The programmes and planning team works with a strong team of programme managers to define, implement and enable the delivery of key programmes across Security. This role will work with all security and stakeholder teams to review and control the security portfolio, working alongside the STPM to assist in managing governance, reporting, planning and improvement of processes, ultimately working to protect the financial investment and return of the portfolio.
The individual will report to the Senior Technical Programme Manager and be responsible for securing investment of initiatives and standardising the way the portfolio is controlled, ensuring stakeholder buy-in and effective levels of governance are in place. The role will include:
- Work alongside colleagues in Security and Capability to manage the governance, planning, reporting and improvement of processes
- Work with the Senior Technical Programme Manager to communicate and maintain the consistent set of programme, workstream and project management standards, guidance and templates to be used by the Programme team
- Ensure a consistent approach to how teams record and monitor all workstream risks, issues and dependencies ensuring all are identified and tracked appropriately
- Analyse and produce reports on department/portfolio status, resource and finance position
- Support the creation and implementation of processes and reporting across teams to monitor achievement of committed programme goals, ensuring colleagues and stakeholders from across Tesco are kept up to date
- Provide advice and guidance on programme delivery (line management and 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
- Able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion, and manage escalations
- Have the financial acumen to be able to secure, manage and track investment funding and foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans
- Collaborate across Product and Engineering teams to define and comply with annual budgetary requirements
- Build positive relationships with suppliers & external stakeholders to deliver software or professional services, holding them to account on delivery and improvement plans
- Support vendor selection processes - managing the overarching maintenance portfolio, recommending areas for improvement
- Communicate clear objectives and career path for any direct reports
- Coach peers and other roles, teaching where required, on methodologies and programme management tools and coach/mentor on leadership
- Participate in the recruitment process
- Contribute actively to TPM community
Essential:
- Experience of working within a programme function overseeing management of an investment portfolio
- Experience of working within a security function for a major retail organisation
- Strong inter-personal skills
- Strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
- Have experience of building credible relationships and influencing senior management & leadership teams
- Strong vendor management and negotiating skills.
- Exceptional reporting skills for programs and financial forecasting
- Excellent communication & influencing skills and adoptability to changes
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.
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