Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Hybrid Full-Time Apply by 25-Jul-2025
About the role
Technical Programme Managers (TPMs) deliver complex, cross-functional technology programmes that support colleagues and help serve our customers better. They work collaboratively, influence Product, Engineering and business colleagues and lead the programme to deliver value quickly and often.
What is in it for you
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- 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
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
· 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
This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.
You will need
An ideal candidate must have demonstrated below key skills in their current and past roles:
· A proven record of accomplishment in delivering large programs at global scales.
· Experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior & leadership teams
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience
· The ability to influence without authority.
· Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, self-starter
· Demonstrate resilience during change and continue delivery
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.