Programme Lead - London, United Kingdom - Sainsburys

Sainsburys

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Programme Lead - 2Yr FTC

2 Year Fixed Term Contract D)

Flexible hybrid working from home with a base at one of our offices in
:London or Coventry.

We're always looking for the brightest talent to bring fresh energy, experience, and inspiration to our vibrant, collaborative environment.

With over 189,000 colleagues who are critical to the long-term success of our business, we're committed to being an inclusive employer where everybody is treated fairly and with respect and are encouraged to develop their skills and fulfil their potential.

And, wherever you join us, you can take pride in making a real difference to millions of customers' lives.

In this exciting role as a Programme Lead, you will work within the Supply Chain Transformation team, partnering closely with the Head of Supply Chain Transformation and Programme to lead all Programme management and governance activity across our end-to-end programme and managing a team Project Managers and PMO's (8 colleagues, 4 direct reports).Owning the overall programme plan and governance you will work collaboratively with our Tech, Change and Strategy teams to deliver joined up outcomes and ensure we unlock value as quickly as possible for our colleagues.

You will chair all programme governance meetings, ensuring appropriate stakeholder management and escalation processes are adhered to and lead the Portfolio/PMO Manager to design and embed governance best practice.

You will ensure we have strong risk, issue, change and dependency management, both internal and external to the programme and continually review manage assumptions, risks and issues with Project Owners in support of positive outcomes, supporting facilitation of problem solving across teams as appropriate.

You will be responsible for ensuring regular, high-quality engagement with senior leadership team (up to and including director level) to stay abreast of key programme developments & ensure a broad understand across the programme.

You will work closely with Strategy leads to ensure we are realising benefits from business case and delivering our long term strategy.

Working cross functionally with a number of different stakeholders can be challenging so we are looking for someone who.

Has programme experience across complex change programmes working in agile/hybrid approach
Has experience running governance of complex programmes with ability to facilitate governance meetings and drive desired outcomes, including escalating where appropriate.
Has experience working with senior stakeholders, keeping them informed of critical activities and distilling the detail into clear high level summaries to keep focus on priorities
Understands different project/programme methodologies
Challenges timelines to ensure realistic and achievable
Creates clarity in ambiguity and is resilient to moving timelines, with the ability to interpret changes to understand what it means for the business
Communicates with colleagues in an engaging and inspiring way, understanding the outcomes of the projects you govern and the role we all play to achieve the required outcomes.
Can build great working relationships and a strong network across the team.
Excellent written communication skills and ability to use Microsoft PowerPoint to a high degree of competence.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role.

We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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Primary Location:
GB-GB-London

Other Locations:
GB-GB-Coventry

Work Locations:
Holborn Store Support Centre and Home Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd 33 Holborn London EC1N 2HT

Job:
Logistics (Central)

Schedule:
Full-time

Advertised Salary Competitive