Group Product Manager- Space, Range, Display and Locations

Job title:

Group Product Manager- Space, Range, Display and Locations

Company

Sainsbury’s

Job description

Job Description:Every week we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. Brilliant customer experiences at this kind of pace, require fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers shop with us. And in this area of our business, we help to make sure that happens.By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm, our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to make our customers lives easier. We keep our warehouses and stores operating smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our customers, is important to us.Reporting into the Senior Head of Product, The Group Product Manager is relentlessly focused on understanding, anticipating and exceeding stakeholder needs for specific products and broader projects that align to long-term business strategy. The Group Product Manager will be accountable for leading a team of Product Managers who champion the long-term vision for their products in line with our over-arching business goals and works horizontally across the immediate team and the broader product and tech function to coordinate and prioritise the diverse requirements of their product that may fall into other delivery areas.The Group Product Manager understands the differing requirements of the colleague, customer, business and Engineering/Architecture and uses this knowledge to ultimately drive the product and their team. This includes engaging in technical discussions and deciphering business value and spotting opportunities. They use product metrics to prioritise their product roadmap effectively and seeks out the data and insight that enables them to make informed decisionsWorking in Agile teams, you’ll build a highly collaborative relationship with your Engineering colleagues and support in defining, delivering and iterating features and finding creative ways to deliver great experiences for our customers. This role also works with multiple 3rd party Tech Vendors and teams.You’ll utilise a variety of techniques to develop your understanding of the tech landscape and customer expectations of technology, using product metrics to prioritise their specific product roadmap effectively and seeking out data and insights to allow you to make informed decisions.More about the roleThe Group Product Manager role in Range, Space, Display & Locations for Food focuses on all the processes, data and technology needed to enable Sainsburys to serve up amazing products to our customers.This role faces into our Commercial, Transformation & Retail stakeholders internally.This an exciting role, in a transformative space with a big programme of change behind it. Products and what we sell is at the heart of Sainsburys and we are on a mission to bring value, quality and innovative food to our customers. This role ensures that our range offer meets out customers expectations regardless of the mission they are on- and this is displayed in the best way in our stores.

• You’ll support end-to-end delivery by maintaining a 1yr+ product roadmap, as well as a prioritised and estimated backlog
• You’ll coordinate and report post-launch evaluation to validate that products work for customers or colleagues as designed and that value is delivered
• Track both effort and value delivery identifying opportunities for cost reduction, using this insight to inform prioritisation of opportunities for the product
• You’ll collaborate with other product teams and 3rd parties to launch new product features
• Help identify necessary and/or desirable third-party technology to evaluate and select vendors Together with technology teams evaluate potential partner relationships
• Monitor relevant industry trends and engage both internal and external teams as appropriate to build shared insight
• Support & develop a team of Senior Product Managers/Product managers.

More about you

• Knowledge and understanding of a retail business and the technology landscape, and how to maximise the value that products can and will add
• Understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices
• Knowledge of product development principles and methodologies
• Ability to translate business goals, business & technology strategy and market knowledge into a product roadmap that prioritises delivery of value and enables future business agility
• Anticipating risks and opportunities, responding to escalations at pace and coaching others to find solutions based on your expertise
• Ability to switch between strategic visioning and getting into the detail, being the authority in all aspects of your product
• Awareness of existing and future stacks/interfaces for the product and how to develop these so they work seamlessly for customers and colleagues
• A high level of team contribution, seek opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus

#LI-HM1Responsibilities:We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.Qualifications:We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new – whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business – and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you’ll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury’s, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We’ve also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You’ll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You’ll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

Expected salary

Location

London

Job date

Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:14:39 GMT

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