Product Manager

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.At Tesco, inclusion means that Everyone?s Welcome. Everyone is treated fairly and with respect; by valuing individuality and uniqueness we create a sense of belonging.Diversity and inclusion have always been at the heart of Tesco. It is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We always want our colleagues to feel they can be themselves at work and we are committed to helping them be at their best.Across the Tesco group we are building an inclusive workplace, a place to actively celebrate the cultures, personalities and preferences of our colleagues ? who in turn help to build the success of our business and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve.Job DescriptionProduct Manager – Range APIAbout Technology ChangeTogether we are empowering our colleagues to deliver relevant; timely; loved; innovative and compliant products to our customers however they choose to shop with us. Our role as Technology Change is to transform how we Buy and Manage Products for Customers and seismic change is underway here at Tesco. Supporting the business to define how our colleagues work with each other and with our partners; ensuring processes across Buy and Manage are simple; standard and effective; we are accountable for the creation of world leading technology Products which embed this best practice alongside world class data science. Joining our team of Product; Programme and Change Managers you will have the opportunity to contribute in a very real way to Tesco's success.About the RoleWe have an opportunity to join Tesco as the Range API Product Manager; within the Space; Range and Merchandising team where our mission is to ensure customers can get what they want; when they want and how they want; whether that is in their local store or online; in the UK or elsewhereThe products we range is at the absolute core of Tesco; and in Technology; we have ambitions to transform the Buying process to enable the best decisions to be made simply and easily; using data science. The range API is essential to that; ensuring that what we range meets legal and internal compliance standards and enabling products to be fulfilled by supply chain and sold through our tills by providing a simple; secure and accurate source of range data in a global and omnichannel environment.Reporting to the Lead Product Manager; you will be responsible for the future direction of the Range API; solving problems; encouraging your team and developing new features through quality; scalable; performant and maintainable technical solutions. The solutions that you will be responsible for will have a global reach; impacting millions of customers. As Product Manager; you will make priority calls regularly; balancing strategic goals with BAU needs and requirements that support wider Tesco programmes and teams; across the UK; ROI and Central Europe regions; and supporting all channels.It is an exciting time to join the team; as our broader transformation programme begins. You will have a central role to play in shaping the strategy and helping to realise our ambitions across space; range and merchandising. We are looking for an ambitious individual who can demonstrate a passion for solving problems; working collaboratively; and communicating with confidence; in what is a critical and complex area.Job Role & Responsibilities- Contribute to the product vision; strategy and long-term roadmap for the product and execute it well by constantly managing the stakeholder's expectations and considering dependencies across multiple teams.- Accountable for the performance of the product and achieving the Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs); relentlessly measuring; and communicating value to stakeholders.- Work alongside research; analytics; and engineering teams to design and develop solutions that enable real business needs to be solved.- Understands product discovery and can establish minimum viable product (MVP) for any new product/feature; collaborating with other product managers and engineering teams to validate the MVP.- Present your product and its capabilities/outcomes to other teams; linking the API work to business value.- Effectively document and explain new requirements to engineering teams using user stories and acceptance criteria and help the team in breaking down a complex piece of work into smaller; deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster.- Steer sprint planning sessions by working with the engineering counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort.- Prioritise; co-ordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues.Must have- Knowledge and experience of product management best practice and methodologies and strong technical experience- 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- The ability to build strong working relationships with peers; stakeholders; and teams across the business. Able to leverage these relationships to build consensus; drive change; and deliver value- Proven track record of owning a product roadmap and executing on product backlogs to achieve Outcomes & Key Results- Carrying out product management of APIs; or complex data structures; and have a clear understanding of managing domain boundaries between related services.QualificationsProduct Manager – Range APIAdditional InformationImportant Notice:On behalf of Tesco Bengaluru, we must caution all job seekers and educational institutions that Tesco Bengaluru does not authorise any third parties to release employment offers or conduct recruitment drives via a third party. Hence, beware of inauthentic and fraudulent job offers or recruitment drives from any individuals or websites purporting to represent Tesco. Further, Tesco Bengaluru does not charge any fee or other emoluments for any reason (including without limitation, visa fees) or seek compensation from educational institutions to participate in recruitment events.Accordingly, please check the authenticity of any such offers before acting on them and where acted upon, you do so at your own risk. Tesco Bengaluru shall neither be responsible for honouring or making good the promises made by fraudulent third parties, nor for any monetary or any other loss incurred by the aggrieved individual or educational institution.In the event that you come across any fraudulent activities in the name of Tesco Bengaluru, please feel free report the incident at [email protected]