Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Hybrid Full-Time Apply by 19-Jun-2025
About the role
As Product Manager for Hive Optimiser, you will own and deliver its roadmap. Hive is Tesco’s scheduling engine, powering millions of deliveries each year from suppliers to depots to stores. Hive Optimiser is a complex set of algorithms that run in stages to produce optimal transport schedules. It works closely with Hive Controller, which is used by transport planners to manage fleet and driver resources, and the Group Routing Platform, which provides compliant routing with accurate road and location data.
You will work with engineering, data science, programme, and business stakeholders to define and deliver a prioritised roadmap that saves Tesco, and ultimately the customer, money. Every little helps.
Your focus is on driving efficiency, simplifying the experience for operations teams, and enabling smarter decisions through data and algorithms.
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
- Owning the roadmap and vision for Hive Optimiser.
- Engaging with stakeholders across Distribution to shape the vision, strategy, and long-term roadmap.
- Delivering consistently by managing dependencies and setting clear expectations.
- Defining and tracking product outcomes. Responding to outcomes and celebrating successes.
- Presenting the vision, strategy, roadmap, outcomes, and delivery plans clearly.
- Collaborating and workshopping to ensure shared understanding of users and their pain points.
- Managing the backlog, running agile ceremonies, and communicating value delivered.
- Writing clear user stories and supporting efficient delivery.
- Handling live product issues independently and communicating resolutions.
- Partnering with Data Science to test and implement new optimisation features.
- Balancing functionality, non-functional requirements, technical debt, and excellence.
- Championing Hive Optimiser with passion and clarity.
- Working with peripheral teams on multi-year strategy.
- Coordinating with third parties and external partners to integrate solutions.
- Supporting the wider product community by sharing best practices and coaching team members.
- Leading continuous product discovery to test and validate hypotheses.
You will need
- Strong grasp of product management and agile best practices..
- Experienced in backlog prioritisation and managing complex dependencies.
- Confident in using data and insights to guide decisions.
- Experience leading workshops and presentations to varied audiences.
- Methodical and analytical in approach to product delivery.
- Familiar with software development, preferably optimisation or machine learning.
- Skilled in continuous discovery. Able to run experiments and present findings.
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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.