Product Manager - Audit, Safe & Legal

About the Store Colleague Experience Team

The Store Colleague Experience product team is a team of Product Managers responsible for managing the development, strategy and vision for some of Tesco’s core products that our 400,000 store colleagues use every day. This includes everything from the customer service desk, to the apps that drive our price routines.

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Have ownership of a Product used to manage Audit, Safe & Legal checks involving multiple internal/ external stakeholders and drive the Product strategy & execution for it
• Engage with my stakeholders to formulate the vision, strategy and long-term roadmap for my product and execute it well by constantly managing my stakeholders expectations, working through dependencies across multiple products/ teams
• Understand key user personas, customers & stakeholders for my product and their pain points really well
• Understand and demonstrate all of the features of my product to different audiences within and outside of my immediate product team
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories, personas, and acceptance tests and help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work/ epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster
• Steer sprint/ release planning sessions by working with my engineering counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort
• Am accountable for the performance/ adoption of my product and work towards increasing it
• Lead discovery work around minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/feature, collaborating with user experience (UX) and engineering teams to prototype and validate the MVP
• 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
• Present to other Tesco Product areas on my Product and its functional/ engineering capabilities
• Effectively presented the vision, roadmap, key KPIs and execution plans (release/ sprint plans) for my product
• Driven experiments against defined hypotheses, created MVPs towards robust data-driven decisions on product improvements and their influence on product performance indicators
• Prioritise coordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Knowledge and experience of product management best practice & methodologies.
• Proven success of having managed a complex product that led to the delivery of significant value to your stakeholders
• Understand User Research/ Design Thinking concepts and applied those for 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.

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work.  These include but aren’t limited to:

• An annual bonus scheme which you can achieve up to 3.5% of base salary
• Colleague Clubcard (including a 2nd card for a family member) after 6 months service with 10% off most purchases at Tesco
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day
• A retirement savings plan - 4%-7.5% contribution rate
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• Buy As You Earn Scheme
• Save As You Earn Scheme
• Deals & Discounts through Tesco including Tesco Mobile & Tesco Bank
• Deals and Discounts through many other external businesses

About Tesco

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.

Joining us means playing a part in defining; building and launching an ambitious roadmap of digital products that could affect the lives of millions of people over the years to come.

If that sounds exciting then we'd love to hear from you.

The position will be based at our Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire campus.