Senior Project Manager

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's as a Senior Project Manager in the Construction and Delivery Team means being part of a dynamic and fast-paced environment where you can make a significant impact on our physical investment projects. We are dedicated to delivering customer-focused projects that adhere to the highest standards of safety, quality, and compliance. With the opportunity to manage complex projects, work with cross-functional teams, and influence key stakeholders, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our estate. We offer access to personal development programmes, ongoing training, and the chance to enhance your skills and knowledge in project management. If you are motivated by challenge, thrive in a collaborative setting, and have a passion for delivering successful outcomes, we invite you to join our team and contribute to our ongoing success.

What you'll do

As a Senior Project Manager at Sainsbury's, you will be part of the Construction and Delivery Team responsible for overseeing and delivering multi-million-pound physical change projects across our estate, ranging from store improvements to the construction of new supermarkets and local fulfilment centres. In this role, you will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of property-related change projects, ensuring adherence to time, cost, quality, and safety parameters while complying with legal and statutory requirements. You will be responsible for managing various aspects of the project, including health and safety, minimising disruption to customers, resolving issues that may arise, producing high-quality project plans, and providing technical expertise in collaboration with consultants and internal stakeholders. Additionally, you will manage and control capital and revenue expenditure, prepare project documentation, communicate effectively with internal and external parties, and mitigate risks throughout the investment process. Your role will involve indirect leadership of external contractors and suppliers, stakeholder management, and staying abreast of industry trends and developments. Through your experience and strong project management skills, you will drive successful project outcomes while leading cross-functional teams and making strategic decisions within the framework of governance.

Who you are

As a Senior Project Manager, you are highly experienced in complex project management with a strong commercial focus. With a logical and systematic approach, you consistently deliver well-structured and thoughtful projects that meet time, cost, quality, and safety parameters. Your expertise in managing multiple outsourced service providers and leading cross-functional project teams allows you to influence and hold them accountable for their performance. You possess excellent stakeholder management skills, building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level. With your strong commercial acumen and budget management skills, you rigorously challenge costs and ensure capital control throughout the investment process. Your resilience, adaptability, and ability to positively motivate and engage colleagues during times of change make you a valuable asset in a dynamic and fast-pa

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not handling projects, we’re helping all corners of the wider group with what they’re trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there’s always something else around the corner, and we’ll help and support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here. 

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 shar