Category Alignment Project Management Lead

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, partnering with the world’s most ambitious retailers and brands to put the customer at the heart of every decision. We combine deep insight, advanced technology, and close collaboration to help our clients grow, innovate, and deliver measurable value for their customers.

dunnhumby employs nearly 2,500 experts in offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas working for transformative, iconic brands such as Tesco, Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Unilever and Metro.

Tesco Media is the ultimate media partner to brands. Built on unrivalled customer insight, it’s a media owner with soul, scale, and storytelling power. Tesco Media helps brands and agencies connect meaningfully with customers, drive creative effectiveness, and grow at the point of purchase.

Through Tesco, the UK’s largest grocery retailer with over 24 million Clubcard households - representing nearly every home in the UK - Tesco Media offers brands an unparalleled view into the motivations and behaviours of the nation. It is perfectly positioned to solve business’s greatest marketing challenges, unlocking growth by enabling brands to connect with customers in meaningful ways online, in-store and via its offsite partners, all while enhancing the shopping experience for its customers.

We're looking for a talented Category Alignment Project Management Lead who expects more from their career. Sitting within the Go To Market Team, you'll help drive strategic projects across Tesco Media, ensuring alignment between Commercial, Category, Sales, Product, Client Services and other key stakeholders. This is a highly collaborative role focused on delivering change, supporting business priorities, and helping bring new media opportunities and initiatives to market.

What you'll be working on:

• Supporting project planning and delivery across media and commercial initiatives, ensuring timelines, milestones and objectives are achieved.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to drive alignment, collaboration and successful project outcomes.
• Turning insights into action by using customer, category and campaign data to identify opportunities and support business growth.
• Managing stakeholder communications, facilitating discussions, tracking actions and ensuring clear updates across projects.
• Supporting media and commercial programmes across the Tesco Media portfolio to help deliver value for clients and customers.
• Maintaining project governance, including plans, trackers, documentation and status reporting.
• Driving continuous improvement by identifying ways to simplify processes and improve delivery effectiveness.
• Building category and retail media expertise, developing a strong understanding of the Tesco Media ecosystem and wider media landscape.

What we expect from you:

• Experience in project management, programme coordination, commercial operations or a similar business-focused role.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Experience working across cross-functional teams to deliver projects and business initiatives.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to use data and insights to support recommendations and decision-making.
• Proactive, adaptable and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Passion for media, marketing, retail media or commercial strategy, with a desire to drive positive change and business growth.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Tesco Media at a pivotal stage of growth, supporting high-profile initiatives and helping shape how brands connect with millions of Tesco customers.

What you can expect from us:

• We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off.
• You’ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble, small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play, experiment and learn.
• And we don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion. We live it every day – with thriving networks including dh Gender Equality Network, dh Proud, dh Family, dh One, dh Enabled and dh Thrive as the living proof. We want everyone to have the opportunity to shine and perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. Please let us know how we can make this process work best for you.

Our approach to Flexible Working:

At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work/life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.

Global Diversity and Inclusion Questions:

At dunnhumby, we utilise our diversity of thought as our competitive edge. We are proud of our diversity and committed to making dunnhumby an even more inclusive place to work that we can be proud of. Our diversity and inclusion work is designed to cultivate a culture of belonging, where every dunnhumbian feels safe to bring the whole self to work, where everyone is welcome and we practice what we preach. We have a full D&I strategy to implement this long-term behaviour change; in addition, we have five employee-led network groups to support colleagues in the areas of gender, sexual orientation, multiculturalism, mental health and wellbeing, and family.