Product Manager (Store Platform)

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 

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Product Manager to join our Store Platform area. As part of your responsibilities, you'll be working on the Rollout API. It's a platform and application deployment channel, which we're using to plan, execute, monitor and perform post execution tasks for multi-device rollout across the enterprise. The scale of the scope makes it very interesting, as currently we have over 37,000 Tesco Tills across the UK and Ireland.  

You will be responsible for

• Product Ownership: Own and evolve the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for the rollout process for platform and applications.

• Customer-Centric solutions: Work directly with customers to address their problems, build solutions and drive fast adoption.

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with developers, deployment teams, and other product managers (e.g. platform and pipeline leads) to deliver cohesive and performant solutions across multiple teams in different geographies

• Agile Delivery: Manage sprint planning, feature grooming, prioritizing user stories, and driving iterative delivery of high-value features, collecting feedback.

• Fast and safe installations and deployment: Ensure Tesco business applications, platforms are always available, up to date and safe.

You will need

Experience:

• Proven experience as a Product Manager, preferably on platform management and deployment

• Demonstrated discovery skills in technical product management- able to engage with engineers, surface their problems, and design smart solutions.

• Familiarity with development and deployment lifecycle, tools and process

• Strong product management fundamentals – vision, strategy, backlog management, prioritisation, user story writing and execution

• Strong interpersonal skills including communication, negotiations and influencing internal and external stakeholders.

• Experience working in Agile and/or Kanban. Good working knowledge of tools like Aha, Confluence, Jira.

Skills:

• Product Methodologies    

• Consumer Empathy    

• Experimentation & Validation 

• Understanding & driving Product Vision & Strategy      

• Research Skills      

• Prioritisation   

• Stakeholder Management

• Building a Roadmap   

• Communicating and Managing a Long-term Product Roadmap

• Development Life-cycle & CI/CD knowledge

• Development and deployment experience   

• Retail Technology Awareness   

• Communication & Influencing   

• Data Analytics & Insights 

• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving     

• Curiosity & Learning   

• Embracing and Enabling Change   

• Development Life-cycle & CI/CD knowledge

• Development and deployment experience

  
  

Unsure if you fit all the criteria? Apply and give us the chance to evaluate your potential – you could be the perfect fit!

Additional information

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.

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

• 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.