Lead Product Manager - Data & AI in Welwyn Garden City

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our team and play a leading role in defining, building and launching Store data products that have a real impact on Tesco business and colleagues. As a Lead Product Manager, you will evolve and drive the product vision, strategy and delivery of Store Data Products that empower Tesco colleagues to deliver an exceptional shopping experience. You will define the product roadmap, prioritise features and ensure alignment with business objectives and user needs. Working closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, analytics, stores and external partners, you will translate complex business challenges to improve store efficiency and colleague productivity. You will champion innovation, leverage store data and advanced analytics and ensure products deliver measurable impact on operational performance and colleague experience. This is a hybrid role with the expectation of being based at our London and Welwyn Garden City offices 3 days a week.

Product Strategy and Delivery

• Define and own the product vision and roadmap for Store Data Products, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer experience objectives.
• Prioritise work and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders to maximise business value.
• Translate complex business challenges into innovative, data-driven solutions that improve store efficiency and colleague productivity.
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to engineering teams using user stories with acceptance criteria and help break down complex work into smaller, deliverable chunks for faster delivery.
• Steer sprint and release planning sessions with engineering counterparts to plan iterations that deliver maximum business value with minimal effort.
• Prioritise, coordinate, and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Build and nurture a high-performing team of Product Managers based on business needs and strategic priorities.
• Empower and develop your team to continually deliver value, fostering a culture of inclusion, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and targeted upskilling initiatives to develop expertise in product management, data analytics, and emerging technologies.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with engineering, analytics, store operations and external vendors to deliver high quality, scalable data products.
• Drive acceptance and adoption of ideas and improvements with product teams and engineering stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and direction to cross-functional teams on short term tasks and mid/long term priorities.
• Identify and remove challenges faced by the team by working with your Head of Product and other stakeholders, proactively flagging risks or delays.

Technical and Data Expertise

• Leverage store data, advanced analytics and emerging technologies to shape product capabilities.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to ensure robust data pipelines, governance and compliance.
• Explore opportunities to integrate AI and machine learning into Store Data Products for predictive insights and automation.

Governance and Compliance

• Ensure data products adhere to governance, security and ethical standards.
• Promote data quality, discoverability, and compliance across all product initiatives.

Additional Responsibilities

• Evolve/set vision and strategy for product areas, develop and baseline product OKRs.
• Appraise and analyse customer research results to influence product outcomes and strategic goals.
• Understand how diverse personas or customer groups perceive, interpret and experience products in different ways.
• Apply UX/UI disciplines and principles to product design, ensuring intuitive and customer-friendly interaction.
• Develop hypothesis statements and collaborate with engineers to set up and execute experiments.
• Understand AI productivity technology systems and monitor health metrics.
• Engage in market research, leveraging insights to shape product vision and strategic direction aligned with business, technology goals and customer expectations.
• Utilise various data types appropriately, knowing when to apply quantitative and/or qualitative data.
• Apply knowledge of the Product Management lifecycle, delivery processes, and Agile principles to discover, design, define, develop and deliver incremental opportunities that drive growth and value.

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet. We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We’re committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here. We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.