Technical Program Manager - SAP Workstream Lead (Salford Quays)

Marks and Spencer plc (UK)
Salford, UK
2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Asana JIRA Software as a Service Data Migration RAID SAP ERP SAP (Applications) SAP Business Suiteing SAP Implementation Systems Integration Ios Frameworks

Job description

This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate., As a Technical Programme Manager, you’ll support sophisticated cross team initiatives and programs, ensuring work progresses efficiently through effective planning, coordination and removal of delivery impediments., As a programme manager you will be accountable for owning the end to end delivery of a defined workstream on M&S implementation of SAP. You will build and lead the plan ensuring successful delivery across design, build, test, deployment, and stabilisation. You help identify problems and delivery inefficiencies, support agile ways of working, and strengthen sequencing, dependency management and issue mechanisms within and across teams. You provide practical delivery support through supervising progress, coordinating ceremonies, leading programme budgets, supporting release activities and ensuring clarity of priorities. All the details What’s in it for you?

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing outstanding quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us., * Lead the end-to-end delivery of an SAP workstream or module, ensuring scope, plan, and work are aligned to programme objectives.

  • Translate function and technical requirements and solution design decisions for the assigned SAP module into clear, executable workstream plans.
  • Establish and maintain workstream governance, delivery cadence, status reporting, RAID management, and decision forums, ensuring the M&S Way of Delivery standards and practices are achieved
  • Drive team delivery efficiency by identifying problems and inefficiencies within teams, actively removing blockers to improve delivery flow.
  • Support effective agile ways of working, including planning, ceremonies, prioritisation and delivery difficulty., Supporting colleagues connected to the Armed Forces, aiding their transition to civilian life, and ensuring that they thrive in the workplace., Fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace culture, addressing stigma, providing guidance and raising awareness to empower and assist colleagues affected by cancer., * Family friendly policy
  • Family friendly policy Industry-leading maternity, paternity, adoption and neo-natal policies, providing support and flexibility for you and your family.

Requirements

Do you have experience in iOS development?, * Strong delivery coordination skills and project/ programme management experience

  • Demonstrable experience leading large-scale implementation delivery across business processes, multi-functional teams, and multiple project phases.
  • Solid grasp of SAAS product delivery lifecycles, process build, integrations, data migration, testing, and deployment activities. - SAP experience preferred
  • Good grasp of programme management tooling such as Jira, Monday.com
  • Ability to identify delivery struggles and inefficiencies and actively remove blockers.

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Employee discount
  • Company pension
  • Cycle to work scheme, Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…
  • After completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
  • Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
  • Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
  • A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
  • A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
  • Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
  • Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
  • Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
  • A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work., Earn a competitive salary.
  • Colleague discount
  • Colleague discount After completing your probation period, you’ll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household. Please note only contracts of more than 12 weeks are eligible for this benefit.

  • Time off
  • Time off Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days., * Pay

  • Colleague discount
  • Time off
  • Bonus
  • Life assurance
  • Workplace savings
  • My Choices
  • Cycle to work
  • Smart tech
  • Family friendly policy

About the company

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We’re redefining, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We’re redefining how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you’d benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process., We’re at our best when we’re close to customers, and for many of us at M&S, that means working in store every day.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected. It also means we can solve problems as soon as they arise, learn and grow as a team, build trust, and get closer to our colleagues.

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At M&S, we have Data Scientists, Analysts, and Technical Product Managers, who all share a genuine passion for harnessing data to improve people’s lives. And we’re in a unique position where we can actually help many different kinds of people, from our customers to our colleagues in store and in our support centre. Deepak (He / Him) | Data Scientist Read full story

Being in third-party brands, working on things M&S hasn’t done before… that plays to my sweet spot. I’ve worked in many organisations throughout my career, and it’s rare to see such cause and effect in your work. The way we’re structured means you’re encouraged to solve problems and you have the autonomy to make progress quickly. Halford (He / Him) | Head of Technical Program Management Read full story

I think all engineers just love solving puzzles and problems. At M&S, we’re constantly learning new things, whether it’s mastering Swift UI or understanding how customers interact with technology. But this is also a business that listens to engineers and values what we bring to the table. That’s different, believe me. Janak (He / Him) | Staff iOS Engineer Read full story

At M&S, we have Data Scientists, Analysts, and Technical Product Managers, who all share a genuine passion for harnessing data to improve people’s lives. And we’re in a unique position where we can actually help many different kinds of people, from our customers to our colleagues in store and in our support centre. Deepak (He / Him) | Data Scientist Read full story

Being in third-party brands, working on things M&S hasn’t done before… that plays to my sweet spot. I’ve worked in many organisations throughout my career, and it’s rare to see such cause and effect in your work. The way we’re structured means you’re encouraged to solve problems and you have the autonomy to make progress quickly. Halford (He / Him) | Head of Technical Program Management Read full story

I think all engineers just love solving puzzles and problems. At M&S, we’re constantly learning new things, whether it’s mastering Swift UI or understanding how customers interact with technology. But this is also a business that listens to engineers and values what we bring to the table. That’s different, believe me. Janak (He / Him) | Staff iOS Engineer Read full story

At M&S, we have Data Scientists, Analysts, and Technical Product Managers, who all share a genuine passion for harnessing data to improve people’s lives. And we’re in a unique position where we can actually help many different kinds of people, from our customers to our colleagues in store and in our support centre. Deepak (He / Him) | Data Scientist Read full story

Being in third-party brands, working on things M&S hasn’t done before… that plays to my sweet spot. I’ve worked in many organisations throughout my career, and it’s rare to see such cause and effect in your work. The way we’re structured means you’re encouraged to solve problems and you have the autonomy to make progress quickly. Halford (He / Him) | Head of Technical Program Management Read full story

I think all engineers just love solving puzzles and problems. At M&S, we’re constantly learning new things, whether it’s mastering Swift UI or understanding how customers interact with technology. But this is also a business that listens to engineers and values what we bring to the table. That’s different, believe me.

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