Lead Product Manager
- Full-time
- Technology CF Job Family: Product
- Group Function: Tesco Technology
Company Description
Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
Tesco Technology consists of people from a number of different backgrounds, but having a common purpose to serve our shoppers a little better every day with our retail technological solutions. We shared a common interest in harnessing innovations in technology to enhance their shopping experience at Tesco stores. Whether making products, software or systems, our teams focuses on various aspects from taking strategic ownership of the architecture to delivering technological solutions such as design, testing, deployment, infrastructure, operation and security of the systems to ensure agile, smooth and safe operations. These help us to deliver the maximum business impact. Teams refine their internal processes to best fit their own needs, working to build core capabilities in application and services. We collaborate globally across teams to build end-to-end customer-facing solutions, as well as to share knowledge, experience, tools and techniques.
Job Description
Job Title: Lead Product Manager – Price & Promotions Setup
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 Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire campus.
About Price APIs
Price APIs handle pricing of customer baskets price optimization offers and promotions online and across 1000s of stores and online. They are tightly integrated into our colleague and customer journeys and a vital part of Tesco’s Technology infrastructure.
The Role – Lead Product Manager (Price & Promotion Setup APIs)
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:
Reporting to the Head of Product Management for Price Promotion and Stored Value you lead a team of talented Product Managers and are accountable for a set of complex and company strategic services within the Products portfolio and would drive product strategy roadmap and execution for them.
A master practitioner of Product Management you are responsible for ensuring that your team contains the product management resources and skills required to ensure you can successfully execute the strategy and roadmap for your portfolio of products.
• Have accountability for a complex set of APIs that involve multiple internal/external stakeholders and drive product strategy roadmap and execution for that by leading a team of talented Product Managers
• Understand your business stakeholders and their pain points really well and steer your team in the right direction by putting the best team members in the most value generating products/ business priorities
• Set clear goals and KPIs for your team members and periodically review all the KPIs owned by the team spanning across multiple products and provide feedback on improving those
• Handle conflicting priorities well communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong talented and opinionated team
• Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working with your Head of Product and other stakeholders and proactively flag any risks or delays in your commitments
• Contribute in capability and capacity planning to Product Management for your own Product area to ensure capacity to drive work
• Build and nurture a great team of Product Managers for your Product based on the business needs strategic priorities assigned and level of focus required
• Carry out people routines for direct reports and develop talented people
• Identify and remove impediments to ensure your team is successful in delivering the committed deliverables
• Motivate the team by ensuring they have fulfilling roles proper rewards and recognition strategies
• Conduct fair performance appraisals and provide constructive feedback for your team
• Collaborate with Head of Product to understand future demand and direction of your product
• Be responsible for achieving or exceeding agreed product KPIs improvements across all the products owned/ managed by your team
Key Skills and Experience
You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:
•Carrying out product management of APIs and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related APIs
•Have proven success in leading a team of highly talented and opinionated product managers and taken multiple ideas from conception to go-live through standard software product development lifecycle and got measurable success across defined KPIs
•Experienced in capacity planning forecasting and working with senior stakeholders to understand future demands and align allocation/ hiring
•Knowledge of Retail Operations Pricing Promotions Price Optimisation and Offers as concepts embedded in APIs and realized to customers and colleagues via front end apps that utilise them is beneficial.
•Efficient in stakeholder management and has ability to steer the team in the right direction by putting best team members in the most value generating Products/ Business priorities
•Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical experience
•Extensive experience with transactional APIs and service-oriented architecture. Technically competent to influence and understand the solution context and approach (legacy tactical strategic) and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested
•Understands the impact technical debt is causing and the value Tech upgrades can bring in and can hold the objective conversations with your technology counterparts to prioritize it during any sprint
•Have great prioritization and decision making skills and have made good decisions/ judgements around business priorities and resource allocation etc
•Experience in conducting fair appraisals and handling conflicts
•Experience in building/ hiring grooming a team of Product Managers
•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.
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
•Build & nurture a great team of APMs PMs for your product portfolio
Tesco Document Title
Date
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 Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire campus.
About Price APIs
Price APIs handle pricing of customer baskets price optimization offers and promotions online and across 1000s of stores and online. They are tightly integrated into our colleague and customer journeys and a vital part of Tesco’s Technology infrastructure.
The Role – Lead Product Manager (Price & Promotion Setup APIs)
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:
Reporting to the Head of Product Management for Price Promotion and Stored Value you lead a team of talented Product Managers and are accountable for a set of complex and company strategic services within the Products portfolio and would drive product strategy roadmap and execution for them.
A master practitioner of Product Management you are responsible for ensuring that your team contains the product management resources and skills required to ensure you can successfully execute the strategy and roadmap for your portfolio of products.
• Have accountability for a complex set of APIs that involve multiple internal/external stakeholders and drive product strategy roadmap and execution for that by leading a team of talented Product Managers
• Understand your business stakeholders and their pain points really well and steer your team in the right direction by putting the best team members in the most value generating products/ business priorities
• Set clear goals and KPIs for your team members and periodically review all the KPIs owned by the team spanning across multiple products and provide feedback on improving those
• Handle conflicting priorities well communicate clearly and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong talented and opinionated team
• Identify and remove impediments faced by the team by working with your Head of Product and other stakeholders and proactively flag any risks or delays in your commitments
• Contribute in capability and capacity planning to Product Management for your own Product area to ensure capacity to drive work
• Build and nurture a great team of Product Managers for your Product based on the business needs strategic priorities assigned and level of focus required
• Carry out people routines for direct reports and develop talented people
• Identify and remove impediments to ensure your team is successful in delivering the committed deliverables
• Motivate the team by ensuring they have fulfilling roles proper rewards and recognition strategies
• Conduct fair performance appraisals and provide constructive feedback for your team
• Collaborate with Head of Product to understand future demand and direction of your product
• Be responsible for achieving or exceeding agreed product KPIs improvements across all the products owned/ managed by your team
Key Skills and Experience
You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:
•Carrying out product management of APIs and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related APIs
•Have proven success in leading a team of highly talented and opinionated product managers and taken multiple ideas from conception to go-live through standard software product development lifecycle and got measurable success across defined KPIs
•Experienced in capacity planning forecasting and working with senior stakeholders to understand future demands and align allocation/ hiring
•Knowledge of Retail Operations Pricing Promotions Price Optimisation and Offers as concepts embedded in APIs and realized to customers and colleagues via front end apps that utilise them is beneficial.
•Efficient in stakeholder management and has ability to steer the team in the right direction by putting best team members in the most value generating Products/ Business priorities
•Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical experience
•Extensive experience with transactional APIs and service-oriented architecture. Technically competent to influence and understand the solution context and approach (legacy tactical strategic) and aid engineering in estimating the complexity of work being requested
•Understands the impact technical debt is causing and the value Tech upgrades can bring in and can hold the objective conversations with your technology counterparts to prioritize it during any sprint
•Have great prioritization and decision making skills and have made good decisions/ judgements around business priorities and resource allocation etc
•Experience in conducting fair appraisals and handling conflicts
•Experience in building/ hiring grooming a team of Product Managers
•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.
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
•Build & nurture a great team of APMs PMs for your product portfolio
Tesco Document Title
Date
Qualifications
You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of: • Carrying out product management of APIs and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related APIs • Have proven success in leading a team of highly talented and opinionated produ