Senior Programme Manager

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.

Joining Sainsbury's as a Senior Programme Manager within our Property division 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

• Lead part of the programme management of complex capital investment across Sainsbury's Property division.
• Work closely with various stakeholders across Property and other business sponsors, balancing investment priorities, operational constraints, benefits realisation, and delivery risks.
• 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

• Proven track record in project and programme management within capital delivery environments, demonstrating strong stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to influence and challenge across functions, and to prioritise in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrable experience developing and managing capital investment programmes across complex portfolios.
• Proven ability to lead programme sequencing, prioritisation and delivery planning.
• Evidence of applying programme governance disciplines, including risk management, issue management, change control and programme reporting.
• Proven ability to influence and challenge stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Experience producing programme analysis, reporting and performance insights.

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.

Benefits include:

• Colleague discount of 10% on shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, with increases to 15% at points during the year.
• Pensions scheme and life cover.
• Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary.
• Annual holiday allowance, with the option to buy up to an additional week's holiday.
• Private healthcare.
• Season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.