Lead Product Manager - Commercial Product

To transform how we Buy and Manage Products for Customers. Change is underway here at Tesco and the Commercial Product team sits at its heart. Supporting the business to define how our colleagues work with each other and with our partners, ensuring processes across Buy and Manage are simple, standard and effective; we are accountable for the creation of world leading technology Products which embed this best practice alongside world class data science. Together we are empowering our colleagues to deliver relevant, timely, loved, innovative and compliant products to our customers however they choose to shop with us. If you are looking for a Product role where you will lead a team of Product Managers with the opportunity to contribute in a very real way to Tesco’s success, we would love to hear from you!

You will be responsible for reporting to the Head of Product Management for Product Lifecycle, leading a team of talented Product Managers, and being accountable for a set of complex and company strategic UIs and services within the Product portfolio. You will drive product strategy, roadmap and execution for them. You will own the vision & strategy for the exciting Quality area which is the heart of our Magnetic Value pillar. You will be working with the Quality business, Online team and Marketplace and F&F propositions.

• Have accountability for a complex set of UIs and APIs that involve multiple internal/external stakeholders, and drive product strategy, roadmap and execution for that by leading a team of talented Product Managers.
• Understand your business stakeholders and their pain points really well and steer your team in the right direction by putting the best team members in the most value generating products/business priorities.
• Set clear goals and KPIs for your team members and periodically review all the KPIs owned by the team spanning across multiple products and provide feedback on improving those.
• Handle conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented and opinionated team.
• Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working with your Head of Product and other stakeholders and proactively flag any risks or delays in your commitments.
• Contribute in capability and capacity planning to Product Management for your own Product area to ensure capacity to drive work.
• Build and nurture a great team of Product Managers for your Product, based on the business needs, strategic priorities assigned, and level of focus required.
• Carry out people routines for direct reports and develop talented people.
• Identify and remove impediments to ensure your team is successful in delivering the committed deliverables.
• Motivate the team by ensuring they have fulfilling roles, proper rewards and recognition strategies.
• Conduct fair performance appraisals and provide constructive feedback for your team.
• Collaborate with Head of Product to understand future demand and direction of your product.
• Be responsible for achieving or exceeding agreed product KPIs improvements.

You will need:

• Experience in product management of both UIs and APIs and a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related APIs.
• Proven success in line managing a team of product managers and taking multiple ideas from conception to go-live, through standard software product development lifecycle and achieving measurable success across defined KPIs.
• Experience in capacity planning, forecasting and working with senior stakeholders to understand future demands and align allocation/hiring.
• Knowledge of underlying business processes and systems.
• Efficient in stakeholder management and has the ability to steer the team in the right direction by putting the best team members in the most value generating Products/Business priorities.
• Extensive experience with both UX/UI and transactional APIs and service-oriented architecture.
• Technically competent to influence and understand the solution context and approach (legacy, tactical, strategic) and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.

What’s in it for you? We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work.

• 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.

About Us: 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.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We’re committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

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.