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Staff Product ManagerSainsbury's
26 days ago
  • LevelMid Level
  • ProfessionsProduct Manager, Product Development Manager, Data Analyst
  • TypeFull Time
  • LocationLondon, United Kingdom

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Description

Closing Date: 06-Nov-2024

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.
We’re a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an ever-evolving set of digital platforms. All this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth, and complexity of data that few can match – we don’t think we’re exaggerating when we say we have the most exciting data set in the country. And from the insights gained, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that give our customers an amazing shopping experience.
The customer is at the heart of everything we do, which is why we have put them at the centre of our vision, to serve and help more customers, more of the time. We do not distinguish between tech and the business, we are one team, one organisation, driving brilliant experiences across our brands.
We operate in an inclusive, agile environment. You’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges in a community of inspired and multi-disciplined colleagues who are empowered to solve hard problems.
As Staff Product Manager in Integrations, you’ll be focused on working with both our vertical domain of Integrations and Batch but also across our whole business to drive alignment and adoption of our platforms, capabilities and standards. As an organisation investing in large-scale transformation initiatives now is the perfect time to ensure we’re ready for growing our organisation.
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.
Specifically focusing on this role:
Working in close collaboration with engineering and architecture you’ll work to align on our principles regarding domain north star visions to those of a modern technology divisions approach to integrations. This will include identifying ways that we can make our engineering community work smarter and faster, increase the maturity and adoption of our key strategic data services and align with key domain focussed teams on how we ensure Sainsbury’s has the scale and stability to achieve our Next Level strategy.
Working with peers across key domains, such as Commercial and Supply Chain to name just two, you’ll ensure that we are modernising our integration landscape using centralised platforms that allow federated teams to move faster whilst maintaining our principles around data protection, re-usability and alignment with a strategic mindset.
You’ll also consider what our wider eco-system around data needs to include, working with our Data Platforms team to find opportunities across our real-time operational data and reporting data landscapes for joint initiatives such as data observability, lineage, integrity and stability.
What you need to do
As a Staff Product Manager, you will:
  • Deliver products with the biggest budgets that bring significant value back to the business aligned to corporate strategic pillars.
  • Be accountable for developing the vision, strategy, roadmap and backlog for your product, own the customer and business value, and make effective prioritisation choices to deliver maximum value and return on capital, ensuring we meet our corporate plan commitments.
  • Be accountable for end-to-end delivery in product management, ensuring activity is prioritised in line with the agreed goals, outcomes, and metrics.
  • Be comfortable discussing technical details of potential solutions and have a familiarity with technologies such as Kafka or similar real-time event streaming as well as APIs
  • Be expected to work collaboratively with teams from across multiple different tech domains to achieve our desired outcomes
  • Champion our principles – ensuring the journey, destination and decisions we make regarding Integrations align to our north start strategy and remove constraints for federated engineering teams to deliver greater value at pace.
  • Build highly collaborative relationship with senior engineering, architecture and product to successfully navigate significant integration complexity or decisioning as you develop your product(s).
  • Apply insight, data, research, technical product knowledge, to ensure you and our wider team are focused on making the biggest difference for customers and the business.
  • Manage levels of risk to minimise vulnerabilities and prioritising development by working with complex and sensitive information.
  • Champion and prioritise tech standards alongside product features in your and wider team’s roadmaps explaining the merits to stakeholders.
  • Advocate for agile software development practices with business stakeholders ensuring a good understanding of iterative value delivery.
  • Monitor relevant industry trends keeping personal knowledge up to date with the latest developments and innovations pertinent to modern integrations and operational data flows. Build confidence as the subject matter expert for your product, helping to guide future investment.
  • Work collaboratively with engineering teams providing expertise to evaluate potential partner relationships; identifying necessary and/or desirable third-party technology to evaluate and select vendors.
  • Maintain a good level of awareness, interest and understanding of the existing and stacks/interfaces for your product and how to develop these so they work seamlessly for customers and colleagues
What you need to know
  • Senior level product management processes
  • Proven track record of leading delivery of complex technology led change in cross-functional environments; you have shipped products at scale that customers and colleagues love.
  • Experience with integration technologies
  • Strong communication and influencing skills
  • Working knowledge of technology relevant to retail businesses
  • Solid understanding of commercial landscape
What you need to show
  • Judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace, including comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and help drive toward clarity
  • Passion for seeking value and helping motivate and support technology teams
  • Strong communication and influencing skills, particularly at senior levels
  • Creative problem solving, enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology
  • Anticipating risks and opportunities, responding to escalations at pace and supporting to find solutions
  • A high level of team contribution, seek opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus, role model effective collaboration
  • Embrace shared responsibility and role model effective collaboration
  • Influencing iterative decision making, including managing ambiguity
What decisions I can make
  • All decisions related to delivering the roadmap for your product(s)
  • Prioritisation and significant value return across your product area with multi-million-pound investment.
  • Driving the future direction of our integration landscape across the entire enterprise
Support we will provide
  • Access to personal development tools including industry leader Bitesize talks, online self-development tools, and internal mentoring/coaching
  • Internal product expertise and co-learning opportunities within a highly collaborative environment
  • Opportunities to attend external events
  • Product Competency Framework and Community of Practice
  • Flexible ‘smart working’ approach to how and where you complete your work
  • An environment that fosters and supports progression within our organisation whether that be horizontally or vertically
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).

Skills Required

  • Product
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication Skills

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