Product Manager - Enabling Functions, Property

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

As a Product team within Tesco, we are accountable for helping set the technology direction across our Enabling Functions (Finance, Property, Legal, Compliance) applications. We cover everything from core ERP applications, to APIs, through to specialised products running outstanding Tesco processes.

As a team Product work closely with our business partners, engineering, programme and architecture communities to make sure that the directions we propose for our products are strategic and aligned with business priorities. Alongside being aligned with our business plan and enterprise strategy, we also need to integrate and support the objectives of our technology strategy and vendor roadmaps.

The Product Manager within our Property team will help shape, build and deliver the vision for technology products and applications across our property ecosystem, delivering products across every country Tesco operates in and ensuring the technology products and applications fully support the business requirements of the Property teams.

The Product Manager will be working closely with our wider Technology and Property teams, whose remit spans the full property asset lifecycle, from feasibility, acquisition and planning, construction and redevelopment through to operating, maintaining, energy management and decommissioning of Tesco’s extensive property estate.

If you’re a Product Manager who is passionate about building critical capabilities within an exciting organisation, and able to build positive relationships with partners, can work in a fast paced environment and wants to make a real difference then we'd love to hear from you!

You will be responsible for

• Have accountability for features within a sophisticated product domain, and help drive product vision, roadmap and execution
• Have accountability for the performance of the product and achieving the Outcomes and Key Results (goals and achievements), constantly measuring, and communicating value to partners.
• Relentlessly seek to understand the requirements and struggles of my customers and business partners
• Effectively detail and explain new requirements using user stories and acceptance criteria and help the engineering teams in breaking down a complex piece of work into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster.
• Prioritise roadmaps with multiple optimisation criteria and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders
• Proactively partner with peers and senior collaborators to help set the strategic direction of my product as part of the wider business strategy
• Work closely with external suppliers systems, understand the licence and contract arrangements, how to influence their roadmaps and the different means of partnering with external parties to ensure effective delivery to the business.

You will need

• Understanding the concepts of user stories, personas, acceptance test criteria
• Understanding Agile methodologies
• Understanding tech debt and non-functional requirements like performance, security
• Translating customer requirements into technical terms
• Explaining technical capabilities and limitations to business stakeholders
• Breaking down complex problems into small, deliverable chunks of work
• Building, maintaining and prioritising a product backlog using tools such as Jira
• Detailing and explaining new requirements to engineers using tools such as Confluence and Git Wiki
• Experience working with Property / Maintenance departments and the associated tools, systems and processes (eg. EAM, ERP, energy management, monitoring and analysis)
• Understanding and exposure to asset intensive environments with large, distributed asset estates.
• Experience implementing mobile applications to business teams.
• Understanding a typical Software Development Lifecycle
• Prioritising across a product portfolio serving different needs, objectives and timeframes
• Taken new products / ideas from conception to release, through standard software product development lifecycle and got measurable success across defined outcomes
• Worked with software vendors implementing large complex systems ensuring business requirements are met!

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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.