Product Operations Manager - Planning

You'll be joining Agile Product & Operations – a team charged with driving excellence in Technology, by building communities, developing standard process and simplifying how we work. Where we currently have 4 Product Ops roles in total, this role is has an emphasis on planning, improving the value of key Product Ops processes across multiple Product functions.

You'll collaborate closely with the your Product Ops counterparts, driving efficiency and crafting the conditions for Product Management teams to do their best work. This role will be the first role of its kind – a fantastic opportunity to innovate and demonstrate the impact of Product Ops.

• Leading our large-scale quarterly planning process, creating focus and alignment for over 90 tech teams. This includes crafting and presenting timelines, driving engagement, coordinating sessions with a broad range of business partners, tracking actions, analysing the data and creating the plans themselves.
• Managing the cyclical assessments of Product teams' health, practice maturity and/or skills, preparing relevant materials and leading the analysis.
• Continually seek out opportunities to optimise the efficiency and engagement of Product Ops processes, by leaning on agile principles: sourcing regular feedback and running iterative experiments.
• Onboarding new joiners to ensure all colleagues have a detailed understanding of the Product Ops processes and can participate effectively.
• Collaborating with colleagues in the Agile Product & Operations Team in maturing Ops practice and coordinating cross-functional events.
• Developing a business partner map and owning positive relationships with a variety of business partners of varying levels of seniority.
• Maintaining the departmental calendar, identifying relevant events to include and highlighting risks of clashes.
• Become a trusted and reliable partner to multidisciplinary business partners.

• 2+ years with significant Project Management responsibilities e.g. Operations, Project Management, Programme Management, Delivery Management, Change Management etc - Experience working independently in a fast-paced environment, navigating complexity to deliver valuable outcomes.
• Effectively working with a broad range of stakeholders, including senior stakeholders.
• Experience with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Aha! and Miro.
• Knowledge Agile and Product Management concepts / principles / practices.

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work!  These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (and bank holidays)
• Great colleague discounts and deals, saving you money on everyday purchases, utility bills for the home and more
• Retirement savings plan – save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Buy as you earn and Save as you earn share schemes
• Opportunities to get on – take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training to help you achieve the career you want

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 a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you.  Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we are moving to a more blended working week – combining office and remote working.  Our offices continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.  Talk to us about how this can work for you.

Note: Should you be successful in your application, your employment will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.