Product Manager – Location / Price Integrity

Company Description

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, 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

Job Description

This job requires to be based in/close to Kraków. We currently work in a hybrid model and meet in our office 3 days a week.

This is a key and exciting role that puts you at the heart of our business helping to ensure all of our customers pay the right price, every time and everywhere they shop with us. We price up to eight million baskets a day, so this role is vital to building price trust with our customers.

The Product Manager for Price Integrity is responsible for managing the product vision, strategy and development of one of Tesco’s core technology services, which is a vital component that enables customers to have complete trust in Tesco prices. This includes visualisation of large data sets for Engineering, Product and senior stakeholders.

Price Integrity is a new domain within Tesco’s Retail Platform, and so there is a lot of room to influence the outcomes and long-term strategy in this area.You will also work closely with our Location domain, central to almost every technology-oriented journey that Tesco has, reporting into the Lead Product Manager for that domain.

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;

• Execute on and evolve the product strategy for Price Integrity by working with colleagues in Engineering, as well as the Head of Product and Directors of Product and Engineering. 
• Act as the Product Manager and work directly with the development team and other stakeholders to break down complex pieces of work into manageable slices of value with the aim to deliver as frequently as possible.  
• Navigate and manage conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence in all those around you.
• Deliver simple, well described, prioritised stories to your development team whilst ensuring context of the works importance is shared and the value it delivers is clear.
• Relentlessly measure and communicate value created to all stakeholders, all the time.
• Work with delivery colleagues to plan work that unlocks value for Tesco and our customers.
• Work closely with your products’ customers, analytics teams and business stakeholders to understand the issues they face, lead discovery work to define minimum viable products (MVP) and minimum product fit for each new feature.

Qualifications

You will need:

•  At least 3 years of experience in managing products in an Agile environment 
• Good prioritization techniques to make difficult trade-off decisions and refine your backlog.
• Knowledge and experience of current software development methodologies and processes. 
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/ acceptance criteria.
• Numerate and confident handling high volumes of data.
• Able to focus on more than one domain at any given time.
• Back-end, platform or API Product Management experience.
• Experience of User Research/Design Thinking concepts and applied those for your product work.
• Knowledge of tools used in the environment, such as Miro, Confluence, Aha!

Personal:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as the ability to explain complex things to a non-technical audience.
• A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills.
• Empathy and good listening skills to understand the needs/ pain points of your customers/ stakeholders.

Additional information

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 (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, Pluralsight and O’reily
• 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 20% 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
• Heightened income costs (KUP)

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.