Tesco Hungary Hybrid Full-Time Apply by 31-Mar-2026
About the role
The Online CE Programme role focuses on driving the delivery of strategic online initiatives across Central Europe, ensuring alignment with Tesco’s technology and business objectives. This role is responsible for coordinating complex, cross-functional programmes that enhance both web and app experiences, improve operational efficiency, and support customer growth. It involves managing dependencies across multiple markets, overseeing governance processes, and ensuring timely execution of outcomes such as capacity optimisation, loyalty propositions, and platform convergence.
Specifically, the role will own and deliver the consolidated OneApp feature set across both in-store and online shopping experiences for the Central Europe (CE) markets, landing agreed regional outcomes in the next financial year. As CE converges onto the group technology platform, the role will evolve to take on wider parts of the group strategy.
What is in it for you
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you chose to join our business, we will provide you with:
- Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
- Yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
- Extensive private healthcare - complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services, and free flu vaccination
- Cafeteria
- Relocation Help - professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents
- Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight, and O'Reilly
- Referral Bonus
- Learning culture and excellent opportunities to develop your career within your chosen field or something altogether new
- Varied and exciting projects to play a part in – there is always something new and exciting in the pipeline
If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.
You will be responsible for
· End-to-end delivery: Lead multi-disciplinary squads to ship OneApp capabilities (iOS/Android/Web) from discovery through launch across CE markets; manage dependencies spanning identity, payments, checkout, fulfilment, and store operations.
· Outcome & delivery plan ownership: Help define clear OKRs and a rolling delivery plan to deliver next-FY outcomes (customer adoption, sales and profit targets and performance).
· Governance & execution: Run integrated plans, RAID and cross-market releases; simplify and deprecate regional variants; ensure readiness and online release quality.
· Platform alignment: Accelerate convergence to the group tech platform; lead migration and change management with local business and tech stakeholders.
· Stakeholder management: Build strong relationships with Product, Engineering, Operations and CE leadership; provide transparent, executive-ready reporting.
· Financials & value: Own budgets, benefits tracking and financial guardrails; ensure delivery efficiency post peak/freeze periods.
· Leadership: Coach and mentor TPMs; champion agile ways of working and continuous improvement.
You will need
· Proven track record leading large, cross-channel app programmes in retail or consumer technology at scale.
· Strong technical breadth across mobile/web, APIs, cloud, observability, and data; able to engage deeply with architects and engineering teams.
· Exceptional programme and stakeholder management; adept at multi-market delivery and dependency resolution.
· Fluent English; a CE language (CZ/SK/HU/PL) is a plus; willing to travel across CE.
· Expertise in Agile/Lean delivery, release management, and outcome-based planning.
About us
Tesco Business Solution and Tesco Technology were established in Budapest in 2019, supporting the Tesco retail business in Central Europe and the Tesco Group. TBST and Tesco Technology are part of our global business services and technology organisations within Tesco.
In the UK, Ireland, India, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic we operate to offer great value to our customers every day.
In Budapest, our Technology hub currently employs more than 200 – and a growing number – of highly trained software engineers and managers who are implementing global software development projects across fulfilment, supplier and product management, online and in-store loss prevention, and our online grocery sites.
Our goal is to bring significant changes to the market by using the latest technologies. We are focusing on a large variety of modern technologies from the backend space and frontend to UX, UI and even data science and engineering.
We are aiming to drive business value through innovation and to create an organization that fundamentally transforms the retail environment.
We put accountability and ownership on the individuals and their teams in order to run a horizontal organization where teamwork is extremely important. With an end-to-end approach, we offer our colleagues opportunities for self-development and career growth.
Our colleagues are the key to our success at Tesco. We foster an environment of openness and collaboration. We draw from the diversity, knowledge and experience of our colleagues. It is all about equal opportunities, no matter who you are, or where you come from, you can get on at Tesco.
Our teams consist of individuals who can truly make a difference. Focussing on building a world-class business services centre alongside cutting-edge technology capability, they are working towards our goal of serving our customers and colleagues a little better every day.
We are expanding our operations locally and we are looking for the best talent.