Delivery Manager - Digital

Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD

Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 15 January 2026

Requisition :

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles.

We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

Sainsburys Tech - Delivery Manager - Digital – Permanent role

We can consider a London, Coventry or Manchester base location for this role.

As a Delivery Manager in Sainsbury’s Tech you’ll collaborate with our Product, Engineering, and business teams to lead the delivery of our key outcomes and programmes to generate customer, colleague, and business value. With a significant uplift in tech investment in the coming years, we have lots of transformational initiatives to deliver in Sainsbury’s Tech and the Delivery Manager role will play a key part in our success to ensure delivery excellence.

More about the role:

• Through partnering with multiple cross functional teams in Tech and stakeholders across the business, own the delivery of new products and complex changes in an agile environment.
• Tailor delivery approaches and methodologies, whilst setting up governance frameworks that are appropriate for the outcomes being delivered.
• Build and maintain underpinned plans, including deployments and rollout schedules.
• Manage stakeholders and define RACIs to ensure proper ownership of artefacts, decisions, and deliverables.
• Identify, anticipate, manage and communicate key risks, issues and dependencies, removing blockers for teams.
• Work collaboratively with Engineering, Product and other Delivery Managers to align on cross team dependencies, surfacing and dealing with conflicting demands, escalating where necessary.
• Utilise strong influencing skills to drive decision making with teams, stakeholders and with the Tech leadership.
• Report progress against key milestones regularly to all stakeholders and into Tech governance forums.
• Conduct post implementation reviews to drive a of continuous improvement and proven value delivery, ensuring that learnings are fed through the wider Tech approach to delivery.
• Line Management of a Delivery Lead.
• Actively contribute to the Delivery Community of Practice.

More about you:

• Extensive experience as a Project/Delivery Manager, supporting and managing the delivery of complex multi-team initiatives within a technical landscape including:
  • Software Development incl. Web & Apps
  • Hardware and Devices
  • Application Development
  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Networks/Connectivity
• Proven experience in Agile and Waterfall planning and successful delivery.
• Experience of working in a matrix organisation.
• Experience with managing compliance – Legal, regulatory, contractual, privacy, infosec, architecture.
• Highly proficient in status tracking and reporting, RAIDD, with experience of working with a company-wide governance framework.
• Proven experience in managing key change delivery activities such as task planning, workforce planning, system integration, quality management and testing, data migration, service transition, post implementation review, value delivery management.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to analyse and solve problems logically.
• Bold, curious, and resilient. Comfortable with driving decision making, challenging assumptions and taking risks.
• Highly effective at developing and maintaining strong working relationships across the business working in an authentic way.
• Experience working with and managing 3rd party technology partners/vendors.
• Strong communication skills to convey key messages, tailoring your approach as required to different audiences.
• Participate in technical detail, showing an…