Senior Product Manager - Supply Chain Inventory

Sainsbury's; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a Senior Product Manager in Supply Chain Inventory to understand and exceed customer needs. This role involves developing product strategies, managing delivery, and collaborating across teams. Ideal candidates will have a strong understanding of retail, agile methodologies, and exceptional problem-solving skills, offering a flexible and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Colleague discount across multiple brands

Holiday allowance

Bonus scheme

Pension plan

Special offers on memberships and retail vouchers

Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of a Retail business and technology landscape is essential.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking and the ability to see the bigger picture.
• Understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
• Ability to translate business goals into a product roadmap.
• Experience with working with both onshore and offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Support strategy and develop specific roadmaps and backlogs for products.
• Own customer and business value for specific products.
• Accountable for end-to-end delivery in product management.
• Maintain a realistic 90-day roadmap and communicate progress.
• Lead collaboration with product teams and 3rd parties.

Skills

Understanding of Retail business

Strategic thinking

Agile delivery

Technical product development principles

Problem-solving

Stakeholder relationship management

Job description

External candidates, if offered, will be expected to commence employment on 02/03/2026.

Senior Product Manager - Supply Chain Inventory

As Senior Product Manager in Supply Chain, you’ll focus on understanding, anticipating and exceeding customer product needs, creating opportunities to add broad appeal to customers and championing their long‑term vision to support our business strategy. You’ll clearly articulate the business benefit of potential and current products while tracking effort and value delivery to identify opportunities for cost reduction and quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• You’ll support the strategy and develop specific roadmaps and backlogs for products, building in complete end‑to‑end customer experiences that deliver on agreed product metrics (OKRs).
• You’ll own the customer and business value for specific products, securing support through the appropriate process and relevant technology teams.
• Accountable for end‑to‑end delivery in product management for specific products, ensuring activity is prioritised in line with the agreed product goals and metrics.
• You’ll maintain a realistic 90‑day roadmap, a prioritised, estimated FY backlog and regularly communicate progress, proactively managing risks/issues to remove blockers.
• Lead collaboration within the core family team, other product teams and 3rd parties to launch new product features, maximising re‑use across the business.
• Evaluate potential partner relationships and help identify necessary and/or desirable third‑party technology to evaluate and select vendors.
• You’ll support the communication and resolution of live product incidents and effectively prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of production issues.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of a Retail business and the technology landscape is essential while work experience in Supply Chain is desirable.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking and seeing the bigger picture of how to maximise the value that products can and will add across the E2E ecosystem.
• Understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
• Knowledge of technical product development principles, data modelling and methodologies.
• Ability to translate business goals, technology strategy and market knowledge into a product roadmap that prioritises delivery of value and enables future business agility.
• Anticipating risks and opportunities, responding to escalations at pace and coaching others to find solutions based on your expertise.
• Ability to switch between strategic visioning and getting into the detail, being the authority in all aspects of your product.
• Awareness of existing and future stacks/interfaces for the product and how to develop these so they work seamlessly for customers and colleagues.
• A high level of team contribution, seeking opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus.
• An awareness of how our data is used across our business.
• Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity in order to cut through issues and solve complex problems.
• Understanding of Key Performance Metric Indicators (KPI metrics) and how they are used to support business processes.
• Ability to address priority challenges and decisions in a calm, pragmatic and professional manner.
• Ability to navigate across multiple domains to help secure requirements, stakeholder relationships, and key technical solutions.
• Experience with working with both onshore and offshore teams.

Benefits

• Colleague discount across our multi‑brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat.
• Holiday allowance.
• Bonus scheme.
• Pension plan.
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

Work‑life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

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.