About the role
We have an outstanding opportunity for an Associate Product Manager to join Tesco’s Basket Pricing Engine Team, part of the wider Retail Platform Team. Our mission is to deliver flexible pricing capabilities by building a compliant, secure, robust, performant, and scalable platform that provides accurate quotes (prices for a basket) and their resulting invoices to customers and consumers.
Reporting to the Senior Product Manager, you will work alongside other Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Data Analysts and Technical Programme Managers, to help define the vision and strategy. In the Basket Pricing Engine team, you will focus on how prices and promotions are executed, and a price is offered to the customer for the products that they want to buy. This is part of our Price platform which in turn powers all the colleague and customer pricing and checkout transactions at Tesco. This is across all the countries where we have stores, and in support of Tesco’s core purpose and values.
We are looking for an ambitious individual who can demonstrate a passion for solving problems, working collaboratively, and embracing technology and change in what is an exciting and broad area. This is a great opportunity to join a team focused on the development of the candidate to learn best practice of Product Management and fulfil their potential.
You will be responsible for
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.
* Evolve the product roadmap involving writing user stories, managing the backlog and priorities.
* Understand and partner with multiple internal/ external stakeholders in line with the wider business and Product strategy.
* Understand key user personas, customers and stakeholders for the product and their pain points.
* Work alongside research, design, analytics, and engineering teams to design and develop solutions to solve real business needs.
* Work as part of a wider product team, with a culture for shared goals, helping where appropriate as the need arises.
* Understand and demonstrate all the features of my product to different audiences within and outside of my immediate product team.
* 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.
* Be accountable for the performance/ adoption of your product and work towards increasing it.
* Monitor competitor activity and market trends.
You will need
* Ideally have previous experience in a Pricing domain and / or with APIs.
* An understanding of the Product Management lifecycle, product delivery process and the importance of an Agile mindset to discover, design, define, develop, and deliver small increments of the most important opportunities that will drive growth and value for the product.
* An understanding of the importance of a product vision and strategy and how they are used to align teams to collaborate and prioritise work around a shared outcome.
* An understanding of the value that the User Experience (UX) and User Interface Design (UI) disciplines bring to products.
* The ability to know who the different customers that use a product are, be aware of the factors that influence and impact customer behaviour and be aware of how to use the outputs from customer research sessions to influence the product roadmap.
* An understanding of why experimentation is important to validate ideas and hypotheses.
* Awareness of how to use relevant tools to produce and update roadmaps for my product.
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we give our wonderful colleagues bags of benefits. Including wellbeing services, an award-winning pension scheme and much, much more, our colleague reward package keeps on giving. And helps make every day a little better for you and your family. These include but are not limited to:
* Colleague bonus scheme
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus bank holidays)
* Buy holiday salary sacrifice scheme (for salaried roles)
* Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
* Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
* 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
* The right to request flexible working from your first day with us
* 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
* A Colleague Clubcard for you & a family member (after 3 months of service), giving you access to lots of discounts in-store & online
* Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
* Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds. For more information about our colleague networks please click here
* Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want
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.
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