Sainsburys Tech - Delivery Lead - In-Store - 10m FTC

 

We can consider a London, Coventry or Manchester base location for this role.

 

As a Delivery Lead in Sainsbury’s Tech, you’ll collaborate with our Product, Engineering, and business teams to support the delivery of our key outcomes and programmes to generate customer, colleague, and business value. With a significant uplift in tech investment in the coming years, we have lots of transformational initiatives to deliver in Sainsbury’s Tech and the Delivery Lead role will play a key part in our success to ensure delivery excellence.

 

This role is at entry level within our Delivery practice and will work alongside our experienced Delivery Managers and Heads of Delivery Management to support teams with project delivery to scope, budget and timelines.

 

More about the role:

Through partnering with cross functional teams in Tech and stakeholders across the business, own the delivery of new products and changes in an agile environment. Work with Delivery Managers to assist in managing the successful delivery of complex multi-team programmes. Operate within multiple delivery approaches and methodologies, whilst maintaining governance frameworks that are appropriate for the outcomes being delivered. Build and maintain underpinned plans, including deployments and rollout schedules. Manage stakeholders and define RACIs to ensure proper ownership of artefacts, decisions, and deliverables. Identify, manage and communicate key risks, issues and dependencies, removing blockers for teams. Work collaboratively with Engineering, Product and other Delivery team members to align on cross team dependencies, surfacing and dealing with conflicting demands, escalating where necessary. Utilise influencing skills to drive decision making with teams and stakeholders. Report progress against key milestones regularly to all stakeholders and into Delivery leadership. Conduct post implementation reviews to drive a culture of continuous improvement and proven value delivery, ensuring that learnings are fed through the wider Tech approach to delivery. Actively contribute to the Delivery Community of Practice.

 

More about you:

Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to analyse and solve problems logically. Bold, curious, and resilient. Comfortable with driving decision making, challenging assumptions and taking risks. Effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships across the business, working in an authentic way. Strong communication skills to convey key messages, tailoring your approach as required to different audiences. A strong awareness and interest in technology and how it fits together to generate value for business and customers. Willing to learn technical language to discuss projects in terms of their outcomes, scope, possible trade-offs, issues and risks. Experience of working in a matrix organisation.

 

Desirable experience:

Knowledge and understanding of a retail business and its technology landscape. Project status tracking and reporting, RAIDD, or experience of working with a company-wide governance framework. Key change delivery activities such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management. Experience working with and managing third party technology partners/vendors. Understanding of project/change budgets and how to manage them.

 

Essential Criteria:

Strong communication skills. Strong stakeholder management experience. Strong organisational skills. An understanding of delivery and key tools and techniques.

 

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