Product Manager – Colleague Transformation
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Product Manager – Colleague Transformation
Tesco Technology
Kraków
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Mid
Employment Type
B2B, Permanent
Operating mode
Office
Tesco Technology
At Tesco Technology we are building the next generation online and in-store retail platforms which will set the benchmark for a Technology-led customer-centric retail experience. We take responsibility for the software through its entire lifecycle.
Tech stack
Product Management
Agile
Job description
Online interview
Company Description
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.
If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you.
Job Description
About the Colleague Transformation Programme
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 admin our Managers and People Partners will be able to focus on building teams and capability. And our Colleagues will be able to be more productive and focus on building their skills and careers.
The Role – Product Manager – Colleague Transformation
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 complex/ large product(s)/ that involve multiple internal/external stakeholders.
- Leading the development plans: shaping the overall strategy, defining and prioritising business requirements and working with the different business units to ensure their plans are integrated
- Work with other Product Managers, architects and the development team to deliver the roadmap using agile methodologies: prioritising requirements, answering development questions and resolving issues, always putting the customer first.
- Getting involved and working with a team of developers to deliver value iteratively
- Strong technical skills as working predominately with APIs
- Proactively seeking improvements to our ways of working across the various teams involved in the development and ongoing management of our API platform portfolio
- Monitoring and understanding the potential of new technologies and business models, identifying and developing new opportunities for Tesco.
- This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.
Qualifications
Key Skills and Experience
You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills
- 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
- Ownership, responsiveness and commitment towards assigned work
- Strong decision making and prioritization skills, especially when multiple trade-offs are involved, and faster decision are required
- Empathy and good listening skills to understand the needs/ pain points of your customers/ stakeholders
- Excellent facilitation to effectively facilitate requirement gathering/elicitation sessions with senior business leaders/ stakeholders
- Expertise of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/ acceptance criterions
- Understanding of User Research/ Design Thinking concepts
- Great people skills and can gain respect and trust of team members and others working with you
- Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions
- Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested
- Prioritisation and decision-making skills demonstrating how these have taken into account business priorities, complexity, dependencies and value.
- Articulating a product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.
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 chose to join our business, we will provide you with:
- Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities.
- Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – for employment contract colleagues only – based on both individual and business performance
- Extensive private healthcare - complex care package including a wide range of specialists, medical services and free flu vaccination
- Cafeteria & Multisport – subsidized MyBenefit cafeteria platform with option to use the funds on multisport card.
- Relocation Help - professional service to secure relevant working permits and other necessary documents;
- Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily.
- Referral Bonus – You’ll get 4500 PLN for each colleague you successfully refer to work with us.
- Optional life insurance – wide variety of insurance options from our partner, available optionally at a significant discount.