Project Delivery Manager

Job description

Why join us

By joining Sainsbury's as a Supply Chain Transformation Delivery Manager, you become an integral part of our transformation journey, helping shaping the future of our supply chain operations, driving innovation and enhancing operational efficiencies that will have a significant impact on our business success. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead cross-functional projects, contribute to strategic developments, and engage with a diverse set of stakeholders, allowing you to showcase your project management skills and strategic acumen while making a tangible difference in one of the core foundations of our organisation. The collaborative and forward-thinking environment at Sainsbury's provides the space for you to drive change, solve complex challenges, and influence key decision-making processes, all while working towards a common goal of continuous improvement and transformation.

This is a 12 month fixed term contract role and can be based from either our Holborn, Coventry or Manchester support offices
 

What you'll do

Here you will play a pivotal role in defining and shaping the future of our supply chain operations, developing market-leading capabilities, processes, and operating models to enhance our competitive edge and drive transformation across our business. You will work cross-functionally to drive strategic development by creating and revising medium and long-term strategies encompassing E2E product flows, process improvement, technology, and people considerations. Utilising strong project management skills and cross-functional stakeholder engagement, you will drive clarity and simplicity, effectively navigating ambiguity to frame business challenges and facilitate outcome-centric and hypothesis-led approaches, fostering innovation, and inspiring change through storytelling and robust business case development.

Who you are

You are a strategic thinker with a proven track record in driving end-to-end transformation projects at scale with demonstrable experience working within supply chain and logistics. With your expertise in shaping change initiatives and developing long-term strategies, you possess strong project management skills and the ability to lead cross-functional teams in achieving strategic business outcomes. Your capacity to navigate ambiguity, break down complex problems into actionable solutions, and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels to drive clarity, simplicity, and innovation in transforming the supply chain operations to achieve long-term benefits and competitive advantage for the business.

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. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore 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 heathcare. 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 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 eligibiity criteria may apply).