Product Manager

Sainsbury’s Group; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Colleague discount

Pensions and life cover

Performance bonus up to 20%

Annual holiday + extra week

Private healthcare

Cycle to work

Job summary

Sainsbury’s Group is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead a major Data & Analytics product area within Commercial, shaping how data and insight influence decisions that matter to customers and the business.

You will work with Commercial, Analytics, Product, Engineering and Data Science teams to set direction, translate opportunities into measurable outcomes, and deliver high-impact products in a complex data-rich environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning and leading a complex product area from strategy to value realization.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, direction and roadmap for a significant Data & Analytics product area, creating clarity on the problems we are solving and the outcomes we want to achieve.

Skills

Product management

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Discovery

Roadmaps

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic judgment

Tools

BI tools

AI capabilities

Job description

As a Senior Product Manager working within our Commercial area, you'll lead a significant Data & Analytics product area and shape how data and insight are used to improve some of the decisions that matter most to our customers and our business. You'll work closely with Commercial, Analytics, Product, Engineering and Data Science colleagues to understand the problems we need to solve, set the direction for your product area and turn opportunities into measurable outcomes. It's an opportunity to work on complex, high-impact Commercial challenges while helping us continue to strengthen how we work as a Product organisation. What you'll do

• Own the strategy, direction and roadmap for a significant Data & Analytics product area, creating clarity on the problems we are solving and the outcomes we want to achieve.
• Partner closely with Commercial teams to understand their decisions, challenges and opportunities, identifying where data, analytics, BI and emerging AI capabilities can improve outcomes and translating these into clear product priorities.
• Lead discovery and delivery, using data, insight and customer understanding to test opportunities and determine where we should invest.
• Define measurable customer and business outcomes and use evidence to prioritise investment and demonstrate the impact your products are having.
• Work across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science and Delivery teams to turn strategy into valuable products and capabilities.
• Manage priorities, dependencies and trade-offs, breaking larger opportunities into smaller increments that deliver value early and often.
• Continually review and evolve your product area, including simplifying, modernising or retiring existing products where they no longer meet business needs.
• Help move our analytical products beyond simply explaining what happened, towards helping colleagues understand what to do next.
• Contribute to our wider Product community, helping develop our product culture, capability and ways of working.
  You're an experienced Product Manager who is comfortable working in a complex, data-rich environment and turning ambiguity into clear direction.

You combine strong product judgement with curiosity about how a business works. You're interested in the decisions colleagues need to make, the problems behind them and how data, analytics and technology can help. You're equally comfortable working with senior Commercial stakeholders and multidisciplinary technical teams, and you can bring different perspectives together around a shared problem and outcome. You don't need to be a data scientist or engineer, but you should be comfortable working with data and technology and able to understand enough of the detail to make good product decisions.

• Proven experience owning and leading a complex product area, from strategy and discovery through to delivery and value realisation.
• Experience defining product strategy and roadmaps based on customer and business problems rather than simply managing a backlog of requirements.
• Evidence of delivering measurable customer and/or business outcomes through digital, data, analytics or insight products.
• Strong product discovery skills, with experience using evidence and insight to understand problems, test opportunities and prioritise investment.
• Experience working across multidisciplinary teams and bringing business and technical colleagues together around shared outcomes.
• Strong strategic judgement, including the ability to prioritise competing needs, make effective trade-offs and communicate the rationale behind decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to make complex topics clear to senior and non-technical audiences.

DataAndAnalytics

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 save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. 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 up to an additional week's holiday, and we provide private healthcare. 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, salary 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. 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).