Project Manager - Product Transformation

You will plan and organise resources and people to make sure the agreed project outcomes are delivered within budget and timelines.

This is a highly visible role, providing you with an excellent opportunity to work closely with Senior Management.

You’ll have the satisfaction of owning the project from inception to delivery, supported by your colleagues within Product Transformation.

The role offers considerable breadth and you’ll have the benefit of working with other functions to broaden your knowledge of the business and deliver medium to large scale transformation projects that result in significant change to Tesco globally.

- Setting up governance forums by engaging key sponsors and subject matter experts.
- Building project business cases (incl. agreeing scope and objectives) and identifying critical success factors.
- Managing key stakeholders and dependencies to establish ways of work and alignment of approaches.
- Producing the initial project plan, subsequently tracking and reporting progress to the governance forum.
- Supporting to map and record the future state of the process architecture using Aris.
- Designing and implementing global simplification opportunities.
- Setting up project/team budgeting, planning and deliverable creation processes.
- Identifying and managing project risks and issues, escalating where appropriate.
- Implementing projects on time and on budget.
- Working closely with Change Managers to land change effectively and sustainably.
- Managing the project team at the same time as supporting team member on the job learning.
- Tracking project benefits after go-live against the original business case and critical success factors.
- Capturing lessons learned in conjunction with team members and other key stakeholders.
- Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.

You will need

- Project Management experience within a complex large organisation framework.
- Experience of delivering process improvement using relevant methodologies.
- Experience of managing stakeholders outside of direct team to achieve a common goal.
- Experience of building a Business Case and tracking delivery against this.

Key Teams you will work with:

- Product Transformation & Operations teams.
- Product Commercial teams.
- Customer, Finance, Legal and Technology teams.
- Business Services teams.

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues. It is part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work and we are proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.

We are the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, we have a vast variety of roles and we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business. We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone is welcome and truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings to enable us to serve our shoppers a little better every day. We strive to create a workforce that reflects our customers not only here in the UK, but worldwide. Our aim is to attract and welcome a diverse range of applicants from all walks of life and we would love to hear from you!

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren’t limited to:

• An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary
• Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day
• A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• Buy As You Earn Scheme
• Save As You Earn Scheme
• Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank
• Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses