Lead Technical Programme Manager – People Data

Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.

We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we’re finding bigger and better ways to provide it.

Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We’re driving innovation and transforming our Technology to become the world’s leading retailer.

We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; 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.

Joining us means playing a part in defining; building and launching an ambitious roadmap of digital products that could affect the lives of millions of people over the years to come.

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.

The position will be based at our Campus in Welwyn Garden City

About The Colleague Transformation Programme

The purpose of the People Transformation programme is to earn the trust of our colleagues in a simple and helpful way.  The programme aims to provide colleagues with a better experience of working at Tesco, enhanced by technology that’s accessible anywhere and available to everyone. By reducing admin our Managers and People Partners will be able to focus on building teams and capability.

People Data & Reporting Platform

People Data sits at the heart of Tesco’s colleague strategy—enabling trusted, high-quality data to power decision-making, regulatory reporting, and colleague experiences.

The People Data Reporting Platform (PDRP) and associated data products deliver critical capabilities including:

• 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 (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 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.
• This information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details.

• Regulatory reporting (e.g., CSRD)
• Workforce insights (Headcount, DE&I, Absence, Compliance)
• Data products such as dashboards, analytics and forecasting
• Foundational capabilities including data quality, governance, access controls and ingestion frameworks.

The landscape is complex, spanning multiple workstreams, dependencies on business data ownership, and evolving governance and platform capabilities. This role plays a key leadership position in ensuring delivery is coherent, governed, and aligned to business outcomes, so that Tesco can rely on People Data as a trusted foundation for regulatory compliance and strategic decision-making.

The Role: Lead Technical Programme Manager – People Data.

This role is accountable for the end-to-end delivery, governance and integrity of the People Data portfolio, ensuring programmes are aligned to business priorities, regulatory requirements, and enterprise data standards.

You will operate across a complex, multi-programe landscape (PDRP, Workforce dashboards, Compliance, Data Quality, and platform capabilities), bringing clarity, structure and pace to ambiguous and interdependent delivery challenges.

A key focus is driving clear data ownership, governance and accountability across business and technology, ensuring that data products are trusted, scalable, and audit-ready.

In this role I:

·       Deliver complex programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities

·       Line manage a team to help deliver the associated outcome & develop talent within the TPM community

·       Establish new or improve existing delivery methodology to deliver the programme goals

·       Initiate and shape programmes with ambiguous scope and uncertain delivery approach

·       Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan

·       Provide expert advice and guidance on programme delivery (mentoring other TPMs and supporting Engineering/Product teams)

·       Understand trade-offs in software delivery, using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with the Engineering and Product teams to obtain the best value and solution

·       Am able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations

An ideal candidate will have:

·       A proven record of accomplishment in delivering complex, cross-functional data or platform technology programmes having done so across multiple teams and multiple geographies

·       Strong experience in compliance, regulatory, reporting or data and analytics type programmes

·       Experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams

·       Experience in & a passion for People Management

·       Strong Project, Stakeholder & Programme management skills

·       Excellent communication & influencing skills, particularly in translating technical complexity into business outcomes.