Group Product Manager - Integration Platforms

Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pension and life cover

Performance bonus up to 20%

Private healthcare

Job summary

Sainsbury's Tech in London is seeking a Group Product Manager to lead product teams delivering integrated platforms and real-time data services. You will shape the vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog, owning customer and business value while guiding cross‑functional delivery with delivery, engineering and architecture partners.

Reporting to the Head of Product, you will mentor other product managers, communicate complex technical concepts to senior stakeholders, and ensure alignment with our

Qualifications

• Proven track record delivering complex technology-led changes at scale.
• Experience with internal platforms or integration technologies.
• Strong communication and influencing skills at senior levels.
• Decision making in ambiguous situations with clarity.

Responsibilities

• Deliver value through products that drive strategy and trust in data.
• Lead other Product managers to maximize value for internal customers.
• Own vision, strategy, roadmap and backlog for your product with prioritisation.
• Discuss technical details enough to understand customer problems.
• Collaborate with teams across domains to prioritise end-to-end data processes.
• Champion integration principles aligned to the north star strategy.
• Monitor industry trends to guide future investment.

Skills

Product strategy

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical understanding

Stakeholder communication

Tools

API gateways

Integration platforms

Job description

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 06 September 2026
Requisition ID: 400078339

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Reporting to

Head of Product

In a nutshell

We’rea multi-channel business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. Across our entire technology estate we are delivering exciting outcomes that enrich the experience of our customers and colleagues.

The customer is at the heart of everything we do, which is why we have put them at the centre of our vision, to serve and help more customers, more of the time. We do not distinguish between tech and the business, we are one team, one organisation, driving brilliant experiences across our brands.

Weoperate inan inclusive, agile environment.You’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges in a community ofinspired and multi-disciplinedcolleagueswho are empowered to solve hard problems.

Specifically focusing on this role:

As part of a Product team and workingin close collaboration with delivery, engineering andarchitectureyou’ll focus on providing consistent and efficient integration and technology platforms to our engineering community. This includes ownership directly or through direct reports for real-time event platforms, standardised common integration build capabilities, as well as API gateways and discoverability.

You’ll be part of a wider Integration Factory Product team embedded within our Tech Platforms pillar, with a reach across all of our Sainsbury’s Tech colleagues in all domains.

What you need to do

As aGroup ProductManager, you will:

• Deliver value through products that make a fundamental difference to our strategy and ambitions through collaboration and adoption of frameworks that enshrine trust in our data
• To lead other Product managers to ensure they deliver maximum value and alignment to the needs of our primary internal customers
• Be accountable fordeveloping the vision, strategy,roadmap and backlog for your product, own the customer and business value, and make effective prioritisation choices to deliver maximum value and return on capital, ensuring we meet our corporate plan commitments.
• Be comfortable discussing technical details sufficiently to understand our internal customers problem statements
• Be expected to regularly working with teams from across domains to understand our key end-to-end data processes to prioritise where the greatest opportunities and needs exist
• Champion our principles – ensuring the journey, destination and decisions we make regarding Integrations align to our north start strategy and remove constraints for federated engineering teams to deliver greater value at pace.
• Monitor relevant industry trends keeping personal knowledge up to date with the latest developments and innovations pertinent to modern integrations and operational data flows. Build confidence as the subject matter expert for your product, helping to guide future investment.

Who we are looking for

• A proventrack record of leading delivery ofcomplextechnology led change in cross-functional environments; you have shipped products at scale that customers and colleagueslove.
• Experience with integration technologies or management of internal technology platforms
• Strong communicationand influencing skills, particularly at senior levels
• Judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace, including comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and help drive toward clarity
• Motivating and influencing transformational change
• Creative problem solving, enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology
• A high levelof team contribution, seek opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus, role model effective collaboration

Support we will provide

• An environment that fosters and supports progression within our organisation whether that be horizontally or vertically
• Access to personal development tools including industry leader Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, and internal mentoring/coaching
• Internal productexpertise and co-learning opportunities within a highly collaborative environment
• Opportunities to attend external events
• Product Competency Frameworkand Community of Practice
• Flexible ‘smart working’ approach to how and where you complete your work

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).