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About The Role
As Product Manager for Quality within Commercial Product, you will play a pivotal role in helping Tesco achieve its ambition to be the UK’s leading full‑line retailer for quality perception by 2028/29.
You’ll be part of a team at the forefront of using data, intelligence and AI to help the business make better decisions and take smarter actions, ensuring our products in store consistently meet high quality standards and leave customers happier after every shop.
You will own the roadmap for myProduct: Quality, shaping how we deliver increasingly valuable insight and recommendations that support colleagues across head office, depots and stores.
Reporting to the Lead Product Manager, the successful candidate will be passionate about driving forwards the Product’s strategy, roadmap and execution for Quality to have real business impact.
About Commercial Product
At Tesco, significant changes are underway to continue to grow our business, and our Commercial Product team is at the heart of this transformation. We are redefining how colleagues collaborate and interact with partners to ensure processes across buying and managing products are simple, standard, and effective.
We are accountable for creating world‑leading technology products that embed best practices and leverage advanced AI and ML capabilities to unlock solutions to complex business challenges.
Joining our team of Product, Programme and Change Managers you will have the opportunity to contribute in a very real way to Tesco’s success.
What is in it for you
- 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 (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, and 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
Responsibilities
- Build strong relationships with internal/external stakeholders and drive the product strategy and execution.
- Engage with stakeholders to formulate the vision, strategy and long‑term roadmap for your product and execute it well by constantly managing stakeholder expectations and working through dependencies across multiple products/teams.
- Understand key user personas, customers & stakeholders for your product and their pain points.
- Demonstrate and communicate all of the features of your product to different audiences within and outside of your immediate product team.
- Effectively present the vision, roadmap, KPIs and execution plans (release/sprint plans) for your product.
- Document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories, personas, and acceptance tests and help the team break down a complex piece of work/epic into smaller, deliverable chunks that can be delivered faster.
- Steer sprint/release planning sessions by working with engineering counterparts to plan sprints/releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort.
- Be accountable for the performance and adoption of your product and work towards increasing it.
- Lead discovery work for any new product/feature, collaborating with UX and engineering teams to prototype and validate the response to the business problem, ensuring decisions are data driven and measured against agreed KPIs.
- Provide leadership and direction to cross‑functional team(s) on short‑term tasks/near‑term priorities.
- Monitor competitor activity and overseas market trends.
- Drive the acceptance and adoption of ideas and improvements with product and engineering stakeholders.
- Provide support and coaching to junior Product Managers as well as peers.
- Prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently.
- Handle conflicting priorities, communicate clearly and drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong, talented team.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
- Great presentation & influencing skills.
- This job suits a team player who enjoys and is inspired by working collaboratively with other members of the team and wider stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Product management best practice & methodologies.
- Proven success of having managed a complex product that led to the delivery of significant value to stakeholders.
- Ownership of a product involving multiple internal/external stakeholders and drive the product strategy & execution for it.
- Demonstrable understanding of User Research / Design Thinking concepts in your product work.
- Good knowledge in the use of tools & techniques for backlog prioritisation, managing dependencies, and for gaining insights using available data points.
- Broad knowledge and understanding of the technologies relevant to product management.
- Knowledge and experience of software development methodologies and processes.
- A methodical and analytical approach, great problem‑solving skills and the ability to provide logical answers to complex problems.
- Prioritisation techniques to refine & groom your feature backlog regularly.
- Attitude and aptitude to learn a new product area/domain quickly.
- Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working with your Lead Product Manager and other stakeholders, and proactively flag any risks or delays in your commitments.
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
- Great presentation & influencing skills.
About Us
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.
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