Associate Product Manager (Colleague Transformation)

About the role

The purpose of the Colleague Transformation Programme is to earn the trust of our colleagues in a simple and helpful way. The programme aims to provide colleagues with a better experience of working at Tesco, enhanced by technology that’s accessible anywhere and available to everyone. By reducing manual tasks and admin our Colleagues, Managers and People Partners will be able to focus on their work, building their skills and building teams.

The Associate Product Manager will help build the vision for the Colleague Facts API and deliver it across every country Tesco operates in. This is a particularly exciting time to join the team as we are at the forefront of Tesco’s global technology transformation, so we have executive sponsorship and substantial budget. The role spans the whole product lifecycle.

Please reach out if you are an individual who looks for the customer angle amidst technical complexity, naturally unites stakeholders around a vision, and is unrelenting in delivering value as soon as possible to make a real difference for hundreds of thousands of colleagues across the globe.

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. 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 (for all): 

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities 

• MacBook as your tool for work 

• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy

• Referral Bonus 

• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office 

Benefits for colleagues on employment of contract only: 

• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life 

• Up to 10% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance 

• Private healthcare (LuxMed) 

• Cafeteria & Multisport 

• Supporting those, who are not yet eligible for full holiday entitlement, by expanding their pool from 20 to 25 days 

• Relocation Help 

• IP Tax Deductible Costs 

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. 

You will be responsible for

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Have accountability for features within a complex product domain, and help drive product vision, roadmap and execution

• Relentlessly seek to understand the needs and pain points of my customers and business stakeholders

• Prioritise roadmaps with multiple optimisation criteria and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders

• Proactively partner with peers and senior stakeholders to help set the future direction of my product as part of the wider business strategy

• Ability to visualise and explain complexity to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly

• Transparency and honesty about risks and uncertainties while pushing forward and adjusting to lessons learned

• Empathy and good listening skills to understand the needs/ pain points of your customers/ stakeholders

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/ acceptance criteria

• Understanding of User Research/ Design Thinking concepts

You will need

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Domain expertise in online products, APIs and international product delivery. Experience in authentication and customer onboarding is a plus

• Prioritising and allocating resources across a product portfolio serving different needs, objectives and timeframes

• Taken at least 1 new product/idea from conception to go-live, through standard software product development lifecycle and got measurable success across defined KPIs

• Understanding a typical Software Development Lifecycle

• 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

• Documenting and explaining new requirements to engineers using tools such as Confluence/Jira/Miro

• Working in cross-functional teams distributed across multiple countries

About us

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 330 000 colleagues. 

Our software is used by millions of people across several countries every day. Whether it’s the tills and websites our customers use, or the systems our colleagues and partners use, you’ll play your part in keeping it running like a well-oiled machine. And when a business problem pops up? You and the creative minds in our team will be challenged to solve it. 

As Tech Hub we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology Hubs located in the UK, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and India. 

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