Product Manager - Enterprise Data Science

Marks and Spencer; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Summary

As part of a wider product team, using your strong problem-solving skills, you will explore large scale commercial challenges and opportunities where data science product solutions may be used to deliver benefit and value at pace. Challenges such as what products we should buy, how many, where to send them, at what prices and determining our labour needs.

You will need to build credible and trusted relationships, have an understanding of general business strategy and decision-making, strong problem-solving skills, a passion for and an interest in data, and a client-service mind set. This role provides the overall product leadership and direction, and works with the technical skillsets (data science, analytics and engineering) to find the best possible solutions to meet the business needs.

All the details

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special:

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities include:

• Demonstrate thought leadership, drawing on an understanding of the business and data to help leaders identify and prioritise their business problems which can be supported with data products.
• Facilitate and manage the coordination and delivery of data and AI solutions to solve commercial challenges, providing measurable, high value improvements to key performance indicators.
• Work with Data Scientists, Analysts, Data Engineers and UX/UI Designers to develop successful data-driven products and services.
• Play a critical role in bridging the technical expertise of data scientists and engineers with the operational and commercial awareness and expertise of the business teams, helping to ensure that the solutions generated through sophisticated data science translate into products which support colleagues and deliver impact at scale.
• Ensuring an end to end understanding of the problem and through a strong consideration for change management, drive adoption of solutions.

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include:

• An experienced product manager with a strong record of strategic and innovative thinking resulting in data product delivery delivering beneficial business change.
• Experienced at leading discovery and ideation in uncharted data problem spaces. Proven success at launching new data concepts, experiments and products.
• Demonstrable experience of engaging, influencing and communicating to stakeholders at all levels.
• Knowledge, and interest in the evolution of data and AI in enabling business growth.
• Experienced in collaborating with technical teams, showing strong experience in defining, designing, developing and delivering complex data and AI solutions.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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