Product Manager – Data & AI

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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 Tesco London office with the expectation to regularly visit the Welwyn Garden City office.

As a Product manager – Data & AI, you are responsible for a set of complex and company strategic products and will drive product vision, strategy and execution.

This role will be based within the Data Enabler product team and will focus on addressing the needs of data consumers and decision makers working across Tesco stores and business operations. Your products will enable 1000s of users to understand the data powering Tesco’s business and uncover new insights: improving the speed and quality of decision making throughout the organisation. Responsibilities include:

• Ownership of a product domain within a wider portfolio and involving multiple internal/external stakeholders to drive the Product strategy and execution for that area
• Formulate the vision, strategy and roadmap (direction, outcomes, product mix, new products, retirement of old products), and work with others in aligning the strategic priorities, dependencies and roadmap across the product portfolio
• Collaborate with 3^rd parties and external partners to deliver best-in-class solutions for users
• Work closely with Service and Engineering teams to ensure a reliable user experience
• Understand pain points and external market/trends related to Data Consumption and explore new product opportunities
• Plan and co-ordinate significant product development efforts following agile best practices
• Communicate user needs and business outcomes to the engineering team at the Epic level and support breaking down complex work
• Deeply understand your user personas, stakeholders and the wider organisation
• Accountable for the impact of the product and work towards achieving measurable outcomes using OKRs
• Lead continuous discovery for new and existing products/features, collaborating with engineering teams to experiment and validate hypothesis
• Provide leadership and direction to cross functional team(s) on priorities
• Provide support and coaching across the product community and contribute to continuous improvement of product management practices

• Product management of complex technology products, and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries across a large organisation
• Experience building products and platforms in coordination with data science, engineering, analysts and business teams
• Background in Analytics with experience of Data Visualisation preferred
• Understanding of opportunities to leverage AI in your products
• A methodical/analytical approach and great problem-solving skills
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new a product area/domain quickly
• Team player who could work collaboratively with other members of the team and different teams
• Ownership, responsiveness and commitment towards assigned work
• Strong decision making and prioritization skills, guided by data, especially when multiple trade-offs are involved and fast-paced decisions are required
• Empathy and good listening skills to understand the needs/ pain points of your customers/ stakeholders
• Strong communicator with ability to lead presentations/workshops with a variety of stakeholders to achieve a desired outcome

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We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
• Private medical insurance
• Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
• 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
• A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
• Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
• Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click Here to read more about the full range of benefits we have available for our colleagues

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.