Job Title: Product Manager - Data
About Tesco
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 Bengaluru campus.
About Data
Data Product team builds and manages Tesco’s big data and analytical data platforms. They work across all the business domains - Customer, Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial etc and are responsible to ensure core data availability on the platform for data science, analytics and reporting requirements.
The Role - Product Manager
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:
As a Product manager - Data, you are responsible for a set of complex and company strategic products within data portfolio and would drive product strategy, roadmap and execution for those.
• Have ownership of a data domain or data product within a data portfolio involving multiple internal/ external stakeholders and drive the Product strategy and execution for that area
• Ability of formulating the vision, strategy and roadmap for the set of product you co-own in the portfolio (product mix, new products, retirement of old products), and work with others in aligning the strategic priorities, dependencies and roadmap across the product portfolio
• Plan and co-ordinate significant product efforts that have dependencies on multiple product and engineering teams
• Understand key user personas, customers & stakeholders for the product and their pain points well
• Effectively document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories, personas, and acceptance tests and help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work/ epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster
• Responsible for the performance/ adoption of the product and work towards achieving the Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs)
• Identify and drive improvements to the way in which product performance and service levels are measured to ensure product quality, reliability and security
• Facilitate discovery work around a minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/ feature, collaborating with engineering teams to prototype and validate a MVP
• Help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work/ epic into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster
• Partner with technology colleagues to understand technical debt, platform improvements and engineering considerations,helping balance short-term delivery with long-term product health
• Are accountable for the performance/ adoption of my product and work towards increasing it
Key Skills and Experience
You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:
• Carrying out product management of complex products, and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries
• Experience delivering data products for a large organisation in coordination with the engineering, analysts and business functions teams
• A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly
• Team player who could work collaboratively with other members of the team
• Ownership, responsiveness and commitment towards assigned work
• Strong decision making and prioritization skills, especially when multiple trade-offs are involved and faster decision are required
• Empathy and good listening skills to understand the needs/ pain points of your customers/ stakeholders
• Excellent facilitation to effectively facilitate requirement gathering/elicitation sessions with senior business leaders/ stakeholders
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/ acceptance criterions
Personal
• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation
One of the world’s largest retailers of consumer goods from food to fashion. Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day in our stores and online is at the heart of everything we do.
Founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen using the £30 he received on leaving the Royal Flying Corp, we’ve come a long way from his small market stall in East London. Today over 400,000 colleagues work across our stores, office, distribution and customer engagement centres in the UK, Europe and Asia.
Share our passion for the people, products and places that make us great, and we can offer the right support to develop your skills. If you’re looking for the perfect work-life balance, a collaborative culture and flexible ways of working, find your opportunity to get on at www.tesco-careers.com
