Product Manager - Insights (12 Month Secondment) in Welwyn Garden City

Our vision here at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home, out shopping, on the move, anywhere in the world. We want our customers to be inspired and whatever they are looking for, we’re finding bigger and better ways to provide it. Everything is underpinned by our continuous drive for the best tools and technology to deliver our vision. We’re driving innovation and transforming our Technology to become the world’s leading retailer. We need people who share our ambition to deliver for our customers; passionate and confident people willing to take the initiative and drive us forwards. In return we offer excitement, a great team, an excellent benefit package, and significant career development opportunities. If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you. The position will be based at our Welwyn Garden City office.

About the Capability Team: We aim to provide colleagues with a great experience by providing world class tooling, processes, and advice. We believe in solutions that are either self-service or invisible to the end user - that’s not always easy to achieve, but it’s what we strive for. With over 460,000 colleagues globally, this is an opportunity to make your mark. Our vision is to protect the reputation of Tesco, maximise system availability and enable colleagues to work smarter.

About this role: Our vision is to provide a seamless collaborative experience for all Tesco colleagues globally and enable them to take data driven decisions, enabling them to stay connected, be efficient and add value to our customers. If you’re a Product Manager that’s customer focused, thrives with hard problems, loves a fast-moving environment, and wants to make a real difference to our colleagues across the globe then please get in touch. The ideal candidate will be able to shape the enterprise strategy for our Product delivery and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence and Miro.

You will be responsible for:

• Ownership of a Product involving multiple internal/external stakeholders and drive the Product strategy & execution for it.
• Engaging with stakeholders and Senior Product Manager to formulate the vision, strategy and long-term roadmap and execute it well by constantly managing the stakeholders' expectations, working through dependencies across multiple products/teams.
• Understanding key user personas, customers & stakeholders for the product and their pain points.
• Effectively documenting and explaining new requirements to the engineering team using user stories, personas, and acceptance tests.
• Steering sprint/release planning sessions by working with delivery counterparts to plan sprints/releases that deliver maximum business value with least effort.
• Leading discovery work around minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/feature, collaborating with delivery teams to prototype and validate the MVP.
• Presenting to other Tesco Product areas and its functional/engineering capabilities.
• Driving experiments against defined hypotheses, creating MVPs towards robust data-driven decisions on product improvements and their influence on product performance indicators.
• Prioritising, coordinating and communicating the resolution of live product issues independently.

This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team and delivering value, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

You will need:

• Demonstrated experience of articulating a product strategy in terms of consumer and business value.
• Experience and understanding of agile techniques to deliver world beating products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
• Attitude and aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly.
• Proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypotheses, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions.
• Technical competence to influence and understand the solution context and approach and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested.
• Prioritisation and decision-making skills demonstrating how these have taken into account business priorities, complexity, dependencies and value.

Desirable:

• Experience running and implementing JIRA, Confluence and/or Portfolio Management products across an Enterprise organisation.
• Vendor management experience.

Personal:

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership.
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.

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 (12 months service required at qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 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.

The above information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details.

About Us: You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues. At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support. We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, please let us know.