Project Management Office (PMO) Co-ordinator

Project Management Office (PMO) Co-ordinator

If you have a desire to be at the heart of change in a high profile and demanding change programme, there can be no better place to be right now than Sainsbury’s!

We are undergoing a multi-year Supply Chain transformation programme, aiming to achieve a market leading supply chain function across our Sainsbury’s and Argos brands, improved operational efficiencies, a best-in-class experience for our colleagues and suppliers, and deliver an outstanding service for our customers.

We are always looking for the brightest talent to bring fresh energy, experience, and inspiration to our vibrant, collaborative environment. It’s why we really encourage our teams to be themselves. To bring bold new ideas, to try things out, and go above and beyond.

As Project Management Office (PMO) Co Ordinator, you will work within the Supply Chain Transformation Team and work closely with our Portfolio Manager as well as Change, Operations and Tech teams, to co-ordinate all programme administration activity across our end-to-end programme from Strategy through to Implementation in order to ensure we have a clear programme plan with well understood risks and opportunities helping to form trade-offs or choices as we go.

You will assist with upholding the program plan, completing risk, opportunity, and interdependency reviews, maintaining the compilation of reports and programme governance documents, connecting interconnected project issues and opportunities as you identify them and executing compliance audits with follow up, action and compilation of reports and programme governance documents to ensure that the impact across the programme and teams is understood.

Providing PMO practices to adopt procedures with the use of approved templates and processes, you will take a helicopter view of our processes, drops into the detail when needed, to make sure that any improvements deliver the planned benefit, whilst always build strong stakeholder relationships to be able to engage at all levels.

We are looking for someone who….

• Has understanding and previous experience working on project governance with a working knowledge of basic project management tools.
• Knowledge & understanding of the end-to-end Supply Chain & Logistics process, operating standards, policies & procedures - Desirable.
• Excellent written communication and presentation skills and ability to use Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint to a high degree of competence.
• A good understanding of risk management and its application to projects
• Aware of how business cases are brought together and how these are measured.
• Builds great stakeholder relationships.
• Has self-awareness and an understanding of your impact, so that all stakeholders know what we need to do and why it needs to be done.
• Is a self-starter, with the ability to engage and motivate Team & internal/external stakeholders.

Interested in applying and are excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience?? – we’d still love to hear from you!

If being part of a hugely influential team and working for a fantastic Supermarket with a 150 year history wasn’t enough, you’ll also receive a host of great benefits, a competitive salary and a huge range of learning and development opportunities: Click here for more detail on our benefits: https://sainsburys.jobs/working-for-us/benefits/

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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