Project Delivery Support (9M FTC)
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Retail
Closing date: 20 June 2025
Requisition ID: 306295
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. As the link between sellers and buyers, retail and head office, our retail operations team is the cog that keeps things running. With teams focused on store facing, labour, transformation, online, delivery and contact centre work, we touch almost every part of the business. It’s an incredibly fast-paced environment where you need to pivot not just daily, but often hourly. So while we plan all we can, it’s vital that we all think outside our job descriptions and look to optimise and improve how we do everything. There’s also a real team ethos. After all, it’s people like you who are going to truly transform this part of the business.
Division/Department: Argos Central Retail & Change / Argos Transformation
Location: Any SSC & Home – travel required for ad hoc project meetings/workshops & quarterly team meetings.
Reporting to: Transformation Manager
In a nutshell:
As a Project Delivery Support, you will provide comprehensive support in the management and delivery of change projects across Sainsbury’s Argo, a flexible approach is required and adapted to meet individual project needs.
You will support with the execution of day-to-day change project activities to ensure the new business capability is delivered on time and within budget, and that target benefits meet or exceed expectations. Working and supporting process activities across transformation, including third parties and contractors, ensuring best practices are followed and the impact of changes is paramount.
What I am accountable for:
- Work within the framework of best-in-class Project management and Agile methodology to ensure project delivery meets the agreed success criteria and aligns to the programme objectives.
- Support the scope, design and implementation of approved change projects within your business area.
- Identify opportunities to enhance and simplify current and new processes.
- Have a flexible approach to business and external requirements to support change project delivery.
- Development of strong business partnerships with other internal departments and external strategic partners.
- A self-starter, with the ability to engage and motivate your Team and internal/external stakeholders.
- Accountability for the completion of project reports and project governance documents which will be distributed to programme teams to ensure alignment across the project.
- Supports the delivery of project and KPI benefits realisation of projects.
- Supports enhancements following the transfer from project into business as usual.
- Coach stakeholders to ensure project outputs are introduced and embedded within the business to create a sustainable capability. Identify opportunities to coach and share knowledge across the whole team to support succession plans and limit single points of failure.
- The ability to influence at all levels and be credible in engaging stakeholders in project scope and deliverables.
What I need to know & show:
- Previous project management experience including the ability manage a project End To End (essential)
- Change management skills (essential)
- Good understanding of risk management and its application to projects (essential)
- Flexibility to meet business requirements (essential)
- Experience and knowledge of working within a retail, fulfilment or logistics function (desired)
- Ability to make informed decisions at the appropriate level for the team or project, taking full responsibility for decisions with support from their project/programme owner.
- Work with the relevant teams to ensure that everyone's needs are known and ensure customer outcomes are at the forefront of decision making.
- Take time to really understand processes, engage with colleagues to check understanding and then work to implement changes to make things simpler.
- Communicate with colleagues in an engaging and inspiring way.
- Self-awareness and an understanding of your impact so that all stakeholders know what they need to do and why.
- Take every opportunity to engage with our customers, build their trust in what we are doing and what we plan to do in the future.
- Inspires those around them to be the best they can be - taking the time to get to know, encourage and support them
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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 10% 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. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, 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 eligibility criteria may apply).
