Senior Programme Manager

hackajob is collaborating with Sainsbury's DTD to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work‑life balance. That’s waiting for you here at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not leading projects, we’re supporting teams across the wider group to achieve their goals. And here, you can see the impact of your work as soon as you walk into a store, giving you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The scale and complexity of our business mean there’s always something new to learn, and we’ll support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen.

Why join us

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.

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, you 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.

Benefits

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whatever 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. Here are some of them:

• Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and in‑store at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year.
• 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare.
• 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, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well as 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.
• 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.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).