Senior Product Manager – Distribution Colleague Applications

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 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
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• 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

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

Product managers at TESCO Technology are passionate about solving problems. They take accountability for complex products, and are empowered to drive the product strategy, roadmap and outcomes. Driven by curiosity and innovation, coupled with strong partnership with Business, Engineering, User Research and Data Science teams, our product managers create value for our Customers and Colleagues in all our markets.

TESCO’s fulfilment operations are powered by one of the largest distribution and fulfilment networks in the world. Store Fulfilment is the backbone of the business and at the forefront of serving our Customers. Our fulfilment network ensures our Customers get their shopping, when, where and how they want it. Our fulfilment operations are on a progressive journey to embrace automation and modernise our applications, with technology at the heart of our industry leading plans.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to be part of this journey, sharing our ambition to deliver for our Customers; with a proven track record, ideally in fulfilment, across both Front (e.g. Colleague & Management Applications) and the Backend which drives them (e.g. API, business logic & algorithms). If that sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you.

In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities. Joining us means playing a part in defining, building, and launching an ambitious roadmap of technology products in the Fulfilment Automation space.

The position will be based at our Technology Centre in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire

You will be responsible for

• Own all the products which our Distribution colleagues and managers interact with allowing them to make decisions and complete task through intuitive interfaces
• Evolve and drive the product vision, strategy and long-term roadmap and execute it well by constantly managing the stakeholder’s expectations and working through dependencies across multiple products/ teams.
• Accountable for the performance/ adoption of the product and work towards achieving the Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs)
• Understand key user personas for the product and their pain points.
• Understand and demonstrate the features of the product to different audiences within and outside of the immediate team
• Drives experiments against defined hypothesis which enables robust data-driven decisions on product improvements and influences product objectives
• Engage in product discovery to establish minimum viable product (MVP) for your products, collaborating with user experience (UX) and engineering teams to prototype and validate the solution.
• Understand how to utilise data science and machine learning to deliver outcomes at scale
• Provide leadership and direction to cross functional team(s)
• Drive the acceptance and adoption of ideas and improvements with product teams and engineering stakeholders
• Effectively outline and explain new product needs to the engineering team using user stories with personas and acceptance tests and help the team in breaking down complex work into smaller, deliverable chunks of value.
• Steer sprint/ release planning sessions by collaborating with engineering counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort
• This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with a curious mind who is motivated to challenge the status quo, make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first. 

You will need

• Product Management experience in a B2B and/or Fulfilment environment
• Experience in building Front End products (e.g. Colleague & Management Apps) and Back End products (e.g. APIs, business logic or algorithms).
• Experience defining workflow management tools to create operational efficiency in enterprise scale systems
• Proven track record of owning Problem Statements/Opportunities and achieving committed Outcomes
• Proven ability to solve business problems through discovery and hypothesis driven approach
• Proven ability to absorb and draw conclusions from multiple inputs and data points to refine and define the User Needs
• Experience in/and understanding of User Experience (UX) Research driven product development
• Worked collaboratively with data scientists to build integrated data products that add significant value
• Ability to work independently and drive the product’s lifecycle

Nice to have

• Preferred Industry segment: Retail, Apparels, Food/Grocery, Consumer Durables, Consumer Packaged Goods
• Preferred Function: Technology (Distribution & Fulfilment, 3^rd Party Logistics for Online, Ecommerce business)
• Experience in working in an international businesses

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About us

Our vision 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 our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.