Lead Product Development Manager - Process - 6 Month Parental Leave Cover
| Posting date: | 26 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2024 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/14036628/892430 |
Summary
About the role
You will be responsible to lead the Process & Project Management team, ensuring we have the right processes, systems & timeframes in place to facilitate the on time planning, reporting and delivery of our product development projects & capacity planning.
You will be responsible for
- Establish the function\'s, documentation, systems & WOW. Focusing on simplification & efficiency.
- Review and redefine the annual project & capacity planning process considering key inputs needed, PGRs & timings.
- Reset forecasting and governance WOW to drive maximum value.
- Set up & manage an overview of all projects & critical paths to ensure a live & accurate view of activity for capacity.
- Review system requirements eg MPD & future builds planned to ensure they meet the needs of our team.
- Lead review of the milestone process to simplify and ensure more efficient delivery of OB products to market.
- Support recruitment & set up of new project manager roles.
- Manage team of 2 alongside day to day project management of a small category area
- Ensure a 18-24m rolling view of the product plan to facilitate delivery of key moment projects & capacity planning.
- Support PDLT with facilitation of key meetings, planning & paperwork incl. agenda, actions, next steps (FLT & PPLT)
- Focus on lessons learnt & continuous improvement to ensure we are working in the simplest, most efficient ways.
- Ensure Product Plan documentation is kept up to date.
- Oversee continual evolution of MPD ensuring it meets PD needs & data management is improved.
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You will need
- Experience of driving change (ideally processes & systems) and embedding more effective & efficient ways of working
- Proven track record of successful project management in a fast-paced environment (ideally food industry)
- Understanding of stage & gate process or similar methodology
Operational Skills
- Managing, leading and embedding change
- Flexing between strategic thinking & implementation
- Excellent project management skills
- Highly organised, efficient & able to prioritise
- Strong communication skills
- Managing ambiguity, analysing info & finding the best way forward
- Excellent snr stakeholder mgmt & influencing skills
- Positive and proactive, solutions focused attitude
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
- Private medical insurance
- Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
- A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
- Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
- Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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