Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Hybrid Full-Time Apply by 30-May-2025
About the role
Our core purpose at Tesco is Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. Everything we do begins and ends with our customers. By understanding our customers, we can anticipate and respond to their needs and expectations. The role we play in the thousands of communities we serve is vital – whether it's creating good jobs, supporting local suppliers and producers, or helping local causes through our community programmes. Our commitment to sustainability is core to our business. It drives our work across our own operations and our supply chain to reduce our environmental impact and support a healthier way of living.
We use tech to make things a little better for everyone, every day. We love coming up with our own ideas and building things ourselves. We empower our technologists to play a part in Tesco’s future. Solving crunchy tech problems, making customers’ lives a little easier, and making a difference to our communities and the planet.
Our Technology team is made up of over 3,500 experts spread over 5 countries: UK, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and India. These teams all have one thing in common – helping solve problems at a global scale.
Whether making products, software or systems, our teams each focus on a particular area, taking strategic ownership of the architecture, design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems in their domain, to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations, and maximum business impact.
We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our stakeholders. Passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities.
If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.
About Forecasting & Ordering
Forecasting and Ordering is the Programme Function supporting Supply Chain. We’re passionate about giving our customers what they want, when they want it. Our aim is to get thousands of products from factories and farms around the world to the shelf edge (virtual and physical) so that we can satisfy millions of customers every week – simply put: right product, right place, right time.
We recognise that the constantly changing demands of our customers' lives mean that as a business, we need to continue to innovate our offering so that they can shop with us in the way they want, when they want to. Delivering this challenge means that we are frequently re-inventing our Supply Chain to make sure it is always leading-class. Supply Chain initiatives seek to improve availability, reduce costs and optimise stock holding. Our job is to make sure that every one of our 75 million weekly global customers can get what they want – when, where and however they want it
Within Technology we cover a breadth of systems from Retail Demand Forecasting, Order Optimisers, Continuous Replenishment, Group Ordering, Stock Services & enabled with our front-end Tesco Connect. The Supply Chain systems include a wide breadth of technology from Mainframe to Hadoop coding in multiple languages but the most common being Java. The Supply Chain systems continue to be enhanced but also undertake step change improvements.
An effective supply chain provides competitive advantage for all retailers, through predicting customer demand accurately, ensuring that all customers get the products they need (instore & online), optimising ordering keeping supplier and Warehouse constraints in mind and thereby directly influence product availability, capturing an accurate view of Stock across Tesco and providing the best-in-class application for supply chain users.
In addition, all this needs to be done whilst keeping waste to a minimum and optimal stock holding, in turn keep our operational costs under control and helps the bottom line. Work is fun since we are building better capabilities on newer platforms be it transforming our forecasting intelligence to better algorithms on big data platforms, developing Optimisation algorithms, Enterprise level APIs.
What is in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 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
- 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
You will be responsible for
As a TPM for Supply Chain Data & Forecasting, you will play a pivotal role working with the Product Managers , business stakeholders, Engineering teams, and other Programme family member to define and deliver the change to enable the transformation.
You would be responsible for managing a part of the Tech programme. This could include:
· Managing a part of the Supply Chain budget
· Stakeholder communication of progress
· Dependency management with engineering teams who currently support the Supply Chain systems
· Supporting & managing our technology vendor partners
· Business case and funding approval for the Supply Chain programme
The Role – Technical Programme Manager
Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:
· Deliver programmes with business and/or technical risks
· Optimise or use a standard programme delivery methodology for delivering programme goals (e.g. agile, waterfall, iterative)
· Bring together, coordinate and energise virtual technology teams to deliver programme goals
· Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan
· Understand trade-offs and resulting impacts; make impacts visible to Product, Infrastructure or Engineering for the right decision to be made
· Managing dependencies, delivery timelines and implementations plans, using my knowledge of technical architecture
· Appreciating and responding to delivery challenges, using my knowledge of engineering best practices and/or infrastructure implementations
· Understand technology concepts, grasp new ones quickly and appreciate their implications on delivery
· Effectively manage major incidents, ensuring stakeholders are updated with the right information to drive the correct decisions
· Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements
· Build positive relationships with suppliers & external stakeholders to deliver software or professional services
· Coach peers and other roles, teaching where required, on methodologies and programme management tools
You will need
An ideal candidate must have demonstrated below key skills in their current and past roles:
· Have a proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology and/or infrastructure; having done so across multiple teams in multiple geographies
· Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams
· Strong Project, Stakeholder & Programme management skills
· Strong vendor management and negotiating skills.
· Exceptional reporting skills for programs and financial forecasting
· Excellent communication & influencing skills and adoptability to changes
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.