Product Manager - Marketing Platform & Capabilities

About The Marketing Platform & Capabilities Team

The marketing platform and capabilities team is a team of Product Management specialists responsible for enabling a customer centric approach to our marketing, through the building or procurement of a world class marketing technology stack, with new technologies when required, allowing multichannel optimisation for each customer and delivery from a single data set.

The Role – Product Manager – Marketing Platform & Capabilities

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 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 delivery 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 delivery counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort
• Accountability 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 delivery teams to prototype and validate the MVP
• Provide leadership and direction to cross functional team (s) on short-term tasks/ near-term priorities
• Monitor industry best practice and local / overseas market trends
• Drive the acceptance and adoption of ideas and improvements with product and delivery stakeholders

Key Skills and Experience

You’ll need to have 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
• Thinking at a conceptual level across a number of platforms.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you must be able to articulate complex concepts to a diverse audience.
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly.
• Having proven success in working on unstructured problems, defining hypothesis, 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
• Prioritising and decision making skills by and have made good decisions/ judgements around business priorities and resource allocation.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and experience of one or more of:
  • Product management best practice & methodologies
  • Retail industry
  • Data querying and manipulation
  • Relational Databases
  • SQL

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 Digital Innovation Centre in Farringdon, London[MK1] .& Welwyn Garden City Head Office.