Group Product Manager - Integration Platforms in London

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.

In a nutshell, we’re a multi-channel business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. Across our entire technology estate we are delivering exciting outcomes that enrich the experience of our customers and colleagues. The customer is at the heart of everything we do, which is why we have put them at the centre of our vision, to serve and help more customers, more of the time. We do not distinguish between tech and the business, we are one team, one organisation, driving brilliant experiences across our brands.

We operate in an inclusive, agile environment. You’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges in a community of inspired and multi-disciplined colleagues who are empowered to solve hard problems.

Specifically focusing on this role:

• As part of a Product team and working in close collaboration with delivery, engineering and architecture you’ll focus on providing consistent and efficient integration and technology platforms to our engineering community. This includes ownership directly or through direct reports for real-time event platforms, standardised common integration build capabilities, as well as API gateways and discoverability.
• You’ll be part of a wider Integration Factory Product team embedded within our Tech Platforms pillar, with a reach across all of our Sainsbury’s Tech colleagues in all domains.

What you need to do:

• As a Group Product Manager, you will deliver value through products that make a fundamental difference to our strategy and ambitions through collaboration and adoption of frameworks that enshrine trust in our data.
• Lead other Product managers to ensure they deliver maximum value and alignment to the needs of our primary internal customers.
• Be accountable for developing the vision, strategy, roadmap and backlog for your product, own the customer and business value, and make effective prioritisation choices to deliver maximum value and return on capital, ensuring we meet our corporate plan commitments.
• Be comfortable discussing technical details sufficiently to understand our internal customers' problem statements.
• Regularly work with teams from across domains to understand our key end-to-end data processes to prioritise where the greatest opportunities and needs exist.
• Champion our principles – ensuring the journey, destination and decisions we make regarding Integrations align to our north star strategy and remove constraints for federated engineering teams to deliver greater value at pace.
• Monitor relevant industry trends keeping personal knowledge up to date with the latest developments and innovations pertinent to modern integrations and operational data flows. Build confidence as the subject matter expert for your product, helping to guide future investment.

Who we are looking for:

• A proven track record of leading delivery of complex technology led change in cross-functional environments; you have shipped products at scale that customers and colleagues love.
• Experience with integration technologies or management of internal technology platforms.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, particularly at senior levels.
• Judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace, including comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and help drive toward clarity.
• Motivating and influencing transformational change.
• Creative problem solving, enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology.
• A high level of team contribution, seek opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus, role model effective collaboration.

Support we will provide:

• An environment that fosters and supports progression within our organisation whether that be horizontally or vertically.
• Access to personal development tools including industry leader Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, and internal mentoring/coaching.
• Internal product expertise and co-learning opportunities within a highly collaborative environment.
• Opportunities to attend external events.
• Product Competency Framework and Community of Practice.
• Flexible ‘smart working’ approach to how and where you complete your work.

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. 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.