About the 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. You will provide the cohesion between Programme and Engineering functions to deliver quality across the full lifecycle of the programme.
You will be responsible for

In this job, I am accountable for:

Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence and have these specific risk responsibilities:

• Deliver complex Infrastructure programmes with multiple business and technical risks that will impact the success of key Tesco business priorities

• Create and track a plan to deliver programme goals, including the technical implementation plan, ensuring colleagues and stakeholders from across Tesco are kept up-to-date

• Manage risks and Issues on the programme demonstrating tactics to resolve or mitigate

• Understand trade-offs in hardware and infrastructure delivery using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with the Engineering and Product teams to obtain the best value and deliver brilliant technical solutions

• Able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations

• Able to understand a technical architecture to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans

• Have good knowledge of engineering best practices and practical infrastructure implementations to appreciate delivery challenges

• Collaborate with the Product and Engineering teams to define annual budgetary requirements

• Communicate with stores and colleagues to arrange for the delivery of the programme striking the balance of delivery and store trading

• Build positive relationships with stakeholders to deliver software or professional services, holding them to account on delivery and improvement plans

• Contribute to the centre of excellence within the Workplace Technology Team ways of working, striving for excellence at every opportunity.

• Contribute actively to TPM community
  

You will need

Key people
and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco:

- Platform Operations

- Product Manager

- Programme teams

- Third party vendors (multiple)

- Store Support Teams

- Infrastructure Technology teams - Technology PMO

People, budgets and other resources I am accountable for in my job:

- Project level budgets (forecasting and control)

- Contribution to the Programme/Portfolio budgets

- 3rd party vendor (management of individuals and access)

Core Operational skills relevant for this
job:

- Programme/ITSM Methodologies

- Managing Risk

- Programme Governance

- Business Awareness

- Communicating and Influencing

- Data Analytics and insight

- Strategic thinking and problem solving

- Finance and Procurement

- Embracing and Enabling Change

- Curiosity and Learning

- Core Technology

- Product Methodologies

- Retail Technology Awareness

- Development Life-cycle

Experience relevant for this Job:

- Understand the key principles of ITSM and
how this drive effective change into BAU

- Have experience of building credible
relationships and influencing senior management

- Strong Project, Stakeholder &
Programme management skills

- Good reporting skills for programs and
financial forecasting

- Adept communication & influencing
skills and adoptability to changes - Expert delivery experience with the
following tools:

- Jira - Confluence - Miro - Microsoft
Project - MS Excel

Whats in it for you?

At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. 
 
As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. 
 
Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits.  
 
Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. 
 
Salary - Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. 
 
Leave & Time-off - Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy. 
 
Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary - In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. 
 
Health is Wealth - Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. 
 
Mental Wellbeing - We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents.  
 
Financial Wellbeing - Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request.  
 
Save As You Earn (SAYE) - Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan.  
 
Physical Wellbeing - Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. 

About Us

Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers. 
 
Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues 
 
Tesco Technology
 
Today, our Technology team consists of over 5,000 experts spread across the UK, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and India. In India, our Technology division includes teams dedicated to Engineering, Product, Programme, Service Desk and Operations, Systems Engineering, Security & Capability, Data Science, and other roles. 
 
At Tesco, our retail platform comprises a wide array of capabilities, value propositions, and products, essential for crafting exceptional retail experiences for our customers and colleagues across all channels and markets. This platform encompasses all aspects of our operations - from identifying and authenticating customers, managing products, pricing, promoting, enabling customers to discover products, facilitating payment, and ensuring delivery. By developing a comprehensive Retail Platform, we ensure that as customer touchpoints and devices evolve, we can consistently deliver seamless experiences. This adaptability allows us to respond flexibly without the need to overhaul our technology, thanks to the creation of capabilities we have built.