Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Full-Time Apply by 30-May-2025
About the role
e have an amazing opportunity for a Product Manager to join the Tesco Store Stock and Shelf Edge Management Product Team, part of the wider Stores Technology Team. Our mission is to transform how Tesco Group manages all aspects of its Store Stock Management technology and processes, through colleague facing tools and services.
Reporting to the Lead Product Manager, you will work alongside other Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Data Analysts and Technical Programme Managers, to help define the vision and strategy. This role will cover a number of areas including how store stock data is collated, managed and shared across our enterprise platforms to provide accurate inventory and product data. This is in addition to the transformation of how stock is managed through Tesco stores in the future.
We are looking for a driven individual who can demonstrate a passion for solving problems, working collaboratively, and embracing technology and change in what is an exciting and broad area. This is a great opportunity to join a team focused on the development of the candidate to learn best practice of Product Management and fulfil their potential!
What is in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- 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 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
- 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
You will be responsible for
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;
• Evolve the product roadmap involving writing user stories, managing the backlog and priorities.
• Understand and partner with multiple internal/ external stakeholders in line with the wider business and product strategy.
• Understand key user personas, customers and stakeholders for the product and their pain points.
• Work alongside research, design, analytics, and engineering teams to design and develop solutions to solve real business needs.
• Understand and demonstrate all of the features of the product to different audiences both within and outside of the immediate product team.
• Prioritise work and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders, and provide leadership and direction to cross-functional teams on the shorter-term priorities.
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories, personas, and acceptance tests. Help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work / epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster.
• Drive the acceptance and adoption of ideas and improvements with product teams and engineering stakeholders.
• Be accountable for the performance / adoption of the product and work towards achieving the outcomes and key results (OKRs).
• Manage live product issues through coordination and communication to prioritise effectively.
• Monitor competitor activity and market trends.
You will need
- Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies, especially an understanding of how to create and use a product vision and strategy to align with teams and stakeholders around outcomes and key results.
- Experience of working in a complex change environment which encompasses multiple product and engineering teams, both local and remote, to deliver enterprise-wide applications and features.
- An understanding of key UX/UI principles, and knowledge of how to apply these, including research methods and experimentation of ideas and hypotheses.
- Experience of creating insights from customer and market research to influence the strategic direction and product roadmap Including, how various personas perceive, understand and experience the product in different ways.
- An understanding of the Product Management Lifecycle, including the product delivery process and agile practices to discover, design, define, develop and deliver small increments of the most important opportunities, that will drive growth and value for a product.
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of working in a store environment and /or store inventory management and maintenance
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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.