Senior Technical Program Manager - Customer Domain

Senior Technical Program Manager - Customer Domain

Full-Time 66150 - 80850 £ / year (est.) Home office (partial)
Marks and Spencer

At a Glance

  • Tasks: Lead complex tech programmes to enhance customer experiences and drive business transformation.
  • Company: Join M&S, a dynamic and inclusive retail leader shaping the digital era.
  • Benefits: Enjoy 20% discount, competitive holidays, bonuses, and extensive wellbeing support.
  • Other info: Collaborative environment with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact in a role that blends strategy with hands-on delivery.
  • Qualifications: Experience in leading large-scale tech programmes and strong stakeholder management skills.

The predicted salary is between 66150 - 80850 £ per year.

As a Senior Technical Programme Manager, you'll provide strategic leadership to shape, plan, and deliver complex technical programmes that support key business priorities. With a focus on the Customer Domain, including Loyalty, Customer Platforms and Financial Services within Digital & Technology, you'll play a key role in delivering technology initiatives that power the M&S digital experience. You'll bring together engineering, product and delivery teams to create secure, scalable and future-ready solutions that improve outcomes for customers and colleagues.

What's in it for you? Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever-evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing outstanding quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us. Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:

  • After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
  • Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
  • Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
  • A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
  • A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
  • Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
  • Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
  • Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
  • A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do:

  • Lead complex, cross-functional programmes, delivering technology solutions that enhance customer experiences and support business transformation.
  • Shape delivery plans, roadmaps, objectives and investment priorities in partnership with Product and Engineering teams, ensuring clear outcomes and measurable progress.
  • Own technical delivery and release strategies, proactively managing risks, dependencies and escalations to achieve successful outcomes.
  • Drive quality, continuous improvement and effective delivery practices, improving consistency, reducing risk and enabling successful change across teams.
  • Partner with business stakeholders and third-party vendors, translating technical concepts into clear actions, managing performance and delivering value from technology investments.

Who you are:

  • Experienced in leading large-scale, multi-team technology and transformation programmes within complex environments.
  • Comfortable working with technical, product and business stakeholders, building trusted relationships and influencing at all levels, including senior leadership.
  • Skilled in service-focused delivery, using operational data and performance insights to support decision-making and continuous improvement.
  • Able to balance strategic thinking with a hands-on approach, ensuring solutions are effectively deployed, adopted and optimised.
  • You bring strong commercial awareness, problem-solving skills, resilience and a collaborative mindset, with a passion for delivering lasting improvements.

Everyone's welcome. M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That's why we're revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There's never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact. We're an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers thoughtfully. We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working. If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.

Senior Technical Program Manager - Customer Domain employer: Marks and Spencer

Marks and Spencer is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, particularly within the Corporate HR technology team. Employees benefit from a supportive environment that prioritises professional growth and development, alongside competitive remuneration and benefits. Working in a dynamic location, you will have the opportunity to lead impactful projects that enhance the colleague experience throughout their journey with the company.

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We think you need these skills to ace Senior Technical Program Manager - Customer Domain

Strategic Leadership
Programme Management
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Technical Delivery
Risk Management
Continuous Improvement
Stakeholder Management