Product Manager – Supplier & Partner Domain (FTC 12 months – Maternity Cover)

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

As the Product Manager in our Supplier & Partner Domain team, you will play a key role in transforming how Tesco manages all aspects of its supplier lifecycle through supplier and colleague facing tools, services, and experiences.

With a focus on three key pillars – Data Accuracy, Data Accessibility and Data Governance – you will shape how data relating to our suppliers and partners is collated from various sources, managed centrally, and shared across the Tesco group. This will drive benefits across all Tesco markets, build trusted partnerships, and support Tesco’s core purpose and values.

Reporting to the Lead Product Manager, you will work alongside other product managers, engineers, analytics, designers (including researchers) and program teams to define and execute the strategy for your portfolio of products (APIs, complex data structures).

We are looking for an ambitious individual who is a self-starter and can demonstrate a passion for solving problems, working collaboratively, and embracing technology and change in what is an exciting and broad area that is foundational to Tesco’s supplier and partner strategy.

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.

• Develop and drive product strategy, aligning with business goals and market trends.
• Create and maintain a product roadmap that delivers value, supports Tesco’s core purpose, and values and drives business agility.
• Analyse large data sets to identify trends and make value-driven decisions for your product.
• Collaborate with analytics, design (including UI/UX, research), engineering, and program teams to develop solutions to address user and business needs and support shared goals.
• Own product performance, continuously measuring and communicating its impact to key stakeholders.
• Mentor and support junior Product Managers and peers.

Experience relevant for this role

• Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical experience
• Technically competent to influence and understand the context and approach (legacy, tactical, strategic) and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work needed to deliver against outcomes.
• The ability to build strong working relationships with peers, stakeholders, and teams across the business.  Able to leverage these relationships to build consensus, drive change, and deliver value.
• Experience of working in a complex change environment which encompasses multiple product and engineering teams, both local and remote, to deliver enterprise-wide applications and features.
• Carrying out product management of APIs, or complex data structures, and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related services.
• Document and explain new requirements to the engineering team, breaking down complex tasks into deliverable chunks.
• Navigate and manage conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence within your team.
• Demonstrate product features to various audiences, both internal and external.

Key Skills & experience relevant for this role

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills
• Use good prioritisation techniques to refine and groom your backlog.
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly.
• Broad knowledge, understanding and experience of current software development methodologies, technologies and processes.
• Great presentation and persuasion skills
• Team player who could work collaboratively with other members of the team.
• Empathy and good listening skills to understand the needs/ pain points of your customers/ stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/ acceptance criteria
• Understanding of User Research/ Design Thinking concepts
• Numerate and confident handling data.

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. 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.