Lead Product Manager - Supplier & Partner Services

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:
• Annual bonus scheme where you can earn up to 3.5% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays)
• On-site state of the art gym at our Welwyn Campus with discounted “Gympass” membership & free health checks via Nuffield Health
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• Share Schemes – Join our ‘Buy As You Earn’ & ‘Save As You Earn’ share schemes after 3 months service
• Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a household member) after 3 months service
• Colleague Discounts:
• 10% increasing to 15% after every pay day for a four day period, off most purchases at Tesco
• 10% off One Stop
• 10% off pay monthly & SIM only deals with Tesco Mobile
• 20% off all F&F purchases
• 20% off car, pet and home insurance at Tesco bank. T&C’s apply
• 25% off Tesco Café
• 50% off complete glasses purchases & free eye tests (other offers available) at Vision Express
• 50% off health checks at Tesco Pharmacy
• An exclusive deals and discounts website saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Cycle to work scheme
• Shuttle Bus Service to/from Hatfield & Welwyn Garden City Station to Welwyn Campus & Hatfield Offices
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
• Our Employee Assistance Programme helps you deal with life’s challenges
• Financial wellness - Tesco has partnered with experts to help you make the most of your money
• Get involved in a range of fundraising activities with our long-term charity partners

About the role

We have an outstanding opportunity for an experienced Lead Product Manager to join Tesco’s Supplier & Partner Services Product Team, part of the wider Technology Change Team. Where our mission is to transform how Tesco manages all aspects of its supplier lifecycle, through supplier and colleague facing tools and services.

As a Lead Product Manager, you will be responsible for working with your team to define and complete the vision and strategy for your portfolio. With a focus on how supplier and partner related data is collated, led, and shared across the group to build positive relationships, and in support of Tesco core purpose and values.

We are looking for a high-reaching individual who can demonstrate a passion for solving problems, working collaboratively, and adopting technology and change, whilst mentoring and supporting your Agile product management team.

You will be responsible for

• Have accountability for a sophisticated product domain, and drive product strategy, roadmap, and execution for that by leading a team of hardworking PMs.
• Accountable for identifying the key measures of success (OKRs) and the resulting performance / adoption of my product(s)
• Relentlessly seek to understand the needs and pains of your customers and business stakeholders.
• Prioritise roadmaps and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders.
• Build and nurture a great team of Product Managers, empowering them to perform beyond their own expectations, by removing barriers and crafting the right context for their success.
• Work alongside research, design, analytics, and engineering teams to design and develop solutions to solve real business needs.
• Relentlessly measure and communicate value built to all stakeholders, all the time.
• Work as part of a wider product team, with a culture for shared goals, helping where appropriate as the need arises.
• Actively participate in recruiting, for your team and others across the organisation, to develop those around you and to raise the calibre of product signal throughout the organisation.

You will need

• Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical experience
• Technically proficient to influence and understand the solution context and approach (legacy, tactical, strategic) and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested
• The ability to build strong working relationships with peers, stakeholders, and teams across the business. Able to demonstrate these relationships to build consensus, motivate change, and deliver value
• Experience of working in a complex change environment which encompasses multiple product and engineering teams, both local and remote, to deliver enterprise-wide applications and features
• Carrying out product management of APIs, or complex data structures, and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related services.

About us

Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving Britain's shoppers a little better every day’. Our business was built with a simple mission – to be the champion for customers, helping them to enjoy a better quality of life and an easier way of living. This hasn't changed. Customers want great products at great value which they can buy easily and it's our job to deliver this in the right way for them. In the UK, we serve some 66 shoppers every second, so it's our goal to ensure every one of those customers experiences just a little better service on each visit.

At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone’s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.

Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues – who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.