Senior Product Manager - Ad Tech in London

Senior Product Manager – Ad Tech

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance.

That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s.

Think about the scale it takes to feed the nation.

The level of data, transactions and variety involved.

Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be.

We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work.

We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP.

So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

12 month FTC position.

Want to solve really interesting and technical problems at huge scale?

Want to learn from the best and be challenged to think differently every day?

Want to work hand in hand with development teams where you drive success and return to the business?

Want the flexibility to work at home and in an office where it helps you meet your work and life commitments?

Read below for your next opportunity....

Responsibilities

• You’ll lead a cross‑functional agile team in partnership with Engineering Managers, to drive third‑party integrations, strategy and roadmap.
• You will work with the team to shape which technologies we use and how best to deliver them to deliver on our strategy.
• You will research and evaluate new technology and/or solutions to benefit monetisation.

You will explore the best approaches for our evolving capabilities, including where and how to leverage Artificial Intelligence.

• You’ll be technically minded; able to understand solutions at a level where you can work in depth with our Solutions Architects and Engineering team, but explain them to any stakeholder regardless of their technical prowess.
• You’ll work with a large variety of stakeholders to steer the direction of development, interacting frequently with senior leaders and working closely with a range of teams and third parties.
• You’ll track both effort and value delivery, identifying opportunities for cost reduction and use this insight to inform prioritisation.
• You’ll be responsible for coaching and mentoring other team members to enable them to grow and reach their full potential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in the Product Management discipline covering Mar Tech or digital product, market & customer research, owning roadmap, and delivery.
• Technically minded, able to get into the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a solution to understand how it works and whether it best meets our technical needs.
• Strong analytical skills to define product metrics and analyse performance.
• Experience in managing cross‑functional team, working with data scientists and data engineering.
• Possess knowledge and understanding of a retail business and technology landscape, and how to maximise the value that data products can and will add.
• Clear understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
• Judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace – comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and helping drive toward clarity.
• An ability to creatively solve problems and enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology.
• 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

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

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whatever you are and wherever you work.

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