Senior Product Manager - Supply Chain

Division/Dept

Sainsbury’s Tech

Reporting to

Group Product Manager

In a nutshell

As Senior Product Manager in Supply Chain, you’ll focus on understanding, anticipating, and exceeding customer product needs. You will create opportunities to appeal broadly to customers and champion their long-term vision to support our business strategy. By considering the market context, you’ll articulate the business benefits of products, track effort and value delivery, and identify opportunities for cost reduction and quality improvement.

You’ll utilize various techniques to understand the tech landscape and customer expectations, using product metrics to prioritize your roadmap effectively and leverage data and insights for informed decision-making.

This enables us to equip our colleagues with the right tools to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy, our tech performs, solving problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to simplify our customers' lives. We keep warehouses and stores operating smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our customers is important to us.

Every week, we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. To provide brilliant customer experiences at this pace, we need fresh and appealing products available whenever and however customers shop with us. Our role in this area is to ensure that happens.

By engineering innovative, smart technology, we empower our colleagues to run a global supply chain. From wine from New Zealand to milk from local farms, our tech performs, solving problems at scale, processing billions of records, and making customers' lives easier. We operate 24/7 to keep our warehouses and stores running smoothly because our customers’ needs are our priority.

What you need to know

This role focuses on Supply Chain capabilities, leading significant growth initiatives to meet group objectives. You will develop strategic priorities and multi-year roadmaps to drive growth and revenue while optimizing existing supply chain capabilities.

• Proven experience in digital product management for both consumer-facing and internal products.
• Understanding of engineering build and OTS products.
• Strong knowledge of product discovery, agile methodologies, and software development lifecycle.
• Data-driven mindset with fluency in analytics and technical architecture, capable of translating requirements into product solutions.
• Understanding of software development, web technologies, and user interface design.

What you need to do

Product Leadership

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle management.
• Define and promote the product vision, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Lead innovative ML/AI initiatives to achieve strategic objectives.

Requirements Engineering

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document requirements.
• Research customer needs, competitors, and technological trends for new product development.
• Translate strategies into detailed requirements and prototypes.
• Create user stories and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.

Backlog & Stakeholder Management

• Prioritize the product backlog for maximum value delivery.
• Align with cross-functional teams on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Partner with engineering teams to develop new features.
• Maintain clarity and scope in innovation projects.
• Support product launches and develop release plans.
• Manage the product lifecycle, including success metrics.

Governance & Documentation

• Establish data and system governance standards.
• Maintain comprehensive product documentation.

Support we will provide

• Colleague discounts across our brands, holiday allowance, bonus scheme, pension, and special offers.
• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.

Responsibilities

In our modern environment, we handle vast data, transactions, and variety, requiring advanced tech standards and principles. We invest in our Tech Academy and promote agile, Scrum, and XP practices to foster innovation in AI and reusable tech.