Product Manager - Smartshop Services

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits

Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT

Contract type: Permanent

Business area: Sainsbury's Tech

Closing date: 25 May 2025

Requisition ID: 303966

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 for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions, and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment, and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum, and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities in AI, reusable tech, and more.

Joining Sainsbury's Tech means being part of a 150-year-old retail chain undergoing a transformative journey towards innovation and agility. As a Tech professional, you have the opportunity to contribute to change and push boundaries, investing in creating advanced systems and technologies. With access to vast data from billions of transactions, you will be part of a dynamic environment where solutions are built and implemented rapidly. Your work will impact colleagues and customers, shaping the future of retail technology. Welcome to Sainsbury's Tech, where you can make a meaningful difference.

What you’ll do:

• As the Product Manager of SmartShop Services, you’ll shape the future of our backend, platform, and data outcomes for the Smartshop team.
• You will drive transformations that redefine our architecture and lead to best-in-practice technology.
• Working in agile teams, you’ll partner with in-house engineering and key stakeholders, collaborating to realize your vision.
• You’ll influence roadmaps and lead large-scale initiatives that shape Sainsbury's future.
• You will be a visionary, working closely with stakeholders to craft our technology vision, make data-driven decisions, and own the Smartshop Services roadmap.
• With millions of customers using Smartshop annually, understanding how backend innovations benefit customers is essential.
• You will also analyze technical needs and develop strategies balancing future readiness and stable BAU performance.
• Your creative problem-solving and experimentation mindset will help push boundaries and enhance Smartshop services.

What You Need To Do:

• Partner with engineers and cross-functional teams to redesign backend services, elevating Smartshop.
• Work within a scrum team to develop resilient technology for in-store experiences.
• Prioritize product opportunities considering value delivery, savings, and technical foundations.
• Continuously evaluate products to ensure they work as intended and deliver value.
• Collaborate across Sainsbury's to define strategy and roadmap, balancing short-term needs with long-term scalability and innovation.

How You Will Succeed:

• Work effectively with engineering teams.
• Focus on understanding and exceeding customer needs.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical teams and stakeholders.
• Utilize decision-making tools to prioritize effectively.
• Build roadmaps and articulate product visions using suitable tools.
• Be technically curious, asking questions to drive solutions and translate customer needs into technology.
• Use product metrics to inform decisions and prioritize.
• Understand business viability and articulate benefits.
• Contribute to a positive team culture at Sainsbury’s Tech.

Who you are:

You thrive on innovation and pushing boundaries. Working at Sainsbury's offers a chance to be part of a transformative journey, creating impactful systems and technologies. You will collaborate across teams to shape the technology vision and deliver excellent experiences. With access to extensive data and a culture of learning, Sainsbury's Tech is a vibrant environment where ideas turn into reality quickly. Join us in shaping retail technology's future and be part of Sainsbury's Tech, the home of innovation. We are committed to inclusion and support your development. We celebrate extra efforts and offer flexible working options. Our benefits include colleague discounts, pension schemes, life cover, performance bonuses, holiday allowances, and other perks such as season ticket loans, health plans, and employee assistance programs. We also provide generous leave policies for maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.