengths, weaknesses and impact on others) and continuously develop.
Support we will provide
• Full system and process training for the role.
• Wider Portfolio team for direction and guidance.
• Access to personal development tools e.g. Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, internal mentoring etc.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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