This role is Hybrid and will require the successful candidate to work from the Coventry office 1-2 days every 2 weeks.

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

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. 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 a 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 work closely with engineer managers, 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
• 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.
• 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

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 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).

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.