Head of Strategic Programmes

5 months ago


Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom Tesco Full time

About the role
This is an exciting role within our Group Strategy team who help define the overall strategy for Tesco Group and oversee it's delivery. If you are looking for a role where you can build a broader network or gain experience working across multiple functions, this is perfect for you

We are looking for someone with strong leadership skills who can bringing clarity and structure whilst leading peers and more senior colleagues to deliver critical business priorities.

This role is split across three areas; ensuring execution of long running strategic priorities, solving specific strategic challenges and overseeing the process by which strategy is devised and delivered.

Your primary focus will be on delivering and evolving one of our long term strategic priorities.

You will be responsible for
- Contribute across all Group Strategy work through active participation in the leadership team and the planning cycle
- Define and scope the strategic priorities you lead, establishing clear direction by shaping the ambition, priorities and business cases
- Build cross functional programme teams to establish and embed ways of working
- Establish and facilitate the appropriate levels of governance to provide strategic oversight and direction for the programmes
- Manage interdependencies and impacts across portfolios/programmes
- Drive progress in a consistent, transparent way, and to identify and manage issues and risks, dependencies, and opportunities

You will need
- Significant experience developing and delivering Strategy in a large corporate environment
- A proven track record of delivering complex and sustained change at substantial scale
- Demonstrable experience of managing cross functional project teams including peers and senior leaders
- Experience of influencing senior stakeholders and facilitating challenging governance sessions

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. Please talk to us about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

What’s in it for you
We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work These include but aren’t limited to:

- Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays)
- Car allowance of £7,320 per annum
- Private medical insurance offered by Bupa
- Retirement savings plan - save between 6% and 10% and Tesco will match at a rate of x1.5
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- 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 benefits we have available for our colleagues



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