Lead Technical Programme Manager in Welwyn Garden City

About Supply Chain Ordering Transformation

Supply Chain Ordering is a critical capability within Tesco's end-to-end supply ecosystem, ensuring that every store and fulfilment location receives the right products at the right time to meet customer demand. As we transition away from legacy Mainframe-based Ordering applications, our focus is on building a modern, scalable, and intelligent Ordering platform that leverages real-time data, advanced forecasting, and AI-driven decisioning. This transformation will enable more accurate and automated ordering, reduce waste, improve availability, and create a seamless flow of information across Forecasting, Stock, Fulfilment, Transport, and In-Store Operations.

We are very proud of our legacy estate but we are driven to transform the technology to introduce new capabilities enabling AI across Tesco's global Supply Chain. The LTPM plays a pivotal role in driving this evolution - coordinating complex cross-functional delivery, integrating new technologies, and ensuring a smooth migration from legacy platforms to the new Ordering ecosystem.

You will be responsible for:

• Ordering Modernisation Programme
  • Define, lead, and deliver the multi-year roadmap to migrate Supply Chain Ordering applications away from Mainframe technologies into a modern cloud-based technology estate.
  • Own the end-to-end programme plan, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, architecture, and operational teams.
  • Coordinate dependency management across upstream and downstream systems, including Forecasting, Stock Management, Fulfilment and Connect services.
  • Drive robust governance, including release planning, risk and issue management, cost control, and progress reporting to senior leadership.
• AI Strategy & Delivery for End-to-End Supply Chain
  • Shape the AI strategy for Supply Chain, identifying high-value opportunities in forecasting, ordering optimisation, automation, anomaly detection, exception reduction, and operational efficiency.
  • Define and maintain the AI implementation roadmap, ensuring alignment with key stakeholder groups including AI & Data Science, Architecture, Engineering, and Business Operations teams.
  • Drive adoption of AI-powered features into product and operational workflows, ensuring measurable business outcomes.
• Cross-Functional Leadership
  • Collaborate closely with Commercial Product, Transport, Fulfilment, In-Store Operations Technology, Supply Chain Forecasting, Stock, Ordering & Connect teams to ensure cohesive technical and operational delivery.
  • Build strong senior-level relationships, influencing priorities and shaping strategic direction across multiple business and technology domains.
  • Provide leadership and coaching to TPMs within the wider programme, ensuring coherence of plans and alignment with outcomes.
• Technical & Delivery Excellence
  • Champion best-practice delivery frameworks, agile ways of working, and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure clear articulation of complex technical concepts to diverse audiences including senior leadership, engineering teams, product teams, and operational stakeholders.
  • Drive measurable improvements in programme velocity, reliability, quality, and delivery predictability.

You will need:

• A knowledge of Agile methodology and a record of producing positive change in teams.
• A proven track record of delivery of complex technology across multiple teams and influencing product, engineering and business colleagues.
• Working effectively with and leading multi-disciplinary teams and understanding how to contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Thinking at a conceptual level across a number of platforms.
• Ability to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.

Personal:

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership.
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.

What's in it for you?

We're all about the little helps. That's why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year's service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.

About Us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

We're a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.