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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 for a timely and effective delivery of value. This team focuses on the Supply Chain & Logistics part of our business dealing with the technology that powers our stores on a day to day basis this includes products like Fleet Management/Depot Planning and Deliveries.
What we look for in a Delivery Manager
As Delivery Manager in Efficiency & Optimisation group within JS Logistics, you'll be a leading force within your engineering team and across the wider business, driving forward and delivering changes and enhancements to our Logistics Transport & Applications 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 work closely with engineering managers, product managers, architects, and senior engineers co-ordinating delivery across several 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 as well as standard project / program management tools and techniques, 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:
Strong understanding and certified in Agile Methodology
Proven experience in software or/ and Agile project delivery.
Working knowledge of Project/Program management frameworks like PMBOK, APM or similar
Experience working with 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
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 partnerships 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
