• Job Description

  Req#: 209576

  Sainsburys Tech - Delivery Manager C5

  What Sainsbury’s Group is all about

  We’re a multi-channel, multi-brand business (e.g. Sainsbury’s, Argos, Nectar…) serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All of this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match. We live every day by our Valued Behaviours: Own it, Make it Better, Be Human.
  

  Engineering at Sainsbury’s Tech

  We don’t think we’re exaggerating when we say we have the most exciting data set in the UK. And from the insights gained, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that give our customers an amazing shopping experience – like our award-winning Smartshop app. In an inclusive, agile environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges. And you’ll get to see your creations in the hands of millions of people across the UK.
  
  Your Mission at Sainsbury’s Tech and in the Cloud Org
  
  As a Delivery Manager in Cloud, you will lead and support the delivery of transformational work across Cloud Teams and across Sainsburys Tech at large, corralling the work of developer teams for a timely and effective delivery of value. The team is currently supporting the broader company on improving its FinOps posture, as well as conducting strategic PaaS migrations, activities which will welcome the support of this role.
  
  
  What we look for in an Delivery Manager
  
  As Delivery Manager, you'll be a leading force within your engineering team and across the wider business, driving forward and delivering changes and enhancements to our products at pace. This includes some of our most exciting programmes, delivered across multiple teams and spanning the breadth of our multi-channels and multi-brands.
  
  You'll plan, lead and co-ordinate team activity and engage third parties on product and change projects that often require the highest level of thinking. Insightful, trusted and tenacious, you'll navigate the complexity and challenges that come with delivering at pace and build strong relationships with colleagues within your domain and across the organisation.
  
  More about the role:
  

  • You'll play a leading role on your programmes, co-ordinating delivery across a number of engineering teams in order to realise key business outcomes
  • You'll partner with engineering teams and key stakeholders to deliver new products or complex changes, utilising appropriate delivery methodology, including ways of working
  • Be a partner to Procurement and Supplier Management, leading the supplier selection processes where products require significant third-party involvement and being accountable for establishing and managing the ongoing relationship with suppliers
  • Plan significant deployments across a number of products, ensuring relevant dependencies are identified and managed
  • Create and maintain roll-out schedules, track progress, always ensuring key stakeholders are kept up-to-date and risks & issues are appropriately managed
  • Spot and surface key risks and issues early, building an effective approach to mitigation, securing support of stakeholders as and when necessary
  • Coach others to help them understand the rationale for a technical approach, surfacing and dealing with ambiguity and conflicting demands
  • Conduct post implementation reviews to drive a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring that learning is fed through the wider Tech approach to delivery
  • Actively contribute to the Delivery Practice, supporting the creation and implementation of a career framework and community

  
  
  More about you:
  

  • You'll have demonstrable experience of delivering technical programmes in an and product environment, with significant third party or deployment complexities
  • An in-depth understanding of values, principles, practices and associated approaches as they relate to delivery management
  • Familiar with key techniques and frameworks for structuring programmes, including effective planning, dependency identification and management, risk and issue management
  • An in-depth understanding of Sainsburys Tech Operating Framework and Technology Principles, and awareness of external factor, including industry best practice
  • Able to participate in technical detail, where needed, showing an understand of the technical landscape and can describe technical choices and trade-offs to different stakeholders within and outside of Tech
  • Matrix leadership skills with the ability to apply these at scale
  • Highly commerciality always looking to deliver the best outcome for Sainsbury's

  
  
  As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you'll get:
  

  • Colleague discount across our multi-brands - Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat
  • Holiday allowance
  • Bonus scheme
  • Pension plan
  • Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

  
  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.

  Qualifications

  We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

  Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.

  Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private heathcare. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme.

  Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

  Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibiity criteria may apply).

  Responsibilities

  We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

• About the company

  Shop online at Sainsbury's for groceries, clothing, homewares, electricals, financial services and more. Together we’re helping everyone eat better.

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