Delivery Manager - Data

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.

More about the role:

• 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.

More about you:

• 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.

Essential Criteria:

• 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 & reporting, RAIDD within Atlassian's Jira Software and Jira Product Discovery products.
• Experience delivering change within a regulated & compliant technical landscape & into business operations – partnering with Legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, information security, architecture & service teams.
• Proven experience in managing technical & business stakeholders to deliver key change activities across multiple teams concurrently, such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management and project / change budgets.
• Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships with 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
• Certifications - at least one of the below:
• Project/Program management frameworks: PMBOK, APM, PRINCE2 or similar
• Agile PM, SAFe Release Train Engineer / SAFe Agilist or similar

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 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.

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.

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.