Lead Product Manager - Data Supply and Management

Tesco; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco is seeking a Lead Product Manager to shape the vision and strategy for Data Management and Data Apps across the Tesco ecosystem. You will lead cross-functional teams, align roadmaps with business goals and enable data-driven decisions to support analytics, AI, and operations.

The role is hybrid, based 3 days a week at our London and Welwyn Garden City offices, with a focus on governance, data quality, lineage and metadata.

Qualifications

• Experience leading data product domains (data management, data apps)
• Ability to translate complex business challenges into data-driven solutions
• Strong stakeholder collaboration across multiple business units

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product vision, strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer experience objectives.
• Prioritise work and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders to maximise business value.
• Translate complex business challenges into innovative, data-driven solutions that improve colleague productivity.
• Document and explain requirements to engineering teams using user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Steer sprint and release planning with engineering to deliver maximum business value with minimal effort.
• Provide product-led data platform and data asset management to ensure quality data and metadata for stakeholders.
• Build and nurture a high-performing team of Product Managers based on business needs and strategic priorities.

Skills

Product leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Roadmapping

Data governance

Team leadership

User stories

Education

University degree in quantitative discipline

Job description

As a Lead Product Manager, you will evolve and lead the product vision, strategy and delivery for Data Management and Data Apps, including capabilities such as Ingestion, Data Discovery (cataloguing and metadata), Data Quality, Lineage, Personal Data Management and Governance.

Your products will enable teams across Tesco to supply, discover, understand, trust, and govern data effectively, supporting analytics, AI, and critical operational use cases. This role requires strong product leadership across a broad and complex stakeholder landscape, with accountability for shaping strategy, setting priorities and delivering measurable outcomes across a sophisticated data product domain.

The Team:

The team is responsible for developing and managing Data & AI products that drive intelligent experiences, decisions and actions across the Tesco ecosystem. We work in close partnership with business and technology teams across Stores, Finance, People, Customer, Commercial to enable the seamless build, consumption, integration and expansion of Data & AI capabilities.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team and play a leading role in Data Management and Data Applications across the business core domains.

This is a hybrid role with the expectation of being based at our London and Welwyn Garden City offices 3 days a week.

• Define and own the product vision, strategy and roadmap, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer experience objectives.
• Prioritise work and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders to maximise business value.
• Translate complex business challenges into innovative, data-driven solutions that improve colleague productivity.
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to engineering teams using user stories with acceptance criteria and help break down complex work into smaller, deliverable chunks for faster delivery.
• Steer sprint and release planning sessions with engineering counterparts to plan iterations that deliver maximum business value with minimal effort.
• Prioritise, coordinate, and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently.
• Provide product-led, data platform and data asset management, assuring the supply of quality data and metadata for value creation by multiple stakeholders.
• Build and nurture a high-performing team of Product Managers based on business needs and strategic priorities.
• Empower and develop your team to continually deliver value, fostering a culture of inclusion, innovation and continuous learning.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and targeted upskilling initiatives to develop expertise in product management and emerging technologies.
• Provide leadership and direction to cross functional teams on short term tasks and mid / long term priorities.
• Identify and remove challenges faced by the team by working with your Head of Product and other stakeholders, proactively flagging risks or delays.
• Ensure Data & AI products adhere to governance, security and ethical standards.
• Appraises and analyses customer research results to influence product outcomes and strategic goals.
• Maintains excellent stakeholder relationships and facilitates cross-functional alignment on product direction.
• Understands how diverse personas or customer groups perceive, interpret and experience products in different ways.
• Applies UX/UI disciplines and principles to product design, ensuring intuitive and customer-friendly interaction.
• Develops hypothesis statements and collaborates with engineers to set up and execute experiments.
• Understands AI productivity technology systems and monitors health metrics.
• Engages in market research, leveraging insights to shape product vision and strategic direction aligned with business, technology goals and customer expectations.
• Utilises various data types appropriately, knowing when to apply quantitative and/or qualitative data.
• Applies knowledge of the Product Management lifecycle, delivery processes, and Agile principles to discover, design, define, develop and deliver incremental opportunities that drive growth and value.
• Recognises the importance of data-driven prioritisation and maintains a consistent approach to prioritisation.
• Uses company approved tools to produce and update product roadmaps.
• Understands the role of product roadmaps in creating stakeholder and team alignment.
• Possesses strong business acumen, including knowledge of key commercial drivers, business metrics, and measuring value of productivity gains.
• Experienced in evaluating tool suitability and maintaining an awareness of relevant product capabilities available in the market.
• Highly numerate with a university degree (2:1 or higher) in a quantitative discipline or equivalent relevant experience.

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