Senior Product Manager (Colleague Facts – Enabling Functions)
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 career, 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.
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
Referral Bonus
Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office
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
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 complete ownership of a complex, strategic enterprise API involving multiple internal / external stakeholders and drive the Product strategy and execution for those APIs.
Work with your team and stakeholders to align the strategic priorities, dependencies and roadmap across your product.
Quickly build domain knowledge and assess new opportunities (gathering ideas, research, carrying out analysis, refining and prioritising new requirements).
Steer sprint / release planning sessions in conjunction with engineering counterparts to effectively deliver maximum business value with the least effort.
Identify and drive improvements in the way API performance and service levels are measured to ensure quality, reliability and security.
Lead discovery work around minimum viable products (MVP) for new features, collaborating with delivery teams and internal / external stakeholders to prototype and validating MVPs.
Help the delivery team in breaking down complex pieces of work and create epics and stories to break down large programmes into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster.
Provide leadership and direction to cross-functional delivery teams on short-term tasks / near-term priorities.
Provide support and coaching to Product Managers as well as peers.
Be accountable for the performance / adoption of the APIs and work towards increasing the customer base.
Contribute towards hiring / building a great pool of Product Managers for the Colleague Transformation team and the wider Tesco product function.
This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised and pragmatic, a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind and motivated to make change things for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.
You will need
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!
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.
Want to get to know us better? Watch our team talk about our culture – YouTube
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
Senior Product Manager (Colleague Facts – Enabling Functions)
Senior Product Manager (Colleague Facts – Enabling Functions)