Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Hybrid Full-Time Permanent Apply by 19-Nov-2025
About the role
Tesco are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead Network Optimisation initiatives. Network Optimisation focusses on ensuring we are serving the right customers and stores, with the right products from the right points in our fulfilment network. You will be responsible for building AI driven tools and experiences to support analysts and operations colleagues maximise capacity, minimise costs and simplify implementing changes. This role is ideal for individuals with experience in early-stage product development, strong technical acumen, and proven ability to manage complex stakeholder landscapes.
The Network optimisation team builds the tools which support teams of analysts and operations colleagues who decide and implement the optimal configuration of our customer fulfilment and distribution networks. The changes they make influence everything from where we locate our distribution centres, to how many vans are needed on a given shift.
As a Senior Product Manager in this role you will collaborate closely with Data Science, your engineering team, programme management, UX and other teams across technology to deliver efficiency and convenient delivery options for Tesco and its customers.
You will aim to embody what good looks like, coaching, mentoring and supporting other product managers to do their best work.
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 6 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
- Product Strategy & Roadmap
Define and own the vision for network optimisation products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and scalability requirements. - Discovery & Delivery
Lead both discovery and delivery phases for optimisation-focused initiatives, validating hypotheses and driving measurable outcomes. - Stakeholder Engagement
Build strong relationships across technical and business teams, facilitating workshops and ensuring shared understanding of priorities. - Influence & Collaborate
Deliver through other teams by influencing their priorities and shaping their roadmaps to align with network optimisation goals. - Agile Leadership
Manage backlog prioritisation, run agile ceremonies, and ensure timely delivery of high-impact features.
You will need
- Proven experience in early-stage product development and scaling solutions.
- Able to scale network optimisation capabilities from prototypes to production with a strong ability to evaluate alternative deployment options.
- Strong understanding of data science tools and their application in optimisation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience working with Product Management teams that build both user interfaces and APIs
- Analytical mindset with ability to use data to guide decisions.
- Experienced in backlog prioritisation and managing complex dependencies.
- Experience leading workshops and presentations to varied audiences.
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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.