Delivery Manager – Modern Workplace 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. As part of this role you’ll be required to travel to other Sainsbury’s locations as and when needed for workshops, collaboration sessions and team events. This would be around twice a month. 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 environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges. Your Mission at Sainsbury’s Tech As a Delivery Manager, you will lead and support the delivery of transformational work across Teams and across Sainsburys Tech at large, corralling the work of developer teams and partners for a timely and effective delivery of value. This team focuses on the Modern Workplace parts of our business dealing with the technology that powers our colleagues in stores, depots and store support centres on a day to day basis. What we look for in a Delivery Manager As Delivery Manager, you'll be a leading force within your 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 teams activities and engage some of our most trusted partners 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 partners, colleagues within your domain and across the organisation. More about the role: You'll work closely with Heads of Engineering and Engineering Managers, co-ordinating delivery across a number of engineering teams in order to realise key business outcomes You'll partner with engineering teams, key stakeholders and 3rd parties to deliver new products or complex changes, utilising appropriate delivery methodology, including ways of working 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: Experience of various project delivery methodologies Experience working with 3rd party technology partners/vendors. Experience of delivery within the Modern Workplace domain. Confident communicating with cross functional teams, organisation, and time zones. Understanding of project budgets and how to manage them. Experience tracking projects and team progress. Strong people skills, able to build relationships and get people on board. Able to participate in technical detail, where needed, showing an understanding of the technical landscape and can describe technical choices and trade-offs to different stakeholders within and outside of Tech