Optimisation Manager (Retail Media)

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

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Optimisation Manager to play a pivotal role in turbocharging the impact of our multi-channel trading and media plans!

You will contribute to the rapid scale-up of the Tesco Retail Media business and shape how the UK’s largest retailer collaborates with its suppliers on aligned digital trading and supply to Tesco customer the best possible media content attending not only to the suppliers demand but also customer satisfaction, leverage data and insights to deliver innovative, best-in-class retail media activations across the Tesco Media & Insights platform. 

You will be responsible for

This is an opportunity for you to bring your experience and skill as an experimentation and analytics professional to a key role. You will actively contribute to the continuous improvement of the user experience through experimentation and insight.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that we focus on activities that genuinely make a difference to our customers across the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia and impact business goals.

As a specialist you will be part of a dynamic team that is determined to build and maintain a best-in-class experimentation programme that is at the centre of the digital development roadmap across all devices and platforms.

In this role you will:

• Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve customer experience and deliver business impact.
• Manage and run testing activity from planning to implementation to analysis.
• Build and test strong hypotheses through AB and MVT testing.
• Analyse and share results in an engaging way with actionable recommendations.
• Utilise Adobe Analytics and other insights tools to segment and evaluate test results.
• Contribute towards the prioritisation process and help shape the product roadmap.
• Follow our Business Code of Conduct and always act with integrity and due diligence.

You will need

Skills and experience relevant for this job:

• Proven track record of managing experimentation activity in a considered way that delivers improved commercial performance and delivers customer insight.
• Customer centric mindset focused on delivering great user experiences
• Demonstrable experience of testing platforms such as Optimizely and Leanplum
• Experience of manipulating and analysing data in Adobe Analytics or similar.
• Good knowledge of experiment design and statistics for testing
• A data-driven mind-set with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Managing and influencing cross functional stakeholders
• University degree in a quantitative discipline or relevant experience
• Experience in challenging the status quo and delivering innovation

In addition, this experience is desirable:

• Experience of working with AB testing tools
• Experience of working with Adobe Analytics
• Experience of working with Tableau
• Experience of working with Alteryx or other BI tools

Key people and teams I work with, in and outside of Tesco:

• Optimisation Managers and Analysts
• Product Managers
• UX Researchers & Designers
• Digital Analysts
• Web and App Engineers

People, budgets and other resources I am accountable for in my job:

• No direct reports
• No direct budget ownership

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.