Staff Product Manager

Sainsbury’s Group; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a candidate to manage the Commercial Data Services strategy. Responsibilities include collaborating with various teams, prioritizing initiatives, and ensuring alignment with product goals. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a strong understanding of retail and technology. This role offers extensive benefits, including discounts at the company's brands, a pension plan, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Pension plan

Flexible working hours

Private healthcare

Qualifications

• Comfortable with systems thinking, strategy, and long-term planning.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and work cross-functionally.
• Understanding of retail business and technology landscape.
• Familiar with product development principles and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage success of strategic Commercial Data Services.
• Coordinate alignments with other product teams.
• Work with stakeholders to implement product goals.
• Prioritize and deliver key initiatives to drive value.

Skills

Strategic thinker

Agile delivery understanding

Stakeholder influencing

Problem-solving abilities

Team contribution

Job description

Responsibilities

• This role is placed in Commercial Core area (incl. Food, General Merchandise and Clothing), spanning some of the highest profile areas such as Price, Promotion, Range, Space, Locations, Item, Supplier and Cost. The Commercial products you'll be working with are in operation 24/7 across every division of Sainsbury's to ensure we're providing the right teams with the right data necessary for our customers - from moving products around our network to the allergen information that gets presented to customers.
• You will be responsible for managing the success of our strategic Commercial Data Services. Specifically focused on owning our strategy to ensure the services are modern, flexible and fit for purpose in an ever changing commercial environment.
• You will work very closely with the Senior Product Managers/ owners of the Data Services to fulfil their roadmaps. You will also work closely with engineering and delivery to ensure initiatives are on track, supporting teams reduce their dependencies, risks and blockers.
• You will work closely with a wide array of Commercial Data Services consumers such as Supply Chain, Logistics, Digital and Finance - prioritising and delivering key initiatives to drive value to Sainsbury's.
• You will work with both commercial and technical stakeholders to share and deliver on our vision; steering the direction of development, interacting frequently with senior leaders, and working closely with a range of teams to ensure activity is prioritised in line with the agreed product goals and metrics.
• You will be responsible for the coordination and alignment with other product teams to develop and launch new products and to continually improve customer experience.
• Always considering the market context and ever-evolving technology and legislative environment, you will clearly articulate the business benefit of potential and current products, while tracking both effort and value delivery, to identify opportunities for cost reduction and quality improvement.

Qualifications

• You are a strategic thinker, comfortable with systems thinking, strategy and long-term planning.
• You are comfortable influencing a variety of senior stakeholders, working cross-functionally and connecting the dots.
• You possess knowledge and understanding of a retail business and technology landscape, and how to maximise the value that commercial products can and will add.
• You have a clear understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
• You have knowledge of product development principles and methodologies.
• You demonstrate great value behaviours and a growth mindset coupled with drive, determination, and desire.
• You have judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace - comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and helping drive toward clarity.
• You have an ability to creatively solve problems and enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology.
• You have a high level of team contribution, seeking opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus - a role model effective collaboration.

Benefits & Opportunities

• 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. #LI-KF1 We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whatever 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. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we'll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave.