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Lead Product Manager - Commercial Product

Tesco

Welwyn Garden City

Hybrid

GBP 55,000 - 65,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

A leading company in retail is seeking a Lead Product Manager for its Commercial Product team, aimed at transforming product management practices. The role requires strong leadership in managing product strategies, overseeing a skilled team, and ensuring alignment between business needs and product development.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme up to 20% of base salary

25 days holiday plus personal day

Private medical insurance

Comprehensive maternity and paternity leave

24/7 virtual GP service

Qualifications

Proven success in managing product teams.
Experience in driving product strategy.
Ability to manage UX/UI and transactional APIs effectively.

Responsibilities

Lead the Product Management team and define product strategies.
Develop and manage a portfolio of products and stakeholder relationships.
Ensure alignment of team objectives with company goals and KPIs.

Skills

Product Management

Stakeholder Management

UX/UI understanding

Education

Degree in relevant field

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To transform how we Buy and
Manage Products for Customers. Change is underway here at Tesco and the Commercial
Product team sits at its heart.

Supporting the business to
define how our colleagues work with each other and with our partners, ensuring
processes across Buy and Manage are simple, standard and effective; we are
accountable for the creation of world leading technology Products which embed
this best practice alongside world class data science.

Together we are empowering our
colleagues to deliver relevant, timely, loved, innovative and compliant
products to our customers however they choose to shop with us.

If you are looking for a Product role where you will lead a team of Product Managers with the opportunity to contribute in a very real way to Tesco’s success, we would love to hear from you!

About the role

To transform how we Buy and
Manage Products for Customers. Change is underway here at Tesco and the Commercial
Product team sits at its heart.

Together we are empowering our
colleagues to deliver relevant, timely, loved, innovative and compliant
products to our customers however they choose to shop with us.

If you are looking for a Product role where you will lead a team of Product Managers with the opportunity to contribute in a very real way to Tesco’s success, we would love to hear from you!

You will be responsible for

Reporting
to the Head of Product Management for Product Lifecycle, you lead a team of
talented Product Managers, and are accountable for a set of complex and company
strategic UIs and services within the Product portfolio and would drive product
strategy, roadmap and execution for them. You will own the vision &
strategy for the exciting Quality area which is the heart of our Magnetic Value
pillar. You will be working with the Quality business, Online team and
Marketplace and F&F propositions.

A
master practitioner of Product Management, you are responsible for ensuring
that your team contains the product management resources and skills required to
ensure you can successfully execute the strategy and roadmap for your portfolio
of products.

• Have
accountability for a complex set of UIs and APIs that involve multiple
internal/external stakeholders, and drive product strategy, roadmap and
execution for that by leading a team of talented Product Managers.

•
Understand your business stakeholders and their pain points really well and
steer your team in the right direction by putting the best team members in the
most value generating products/ business priorities.

•
Set clear goals and KPIs for your team members and periodically review all the
KPIs owned by the team spanning across multiple products and provide feedback
on improving those.

•
Handle conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly and understand how to
drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented and
opinionated team.

•
Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working with your Head of
Product and other stakeholders and proactively flag any risks or delays in your
commitments.

•
Contribute in capability and capacity planning to Product Management for your own
Product area to ensure capacity to drive work.

•
Build and nurture a great team of Product Managers for your Product, based on
the business needs, strategic priorities assigned, and level of focus required.

•
Carry out people routines for direct reports and develop talented people.

• Identify and remove impediments to ensure your team is successful in delivering
the committed deliverables.

•
Motivate the team by ensuring they have fulfilling roles, proper rewards and
recognition strategies.

•
Conduct fair performance appraisals and provide constructive feedback for your
team.

•
Collaborate with Head of Product to understand future demand and direction of your
product.

• Be responsible for achieving or exceeding agreed
product KPIs improvements

You will need

• Carrying out
product management of both UIs and APIs and have a clear understanding of
managing domain boundaries between related APIs.

• Have proven
success in line managing a team of product managers
and taken multiple ideas from conception to go-live, through standard software
product development lifecycle and got measurable success across defined KPIs.

• Experienced in
capacity planning, forecasting and working with senior stakeholders to
understand future demands and align allocation/ hiring.

• Knowledge of
underlying business processes and systems.

• Efficient in
stakeholder management and has ability to steer the team in the right direction
by putting best team members in the most value generating Products/ Business
priorities

Extensive experience with both UX/UI and transactional APIs and
service-orientedarchitecture. Technically competent to influence and
understand the solution context and approach (legacy, tactical, strategic) and
aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.

Whats in it for you?
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Hereto find out more!

Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary

Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)

Private medical insurance

26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave

Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About Us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Product Management and Marketing
Industries
Retail

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