Product Manager (Time API's)
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Summary
Product Manager at Tesco Technology in Kraków supporting the 'Time' APIs (Contracted Shifts and Planned Schedules) that underpin colleagues' shift patterns and weekly schedules — handling BAU, client onboarding, and continuous API development. Core tools: Jira, Confluence, Aha!, with strong agile and stakeholder-management focus.
About the role
You will work within the Enabling Functions team, supporting our colleagues contractual shift patterns and weekly schedules (Time).
The primary function is to support our 2 existing API’s (Contracted Shifts and Planned Schedules) with BAU activities, including onboarding but also the continuous development of these API’s while our platform continues to evolve to support more clients, more business areas and business requirements while we try to expand but simplify processes.
About us
Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you.
Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.
What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:
- We develop our own products
- We make an impact; large scale of operation
- Accountability and respect are given to us
- We cooperate and support each other
- There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
- We can develop and learn new things
What is in it for you
Hybrid working
We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about different flexible working options. 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, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as you will spend 60% (3 days) of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.
Our benefits
Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with:
- Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
- Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
- Tax-deductible expenses (IP)
- Private healthcare (LuxMed)
- Cafeteria & Multisport
- Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
- Increase in annual leave (from 20 to 25 days) for those not yet eligible for the full holiday entitlement
- Learning opportunities – certified technical training and a learning platform (Udemy)
- Back-to-school day – 1 day off for parents of primary school children
- Fertility leave – up to 2 weeks of paid leave for IVF treatment
- Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office
- Referral bonus
- MacBook as your work tool
If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you!
Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require
Mandatory skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills: ability to create clear and clean documentation that an engineering team can understand, and act upon (main tools: Jira, Confluence, Aha!)
- Highly developed stakeholder management skills: equally at home interacting effectively with an Engineer, and senior team member or peers from across the business or beyond Tesco (suppliers, partners, vendors)
- Great prioritisation and time management skills: able to balance off competing priorities and take a value-based prioritisation approach across it all
- A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills -often from a ‘first principles’ basis
- Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly
- Great presentation and persuasion skills
- Team player who could work collaboratively with other members of the team
- Ownership, responsiveness and commitment towards assigned work
- Strong decision making and prioritization skills, especially when multiple trade-offs are involved and faster decision are required
- Expertise of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/ acceptance criterions
- Great people skills and can gain respect and trust of team members and others working with you
Nice to have skills:
- Good domain expertise in colleague scheduling / payment processes
- Understanding of the business