Senior Product Manager

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 13 January 2025
Requisition ID: 283733

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.

As a Senior Product Manager in Commercial Food, you will work closely with a variety of teams across commercial, digital, supply chain, logistics and retail to advance several core strategic initiatives by building products that enhance our customer experience and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our commercial capabilities.

More about the role

• You'll be responsible for the technology which allows for new items to be onboarded at Sainsburys.
• You'll be responsible for owning new and existing strategic Product Data products and services.
• You'll work with both commercial and technical stakeholders to share and deliver on our vision.
• You'll lead agile Engineering teams to drive our Product Data roadmap and development.
• You'll be responsible for the coordination and alignment with other product teams.
• Always considering the market context, you'll articulate the business benefit of potential and current products.
• You'll work with third party software partners on build and buy initiatives.

More about you

• Possess knowledge and understanding of a retail business and technology landscape.
• Clear understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
• Knowledge of product development principles and methodologies.
• Demonstrate great value behaviours and a growth mindset.
• Judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace.
• An ability to creatively solve problems and enthusiasm for delivering change.
• A high level of team contribution and collaboration.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you'll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and 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.

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, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. There is also an Employee Assistance Programme, and you will be eligible for private healthcare too.