Product Manager - Product Data & Article Management in City of London

Please note - This is a 12 month FTC position.

Every week we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. Brilliant customer experiences at this kind of pace require fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers shop with us. In this area of our business, we help to make sure that happens. By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm, our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to make our customers' lives easier. We keep our warehouses and stores operating smoothly around the clock because what’s important to our customers is important to us.

We work with one of the most valuable product data sets in the country, building scalable, high-performing products that underpin critical business operations and enable major strategic change. You'll be joining a team responsible for the Core Capabilities of Commercial Product Data, ensuring that Product Data remains a trusted, scalable and cost-effective business capability. Our platforms and services sit at the heart of the commercial ecosystem, supporting everything from day-to-day trading operations through to large-scale transformation programmes. Different teams across the business rely on these services in different ways, making service reliability, data quality, operational resilience and scalability critical to how the business operates.

This is a highly visible role operating across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Delivery and business teams. You'll balance the needs of today's business with the investments required to build tomorrow's capabilities, ensuring our data services remain reliable, resilient and ready for the future.

More about the role:

• Own end‑to‑end product discovery and delivery across Commercial Product Data initiatives, driving product, data and platform improvements that improve data quality, operational efficiency and business outcomes.
• Define product strategy and roadmaps, balancing immediate trading and compliance needs with longer‑term platform investment.
• Translate business, technical and operational requirements into clear, actionable product and engineering outcomes.
• Lead cross‑functional working groups, aligning product, engineering, architecture, delivery and business stakeholders.
• Make clear prioritisation decisions across competing business, operational and technology demands, focusing teams on the highest‑value outcomes.

More about you:

• Experience working as a Product Manager, ideally within data, platform or enterprise technology domains.
• Strong experience operating products that support critical business processes in complex environments.
• Comfortable working with Engineering, Architecture, Delivery and business stakeholders to shape and deliver solutions.
• Proven ability to prioritise across competing business, operational and technology demands.
• Strong strategic thinking, with the ability to define roadmaps and make value-based prioritisation decisions.
• Able to translate complex technical and business challenges into clear product objectives and actionable plans.
• A collaborative leadership style, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

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

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

Responsibilities:

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.

Qualifications:

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 10% 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, 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.
• 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.

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).