Product Manager - Finance Data & AI

Tesco UK; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is seeking a Product Manager for the Finance Data & AI Team. The successful candidate will be accountable for developing analytics and AI products that enable finance colleagues to make data-driven decisions. Responsibilities include formulating strategy, ensuring data quality, and facilitating a user-centered design approach. A strong background in Tableau and data transformation tools is essential. This position offers a hybrid working environment accommodating both office and remote work.

Benefits

Hybrid working patterns

Inclusive culture

Diversity celebration

Qualifications

• Ability to conduct user research for product insights.
• Experience with modern data platforms.
• Strong decision-making and prioritisation skills required.

Responsibilities

• Formulate vision and strategy for finance analytics products.
• Coordinate multiple product and engineering teams.
• Lead discovery work for new Finance Analytics products.
• Conduct user research to enhance user experience.
• Ensure data quality and integrity.
• Empower teams to use self-serve analytics environments.

Skills

User-centered design

Tableau proficiency

Data transformation tools (Alteryx)

Cloud platforms

Backlog prioritisation

Strong decision-making

Tools

Dremio

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Job description

Finance Data & AI Team

The Finance Data & AI team is responsible for defining, prioritising and delivering the self‑serve analytics strategy and AI capabilities that enable finance colleagues across Tesco to make faster, data‑driven decisions. We accelerate the self‑serve delivery of financial insights and enhance the value of our analysis to the business. We connect the analytics and insight needs of finance teams to our core data platforms, modern analytics tools, and AI services.

Role Overview

As a Product Manager, you are accountable for developing Analytics and AI Products for internal finance colleagues, ensuring effective self‑serve capabilities through modern analytics platforms and contributing to data‑driven financial decision‑making across the broader Tesco business.

Responsibilities

• Formulate the vision, strategy and roadmap for building finance analytics and AI capabilities, and work with others in aligning strategic priorities, dependencies and roadmap across the finance data product portfolio.
• Plan and coordinate Analytics Products that have dependencies on multiple product, engineering, and finance teams.
• Lead discovery work around a minimum viable product (MVP) for any new Finance Analytics or AI Product, collaborating with finance users, analysts and engineering teams to prototype and validate an MVP.
• Champion user experience by conducting user research with finance colleagues to understand their workflows, pain points, and analytics needs.
• Ensure data quality and integrity by working with the data engineering and finance operations teams.
• Help the team break down sophisticated work/epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster.
• Provide leadership and direction to cross‑functional team(s) on short‑term tasks/near‑term priorities.
• Empower finance teams across Tesco to use self‑serve Analytics environments to derive performance reviews and business insights.

Qualifications

• Strong focus on user‑centered design with the ability to conduct user research and translate user needs into intuitive product experiences for finance colleagues.
• Hands‑on proficiency with Tableau for data visualization and experience with modern data platforms such as Dremio or equivalent.
• Knowledge of data transformation tools such as Alteryx or equivalent ETL platforms.
• Understanding of engineering and infrastructure best practices and practicalities to help resolve delivery challenges.
• Knowledge of modern data architectures including cloud platforms, SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Expertise in using tools & techniques for backlog prioritisation, managing dependencies and gaining insights using available data points.
• Experience crafting outputs for both technical and non‑technical audiences, including finance leadership.
• Ownership, responsiveness and dedication towards assigned work.
• Strong decision‑making and prioritisation skills, especially when multiple trade‑offs are involved and faster decisions are required.

Company Culture

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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.