Product Manager - Insights (12 Month Secondment)

Tesco UK; Digswell; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Tesco UK is seeking a Product Manager to own the strategy for collaboration tools and drive value for Tesco colleagues globally from Welwyn Garden City. You will shape the enterprise product delivery and collaborate with teams across the business to unlock data-driven improvements.

You will partner with stakeholders and Senior Product Manager to craft the vision, roadmap, and MVPs, steering releases that maximise business value while keeping customers at the heart of decisions.

Qualifications

• Articulating a product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.
• Experience and understanding of agile techniques to deliver world beating products
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly.
• Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions
• Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested
• Prioritisation and decision-making skills demonstrating how these have taken into account business priorities, complexity, dependencies and value.
• Experience running and implementing Jira, Confluence and/or Portfolio Management products across an Enterprise organisation

Responsibilities

• Have ownership of a Product involving multiple internal/ external stakeholders and drive the Product strategy & execution for it
• Engage with stakeholders and Senior Product Manager to formulate the vision, strategy and long-term roadmap and execute it well by constantly managing the stakeholders expectations, working through dependencies across multiple products/ teams
• Understand key user personas, customers & stakeholders for my product and their pain points really well
• Understand and demonstrate all the features to different audiences within and outside of our immediate product team
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories, personas, and acceptance tests and help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work/ epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster
• Steer sprint/ release planning sessions by working with my delivery counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort
• Lead discovery work around minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/feature, collaborating with delivery teams to prototype and validate the MVP
• Present to other Tesco Product areas and its functional/ engineering capabilities
• Drive experiments against defined hypotheses, create MVPs towards robust data-driven decisions on product improvements and their influence on product performance indicators
• Prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently
• This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team and delivering value, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

Skills

Product strategy

Agile methods

Communication

Learning quickly

Data-driven decisions

Technical understanding

Prioritisation

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world.

We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we’re finding bigger and better ways to provide it.

Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We’re driving innovation and transforming our Technology to become the world’s leading retailer.

We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; Passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities.

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.

The position will be based at our Welwyn Garden City office.

About the Capability Team

We aim to provide colleagues with a great experience by providing world class tooling, processes, and advice. We believe in solutions that are either self-service or invisible to the end user - that’s not always easy to achieve, but it’s what we strive for. With over 460,000 colleagues globally, this is an opportunity to make your mark.

Our vision is to protect the reputation of Tesco, maximise system availability and enable colleagues to work smarter.

About this role:

Our vision is to provide seamless collaborative experience for all Tesco Colleagues globally and enable them to take data driven decisions, enabling them to stay connected, be efficient and add value to our customers.

If you’re a Product Manager that’s customer focused, thrives with hard problems, loves a fast-moving environment, and wants to make a real difference to our colleagues across the globe then please get in touch.

The ideal candidate will be able to shape the enterprise strategy for our Product delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence and Miro.

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Have ownership of a Product involving multiple internal/ external stakeholders and drive the Product strategy & execution for it

• Engage with stakeholders and Senior Product Manager to formulate the vision, strategy and long-term roadmap and execute it well by constantly managing the stakeholders expectations, working through dependencies across multiple products/ teams

• Understand key user personas, customers & stakeholders for my product and their pain points really well

• Understand and demonstrate all the features to different audiences within and outside of our immediate product team

• Effectively document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories, personas, and acceptance tests and help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work/ epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster

• Steer sprint/ release planning sessions by working with my delivery counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort

• Lead discovery work around minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/feature, collaborating with delivery teams to prototype and validate the MVP

• Present to other Tesco Product areas and its functional/ engineering capabilities

• Drive experiments against defined hypotheses, create MVPs towards robust data-driven decisions on product improvements and their influence on product performance indicators

• Prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently

• This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team and delivering value, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Articulating a product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.

• Experience and understanding of agile techniques to deliver world beating products

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.

• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly.

• Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions

• Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested

• Prioritisation and decision-making skills demonstrating how these have taken into account business priorities, complexity, dependencies and value.

Desirable:

• Experience running and implementing JIRA, Confluence and/or Portfolio Management products across an Enterprise organisation

• Vendor management experience

Personal

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self‑starter

• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership

• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you’re just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we’re here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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