Technical Project Manager

1 month ago


Farringdon UK, Central London, United Kingdom Tesco Technology Full time

TPM - Retail Media Capabilities


About Tesco


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.


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 in the UK - Farringdon, London


This role will report to Lead Technical Programme Manager within the Tesco Retail Media organisation.


About the Tesco Retail Media Team


The Retail Media team has a strong foundation in developing capability that drives significant benefit to Tesco, our customers and to suppliers.

Through the creation and management of Media opportunities within core online journeys, we can bring product inspiration to our customers, give suppliers the chance to reach customers with relevant and personalised Media propositions, and in turn drive profit for Tesco.


To date, we have developed strong Media capabilities that have enabled a c.30% growth in Media revenue coming from Online channels, with aspirations to further increase this in coming years.

In order to achieve this, we will be looking to significantly enhance and mature our media capabilities both in terms of how users experience them, and how we can monitor and improve.


This role is an opportunity to be a key part in driving delivery of our core technology plan, which underpins the future goals of the UK Retail Media organisation, primarily supporting our ambitious goals to drive incremental revenue growth for Tesco. Working with several areas within Tesco, and alongside multiple third parties, we aim to lead the market in our Retail media capabilities.


Role:


As a Technical Programme Manager, you will 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.


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:

  • Lead and delivery programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities
  • Managing development: resources, influencing technical direction and coordinating the development of Technology and business facing products.
  • Define and track performance against customer and business KPIs
  • Managing Risks and Issues and influencing multiple dependent teams
  • Establish new or improve existing delivery methodology to deliver the programme goals
  • Create and track a plan to deliver the programme goals, including the technical implementation plan. Owning the release plan and stakeholder communication and weekly Governance
  • Understand trade-offs in delivery, using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with our Business, Technology and Engineering teams to obtain the best value and solution
  • Able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion, and manage escalations
  • Act on opportunities to adopt trends and new concepts in programme and product delivery
  • Able to understand and drive a technical architecture to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans
  • Have good knowledge of System, Software and Data engineering and implementations best practices to appreciate delivery challenges
  • 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 and coach/mentor on leadership
  • Take a leading role in the recruitment process and make final recruitment decisions
  • Leading other TPMs in the team and coordinating their plans into wider programme plan
  • Play an active leadership role in the TPM guild and community – proactively influencing capability and capacity planning for TPMs
  • Have influencing skill using documentation and presentations as tools to find alignment across Technology and Finance stakeholders


Key Skills and Experience


An ideal candidate must have demonstrated below key skills in their current and past roles:

  • A knowledge of Agile methodology and a record of producing positive change in teams
  • A proven track record of delivery of complex technology across multiple teams and influencing product, engineering, and business colleagues
  • Working effectively with and leading multi-disciplinary teams and understanding how to contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
  • Thinking at a conceptual level across several platforms
  • Ability to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.


Additional relevant experience:


  • Have a proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology across multiple teams in multiple geographies
  • Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams
  • Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter


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