Technical Programme Manager

Location: Bengaluru

About the role
About Forecasting & Ordering

Forecasting and Ordering is the Programme Function supporting Supply Chain. We're passionate about giving our customers what they want, when they want it. Our aim is to get thousands of products from factories and farms around the world to the shelf edge (virtual and physical) so that we can satisfy millions of customers every week – simply put: right product, right place, right time.

We recognise that the constantly changing demands of our customers' lives mean that as a business, we need to continue to innovate our offering so that they can shop with us in the way they want, when they want to. Delivering this challenge means that we are frequently re-inventing our Supply Chain to make sure it is always leading-class. Supply Chain initiatives seek to improve availability, reduce costs and optimise stock holding.

Our job is to make sure that every one of our 75 million weekly global customers can get what they want – when, where and however they want it

Within Technology we cover a breadth of systems from Retail Demand Forecasting, Order Optimise rs, Continuous Replenishment, Group Ordering, Stock Services & enabled with our front-end Tesco Connect. The Supply Chain systems include a wide breadth of technology from Mainframe to Hadoop coding in multiple languages but the most common being Java. The Supply Chain systems continue to be enhanced but also undertake step change improvements.
An effective supply chain provides competitive advantage for all retailers, through predicting customer demand accurately, ensuring that all customers get the products they need (instore & online), optimising ordering keeping supplier and Warehouse constraints in mind and thereby directly influence product availability, capturing an accurate view of Stock across Tesco and providing the best-in-class application for supply chain users.

In addition, all this needs to be done whilst keeping waste to a minimum and optimal stock holding, in turn keep our operational costs under control and helps the bottom line. Work is fun since we are building better capabilities on newer platforms be it transforming our forecasting intelligence to better algorithms on big data platforms, developing Optimisation algorithms, Enterprise level APIs

As a TPM for Ordering & Forecasting, you will play a pivotal role working with the Product Managers , business stakeholders, Engineering teams, and other Programme family member to define and deliver the change to enable the transformation.
You would be responsible for managing a part of the Tech programme. This could include:
• Managing a part of the Supply Chain budget
• Stakeholder communication of progress

• Dependency management with engineering teams who currently support the Supply Chain systems

• Supporting & managing our technology vendor partners
• Business case and funding approval for the Supply Chain programm
About Tesco
Our core purpose at Tesco is Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. Everything we do begins and ends with our customers. By understanding our customers, we can anticipate and respond to their needs and expectations. The role we play in the thousands of communities we serve is vital – whether it's creating good jobs, supporting local suppliers and producers, or helping local causes through our community programmes.

Our commitment to sustainability is core to our business. It drives our work across our own operations and our supply chain to reduce our environmental impact and support a healthier way of living.
We use tech to make things a little better for everyone, every day. We love coming up with our own ideas and building things ourselves. We empower our technologists to play a part in Tesco's future. Solving crunchy tech problems, making customers' lives a little easier, and making a difference to our communities and the planet.
Our Technology team is made up of over 3,500 experts spread over 5 countries: UK, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and India. These teams all have one thing in common – helping solve problems at a global scale.
Whether making products, software or systems, our teams…