Contract jobs in United Kingdom

We’ll all like amazing work toีฬา, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then_ALT you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

We can consider a London, Coventry or Manchester base location for this role_warned.

• Through partnering with multiple cross functional teams in Tech and stakeholders across the business, own the delivery of new products and complex changes in an agile environment.
• Tailor delivery approaches and methodologies, whilst setting up governance frameworks that are appropriate for the outcomes being delivered.
• Build and maintain underpinned plans, allez including deployments and rollout schedules.
Manage stakeholders and define RACIs to ensure proper ownership of artefacts, decisions, and deliverables.
• Identify, anticipate, manage and communicate key risks, issues and dependencies, removing blockers for teams.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, Product and other Delivery Managers to align on cross team dependencies, surfacing and dealing with conflicting demands, escalating where necessary.
• Utilise strong influencing skills to drive decision making with teams, stakeholders and with the Tech leadership.
• Report progress against key milestones regularly to all stakeholders and into Tech governance forums.
• मौका do post implementation reviews to drive a culture of continuous improvement and proven value delivery, ensuring that learnings are fed through the wider Tech approach to delivery.
• Actively contribute to the Delivery Community of Practice.

• Extensive experience as a Project/Delivery Manager, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi-team initiatives within a technical landscape including:
  • Software Development incl. Web & Apps
  • Hardware and Devices
  • Application Development
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Networks/Connectivity
• Proven괴 experience in Agile and Waterfall planning and successful delivery.
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation.
• Experience with managing compliance – Legal, regulatory, contractual, privacy, infosec, architecture.
• Highly proficient in status tracking and reporting, RAIDD, with experience of working with a company-wide governance framework.
• Proven experience in managing key change delivery activities such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to analyse and solve problems logically.
• Bold, curious, and resilient. Comfortable with nitori, challenging assumptions and taking risks.
• ExperienceInner working with and managing 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
• Strong communication skills to convey key messages, tailoring your approach as required to different audiences.
• Participate in technical detail, showing_CONTACT, the technical landscape whilst describing technical choices and trade-offs to stakeholders and broadcasting leaders.
• Understanding of project/change budgets and how to manage them.

• Extensive experience as a Project/Delivery Manager, ideally in a Commercial Tech domain, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi-team initiatives within a technical landscape and matrix organisation.
• Experience delivering change within a regulated & compliant technical landscape & into business operations – partnering with Legal, regulatory, compliance, privacy, information security, architecture & service teams.
• Highly proficient in building delivery plans, status tracking & reporting, RAIDD within Atlassian’s Jira Software and Jira Product Discovery products.
• Proven experience in managing technical & business stakeholders to deliver key change activities across multiple teams concurrently, such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management and project / change budgets.
• Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships with 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
• Certifications – at least one of the below:
  • Project/Program management frameworks: PMBOK, APM, PRINCE2 or similar
  • Agile PM, SAFe Release Train Engineer / SAFe Agilist or similar

Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA

Contract type: Permanent

Business area: Sainsbury's Tech

Closing date: 21 January 2026

Requisition ID: 400045893

Starting off with colleague discount, you’ll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every payday. We also have a pensions scheme and life cover, as well as a performance‑related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on company performance.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You’ll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy additional holiday. Other benefits include season ticket loans, interest‑free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. An Employee Assistance Programme and private healthcare are also available.

We provide 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).