Delivery Lead – Digital Full Time NEW

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 to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Sainsburys Tech – Delivery Lead – Digital

We can consider a London, Coventry or Manchester base location for this role.

As a Delivery Lead in Sainsbury’s Tech, you’ll collaborate with our Product, Engineering, and business teams to support the delivery of our key outcomes and programmes to generate customer, colleague, and business value. With a significant uplift in tech investment in the coming years, we have lots of transformational initiatives to deliver in Sainsbury’s Tech and the Delivery Lead role will play a key part in our success to ensure delivery excellence.

This role is at entry level within our Delivery practice and will work alongside our more experienced Delivery Managers and Heads of Delivery Management to support teams with project delivery to scope, budget and timelines.

More about the role:

• Through partnering with cross functional teams in Tech and stakeholders across the business, own the delivery of new products and changes in an agile environment. Work with Delivery Managers to assist in managing the successful delivery of complex multi-team programmes.
• Operate within multiple delivery approaches and methodologies, whilst maintaining governance frameworks that are appropriate for the outcomes being delivered. Build and maintain underpinned plans, including deployments and rollout schedules.
• Manage stakeholders and define RACIs to ensure proper ownership of artefacts, decisions, and deliverables.
• Identify, manage and communicate key risks, issues and dependencies, removing blockers for teams. Work collaboratively with Engineering, Product and other Delivery team members to align on cross team dependencies, surfacing and dealing with conflicting demands, escalating where necessary.
• Utilise influencing skills to drive decision making with teams and stakeholders.
• Report progress against key milestones regularly to all stakeholders and into Delivery leadership.
• Conduct post implementation reviews to drive a culture of continuous improvement and proven value delivery, ensuring that learnings are fed through the wider Tech approach to delivery.
• Actively contribute to the Delivery Community of Practice.

More about you:

• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to analyse and solve problems logically.
• Bold, curious, and resilient. Comfortable with driving decision making, challenging assumptions and taking risks.
• Effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships across the business, working in an authentic way.
• Strong communication skills to convey key messages, tailoring your approach as required to different audiences.
• A strong awareness and interest in technology and how it fits together to generate value for business and customers.
• Willing to learn technical language to discuss projects in terms of their outcomes, scope, possible trade-offs, issues and risks.
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation.

Desirable experience:

• Knowledge and understanding of a retail business and its technology landscape.
• Project status tracking and reporting, RAIDD, or experience of working with a company-wide governance framework.
• Key change delivery activities such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management.
• Experience working with and managing 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
• Understanding of project/change budgets and how to manage them.

Essential Criteria:

• Strong communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management experience
• Strong organisational skills.
• An understanding of delivery and key tools and techniques.

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 get 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. 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 additional holiday. 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, pay 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

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 eligibility criteria may apply).