Head of Strategy

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That's why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support. We have an exciting new role for a Head of Strategy! You\'ll work to define the overall strategy for Tesco Group and oversee it\'s delivery. This covers what the business delivers for all stakeholders as well as how the culture evolves over time. The work is split across three areas. Ensuring formation and execution of long running strategic priorities, solving specific strategic challenges and overseeing the process by which strategy is devised and delivered. You will be responsible for Our Strategy Managers lead some of the highest priority, most complex work in Tesco. As strategy experts they need to be able to create, mobilise and run virtual teams across all business functions to respond to challenges that are often new for everyone involved. This includes keeping focus on long term strategic outcomes whilst developing roadmaps for medium term deliverables and standing over near term plans. The role is therefore ideal for somebody looking to build a broader network or gain experience working across multiple functions. It is a great opportunity for somebody to show what they can do as a leader - bringing, challenge, clarity and structure where no precedent exists, whilst leading peers and more senior colleagues to deliver critical business priorities. You will -

• Contribute across all Group Strategy work through active participation in the leadership team and the planning cycle
• Provide subject matter support and development
• Define and scope the strategic priorities you lead, establishing clear direction by shaping the ambition, priorities and business cases
• Build cross functional programme teams to establish and embed ways of working
• Establish and facilitate the appropriate levels of governance to provide strategic oversight and direction for the programmes
• Run interdependencies and impacts across portfolios/programmes
• Drive progress in a consistent, transparent way, and to identify and handle issues and risks, dependencies, and opportunities.
  
  Significant experience developing and delivering Strategy in a large corporate environment
• A proven track record of delivering complex and sustained change at substantial scale
• Demonstrable experience of managing cross functional project teams including peers and senior leaders
• Experience of influencing senior stakeholders and facilitating challenging governance sessions
• The successful candidate will embrace uncertainty, relishing the opportunity to bring clarity where none exists Their energy and positive outlook will ensure that teams around them always find a way to get the right things done, in the right way They will have the Tesco Purpose and Values at heart, Disability Confident
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Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues. It's part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we're proud to have been accredited as one of Britain's Top Employers again this year. We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers. But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business. We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers


• Annual bonus scheme of up to 45% of base salary
• Car Cash Allowance
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 6% - 10% and Tesco will contribute 1.5 times this amount
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years' service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave