Product Manager – Basket

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

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About the role

Who we are:

Product managers at Tesco Technology are passionate about solving problems. They take accountability for complex and strategic products, and are empowered to drive the product strategy, product roadmap and the 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 globally.

About the role:

The basket product team vision is to create an effortless, efficient, and personalised gateway for all Tesco customers between their basket building and checkout experience. The product is served via our web, mobile web, android and iOS channels. Basket is a key dependency for multiple propositions for the Tesco Online business including grocery home shopping, Whoosh and our upcoming online marketplace proposition.

You will be responsible for

• The product manager will proactively partner with their cross functional colleagues to set the long-term direction of their product in line with the wider organisational, product strategy and user needs.
• Will be a champion for a user centric and data lead approach to manage their discovery, backlog and roadmap to set both short term and long-term priorities.
• Will proactively position themselves as an expert in the key customer segments, personas and stakeholders for their product and business.
• Will navigate ambiguity by leaning on strong product principles and organisational values to decisively prioritise work to resolves trade-offs with their peers and senior leaders.
• Effectively documents and breaks down complex product requirements and acceptance criteria to enable their product development teams via stories and epics.
• Steers sprint planning and relevant agile ceremonies with their engineering and UX design counterparts to deliver value with optimal risk and effort.
• Will drive the adoption of ideas and new product concepts with their key cross functional stakeholders.
• Will independently co-ordinate live issues for their product.
• Provides leadership and direction to their cross-functional team on short term and long-term priorities.

You will need

You’ll need the following experience and skills:

• Proven experience of having worked on a product that led to the delivery of value to users. (B2C and/or developing products for web or native app channels is desirable. Applicants from related disciplines such as engineering, design and analytics are welcome to apply)
• Demonstrable understanding of modern product discovery practices in collaboration with colleagues from UX, engineering and other disciplines.
• Proven experience of constructively handling conflicting priorities to focus stakeholders, engineers, designers and leaders.
• Demonstrable familiarity with various techniques to understand their user via research techniques and interviews.
• A proven understanding of using quantitative and qualitative data from setting a strategy all the way to executing and managing stakeholders.
• Knowledge in the use of tools and techniques for prioritisation and managing dependancies.
• Be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique or valuable to our product teams.

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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.