Senior Delivery Manager​/Programme Manager

Sainsburys Tech - Delivery Manager – Data Ecosystem

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

As a highly experienced Delivery Manager in Sainsbury’s Tech you’ll collaborate with our Product, Engineering, and business teams to lead the delivery across multiple initiatives, contributing towards key strategic 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 Manager role will play a key part in our success to ensure delivery excellence.

• The role will be both hands‑on delivery & line management of 2+ Delivery Managers & oversight of those initiatives.
• Through partnering with multiple cross functional teams in Data & Tech and stakeholders across the business, own the delivery of new data products and complex changes in an agile environment.
• Tailor delivery approaches and methodologies, whilst setting up 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, anticipate, manage and communicate key risks, issues and dependencies, removing blockers for teams.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, Product and other Delivery Managers to align on cross squad dependencies, surfacing and dealing with conflicting demands, escalating where necessary.
• Utilise strong influencing skills to drive decision making with teams, stakeholders and with the Tech leadership.
• Report progress against key milestones regularly to all stakeholders and into Tech governance forums.
• 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.

• Extensive experience working as a Delivery/Programme Manager, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi-team initiatives within a technical landscape bridging the gap between business strategy & engineering execution including:
  • ETL/ELT & Data Pipeline knowledge
  • Data Modelling & Architecture
  • Data Quality & Governance
  • Data observability
  • Cloud data ecosystems
• Prior experience of managing a team of delivery professionals to create a high‑performing team.
• Proven experience in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall planning and successful delivery.
• Experience of working in a complex matrix organisation.
• Experience with managing compliance – Legal, regulatory, contractual, privacy, infosec, architecture.
• Highly proficient in status tracking and reporting, RAIDD, with experience of working with a company‑wide governance framework.
• Proven experience in managing key change delivery activities such as task planning, workforce planning, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management.
• 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.
• Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships across the business working in an authentic way.
• Experience working with and managing 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
• Strong communication skills to convey key messages, tailoring your approach as required to different audiences.
• Participate in technical detail, showing an understanding of the technical landscape whilst describing technical choices and trade‑offs to stakeholders and leadership.
• Understanding of project/change budgets and how to manage them.

• Extensive experience as a Programme/Delivery Manager ideally in a Commercial/Supply Chain/Retail Tech domain, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi‑team data products within a technical landscape and matrix organisation.
• Highly proficient in building delivery plans, status tracking &…