Sainsburys Tech - Delivery Manager C5 - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract Opportunity 

Why join us
When you join Sainsbury's Tech as a Delivery Manager, you become part of a dynamic, multi-channel, multi-brand company that serves millions of customers each day. Our commitment to innovation and cutting-edge technology means you'll be working with the most exciting data set in the UK, developing scalable and high-performance products that enhance the shopping experience for millions of people. In an inclusive and agile environment, you'll have the freedom to explore your curiosity, experiment with ideas, and tackle real-world challenges. Your contributions and creations will have a tangible impact on our customers and the broader organisation. With the opportunity to work collaboratively with talented teams and renowned technology partners, joining us means embracing a culture of constant learning and growth, all while delivering value at pace and making a difference in the retail industry.

What you'll do
As a Delivery Manager at Sainsbury's Tech, you will take on a pivotal role in leading and supporting the delivery of transformational work across teams and the broader organisation. Your primary focus will be on planning, coordinating, and driving forward the delivery of changes and enhancements to our products, ensuring timely and effective delivery of value. Working closely with engineer managers, you will be responsible for orchestrating the delivery across multiple engineering teams to achieve key business outcomes. This will involve partnering with stakeholders, utilising appropriate delivery methodologies, and managing deployment schedules, while actively identifying and mitigating risks and issues. Additionally, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our delivery practises and play a role in building relationships and communication channels across cross-functional teams and external partners. Overall, your ability to navigate complexity, drive results, and foster collaboration will be essential in shaping the successful delivery of our projects and initiatives.

This role is looking to recruit an experienced Delivery Manager with a passion for all things Digital. You'll be working in our Food portfolio helping drive us towards being truly first choice for food. You'll be working to deliver exciting digital propositions into our online sales channels and into our store network, as such experience within a digital landscape and rolling out technical changes into stores is mandatory for this role. 

Who you are
As a Delivery Manager at Sainsbury's, you are an experienced and dynamic professional who excels in driving forward and delivering transformational changes and enhancements to our products. With a strong understanding and certification in Agile methodology, you have a proven track record in software and Agile project delivery, effectively coordinating and leading multiple engineering teams to achieve key business outcomes. Your exceptional communication skills enable you to build strong relationships with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and third-party partners, ensuring effective collaboration and successful project delivery. With your strong people skills and ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity, you inspire and motivate others, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and driving innovation within the organisation.

Essential Criteria:

Extensive experience as a Project/Delivery Manager, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi-team initiatives within a technical landscape and matrix organisation including one or more technical domain:   Software Development incl. Web & Apps  Hardware and Devices  Application Development  Cloud & Infrastructure  Networks/Connectivity 
  Experience delivering change within a regulated & compliant technical landscape & into business operations –  partnering with Legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, information security, architecture & service teams.
  Highly proficient in building delivery plans, status tracking & reporting, RAIDD within a company-wide governance framework. 
  Proven experience in managing technical & business stakeholders  to deliver key change activities across multiple teams concurrently, such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management and project / change budgets.
  Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships with 3rd party technology partners/vendors. 
  Certifications - at least one of the below:  Project/Program management frameworks: PMBOK, APM, PRINCE2 or similar  Agile PM, SAFe Release Train Engineer / SAFe Agilist or similar