Sainsbury's
Senior Programme Manager
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Joining Sainsbury's as a Senior Programme Manager means being at the forefront of driving complex capital investment activity across our estate, translating strategic objectives into tangible deliverables that impact our customers, colleagues, and business. With a focus on programme management including sequencing, risk management, and stakeholder collaboration, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and optimising integrated programme plans that drive successful outcomes at scale. Working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, you will have the opportunity to influence and challenge across functions, while continuously improving programme management standards and making a significant impact within a supportive and collaborative team.
What you'll do
You’ll lead part of the programme management of complex capital investment across Sainsbury's. Working closely with various stakeholders across Property and other business sponsors, you will balance investment priorities, operational constraints, benefits realisation, and delivery risks to ensure that programmes are phased and sequenced effectively. You’ll build and maintain integrated programme plans, lead sequencing decisions, apply robust planning and control approaches, manage risks and issues, and provide high-quality reporting and analysis.
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Who you are
You have a proven track record in project and programme management within capital delivery environments, demonstrating strong stakeholder communication skills. With the ability to influence and challenge across functions, and to prioritise in a fast-paced environment, make you a valuable leader across a large and dynamic estate.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience developing and managing capital investment programmes across complex portfolios, translating strategic objectives into deliverable activities and managing dependencies across multiple workstreams.
- Proven ability to lead programme sequencing, prioritisation and delivery planning, balancing resource capacity, operational constraints, risks, benefits and business priorities.
- Evidence of applying programme governance disciplines, including risk management, issue management, change control and programme reporting to support effective decision-making.
- Proven ability to influence and challenge stakeholders across multiple functions, holding teams accountable for milestone delivery, dependencies and programme outcomes.
- Experience producing programme analysis, reporting and performance insights, using tools such as Excel, PowerPoint and reporting systems to communicate status, risks and recommendations.
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