Senior Product Manager (Colleague Facts – Enabling Functions)
Summary
Senior Product Manager at Tesco Technology drives digital product strategy for a global e-commerce retailer, shaping roadmaps and experiments to enhance customer experience across platforms while collaborating with engineering and external agencies.
About the role
Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, in store, on the move … anywhere in their world. With our unrivalled physical and digital assets and an ambitious investment programme, we aim to become the world's best multi-channel retailer.
Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We’re driving innovation, evolving our product development process and transforming our technology to become the world’s leading e-commerce business.
We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers. We want passionate, talented and hardworking individuals willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer a huge challenge, strong support, 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 digital products that could affect the lives of millions of people over the years to come.
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
You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:
- Articulating a complex product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.
- Experience and understanding of agile techniques to deliver world beating products
- Thinking at a conceptual level across a number of platforms
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
- Experience managing work completed from external agencies to ensure the highest standards are met.
- The ability to influence without authority.
- Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions.
- Product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical acumen.
- Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.
- Understanding the impact tech debt is causing, and the value tech upgrades can bring in, and can hold objective conversations with your technology counterparts to prioritize it during any sprint.
- Prioritising and decision-making skills, demonstrating experience of having made good decisions / judgements around business priorities and resource allocation.
Nice to have skills:
- Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
- Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership.
- Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.
- The successful candidate will have a tenacious can-do, will-do mentality.
- Whilst being personally robust and willing to challenge the status quo, you will work closely with other team members and must be able to bring people on a journey with you.
Unsure if you fit all the criteria? Apply and give us the chance to evaluate your potential – you could be the perfect fit!
