Senior Project Manager

Why join us 

By joining us as a Senior Project Manager, you'll have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our organisation through managing large-scale projects that drive change across the business. As a problem-solver and collaborative leader, you will work with cross-functional teams, building strong relationships and delivering effective solutions. With a focus on continuous improvement and embracing agile ways of working, you will play a vital role in transforming processes, systems, and ways of working, unlocking our strategic ambitions. In Commercial Change, we value your expertise, provide opportunities for growth, and offer a dynamic and supportive environment where you can thrive and make a real difference. Join us to be part of a team that is passionate about driving positive change and shaping the future of our organisation. 

What you'll do 

As a Senior Project Manager at Sainsbury's, you will be responsible for managing multiple change initiatives that impact the ways of working for hundreds of people across the organisation. In an agile working environment, you will adapt to challenges and deliver leading-edge solutions. Working in a matrix structure, you will have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects, such as transforming processes and systems, implementing large-scale tech changes, driving change across our stores, space, range and display initiatives and identifying ways to reduce plastic usage. Your role will involve spotting and prioritising opportunities for improvement, gaining buy-in from key stakeholders, and managing projects end-to-end, from defining requirements to embedding change and driving continuous improvement. Building strong relationships across seniority levels and collaborating with cross-functional teams will be essential in delivering successful outcomes. As a senior project manager, you will also play a vital role in transforming processes and systems to support the organisation's strategic ambitions. It is important to have a proven track record in organisational and change project management, stakeholder management, and the ability to navigate complex priorities. Your strong understanding of technology and experience in embedding change across technology, people, and processes will contribute to your success in this role. Agility, problem-solving skills, and a natural curiosity to challenge the status quo will be key drivers in achieving business objectives. Preferred experience in PRINCE2, Agile, Six Sigma, and process optimisation will be advantageous. 

Who you are 

You are a highly skilled professional with a proven track record in leading and landing change initiatives. With your strong organisational and change project management skills, you excel in planning, coordinating, and managing risks and complex priorities. You are equally as comfortable stepping into the detail to map processes and run stakeholder workshops as you are thinking strategically when designing future ways of working or presenting to senior stakeholders. Your ability to build strong relationships and adapt communication to diverse stakeholders enables you to successfully collaborate across multi-functional teams. Your deep understanding of technology, coupled with an ability to solve complex business problems and experience of embedding change across technology, people, and processes, allows you to confidently lead complex, large-scale tech change projects impacting multiple functions within the business. With your natural curiosity, problem-solving mindset, and agility in dealing with ambiguity, you are motivated to challenge the status quo and drive continuous improvement. Ideally, you have a strong understanding of the Commercial Retail environment and you possess qualifications such as PRINCE2, Agile, Six Sigma, and process optimisation expertise, further enhancing your ability to deliver exceptional results in this role. 

Essential Criteria 

• Proven track record in successfully implementing change projects 

• Strong organisational and change project management skills 

• Ability to adapt communication to diverse stakeholders across all levels including up to senior management and collaborate across multi-functional teams 

• Experience in embedding change across large complex organisations and highly effective in business problem-solving 

• Demonstrated the ability to work autonomously, driven, curious and tenacious  

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