Senior Product Manager - Transport

About the role

About The Technology - Transport Team

The Transport team is responsible for planning, executing and tracking of all the transport of goods in Tesco. The Transport team designs and implements systems and services for allocating vehicles based on capacity management for distribution from depots into the stores as well from the stores into the customers door step.

With more than £2Billion GBP spent on transportation, it is an ideal opportunity for designing better fleet utilization software to unlock huge savings. The team is also implementing advanced algorithms for vehicle routing and tracking to minimize fuel expenses as well as to provide real time delivery tracking information to customers.

You will be responsible for

The Role – Senior Product Manager – Transport

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Have complete ownership of a set of complex and company strategic products within a portfolio and involving multiple internal/ external stakeholders and drive the Product strategy and execution for that product
• Formulate the vision, strategy and roadmap for the set of products I own in the portfolio (product mix, new products, retirement of old products), and work with others in aligning the strategic priorities, dependencies and roadmap across the product portfolio
• Quickly build market knowledge and assess new product opportunities (gathering ideas, research, carrying out analysis, refining and prioritising new requirements)
• Plan and co-ordinate significant product efforts that have dependencies on multiple product and delivery teams
• Steer sprint/release planning sessions by work with my delivery counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value with the least effort
• Identify and drive improvements to the way in which product performance and service levels are measured to ensure product quality, reliability and security
• Manage the supplier strategy for my product domain identifying third party suppliers and business partners, and managing existing relationships
• Lead discovery work around a minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/ feature, collaborating with delivery teams to prototype and validate a MVP
• Help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work/ epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster

You will need

Key Skills and Experience

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Articulating a complex product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.
• Experience and understanding of agile techniques to deliver world beating products
• Thinking at a conceptual level across a number of platforms (web, mobile, tablets, PC).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
• Experience managing work completed from external agencies to ensure the highest standards are met.
• The ability to influence without authority.
• Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions
• Product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical acumen
• Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested