Project Manager

Salary: Competitive

Location: Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GA

United Kingdom

Apply by: 14/05/2024


Project Manager

Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City AL7 1GA

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About the role

Working within Business Support, you will deliver streams of work crafted to support and improve our stores and operating model ensuring we always serve customers, communities and the planet a little better everyday. Inspiring change, you will be willing to stretch and develop yourself, working collaboratively to come up with simple, effective solutions for customers and colleagues.

You will be responsible for

  • Ensuring 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
  • Allocating resource and engaging with relevant subject matter experts, leading and motivating them to contribute to the delivery of the project
  • Managing risk and issues, setting up and leading a clear governance programme
  • Managing interdependencies and any potential conflicts, working with others for to deliver the project objectives/scope and for the good of customers, colleagues & planet
  • Designing a clear implementation programme, working with the people and communications teams as required
  • 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 valued
  • Knowing your stuff, sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm, they way you manage makes Tesco a great place to work and shop
  • Taking ownership of processes and systems, making sure they are effective and efficient; you spot issues and swiftly find the best simplest solutions
  • Understanding how technology is key to the future of Tesco, making sure digital is part of key decisions
  • Being flexible in your approach, you are 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
  • Closing projects down once complete and completing 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
  • Following our business code of conduct and always acting with integrity/due diligence

You will need

  • Retail operations experience
  • Analytical and critical thinker
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Financial awareness
  • Excellent prioritisation skills
  • Microsoft Office knowledge

 

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What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

  • Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
  • Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
  • Private medical insurance
  • Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
  • Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
  • 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 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
  • The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
  • 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
  • A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
  • Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
  • Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
  • Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About us

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.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. 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.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

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