Product Manager - Address Team

Company Description

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 336 000 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.

We are looking to hire for a maternity cover, either for a B2B contract or UoP.

About the Tesco Technology - Address team

The address and location product team are responsible for managing the product vision, strategy and development of one of Tesco’s core technology foundations – an API Platform that provides a simple, secure and accurate way of managing a customer’s details (e.g. name, address, location etc.) in a cross channel / omnichannel environment.

Our product responds to millions of requests per day, both online and across every till instore. We are central to almost every technology-oriented journey that Tesco has.

If you’ve ever shopped with us you’ve already been a user of the Address and Profile Services.

Responsibilities

As the Product Manager, you’ll be leading an agile team of industry leading engineers upon Tesco’s Address system. You will be responsible for the future direction of the products that we build, solving problems, encouraging your team and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you and your team will be responsible for will have a global reach, impacting millions of customers.

Help to determine the product strategy for this area by working with other Product Managers and the Head of Product for Customer APIs to deliver the product vision.

• Act as the Product Manager and work direct 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 really 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 counterparts to plan sprints / releases that unlock value for complex interdependent outcomes.
• 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

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills
• Use good prioritisation techniques to refine and groom your backlog
• 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
• 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
• Numerate and confident handling data.

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:

• Maternity Cover - UoP or B2B Contracts
• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – for employment contract colleagues only – based on both individual and business performance
• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
• Heightened income costs (KUP)
• MacBook as your tool for work
• Private healthcare (LuxMed)
• Cafeteria & Multisport
• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily
• Sports activities with a personal trainer
• Referral Bonus
• Relocation Help

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.