Sainsbury's
Group Product Manager - Retail and Digital Data
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Sainsbury's is embarking on an exciting journey of technological investment and
innovation. With significant funding, we are enhancing our capabilities to lead in data, analytics, and personalisation. Our focus is on delivering high-quality data solutions that empower our customers and end users to make informed decisions and to achieve our business objectives. We are proud to boast one of the most compelling data sets in the country, leveraging insights to build scalable, high-performing products that enhance customer experiences. In our inclusive and agile environment, you will have the opportunity to be curious, experiment, and tackle real-world challenges with your colleagues, witnessing the impact of your work on hundreds of colleagues and millions of customers across the UK.
More about the role
You’ll be accountable for ensuring all activity is prioritised in line with business strategy and the agreed goals and metrics for our core Retail and Digital data products. These products turn store, digital and operational data into trusted, reusable assets that improve decision-making, increase revenue, reduce cost, improve colleague satisfaction and productivity and enable better customer experiences. You will provide leadership and line management for a team of Senior Product Managers responsible for the delivery of these products, in partnership with Engineering and Delivery.
You’ll work in close collaboration with a variety of engineering teams and Product Managers, architects, analysts, data scientists, senior stakeholders and more, arbitrating conflicting priorities and influencing across teams while fostering a community spirit within Sainsbury's and spearheading the collective coaching effort within product and the wider business. You’ll support the communication and resolution of live product incidents and effectively prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of production issues.
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More about you
- You’re a leader. You demonstrate strong leadership and interpersonal skills that enable you to understand various perspectives, able to drive cross-functional groups towards successful implementation of a range of customer data products that align with our business goals.
- You’re a people person. You’ll build, lead, coach and motivate a team of Product / Senior Product Managers delivering a group of related products in partnership with multiple engineering squads; support them with definition of their product goals and ruthlessly prioritise to deliver on our commitments, guiding their focus as they build a vision and actionable backlog with associated benefit/investment cases.
- You’re a Product person. You’re dedicated to value balancing the customer and the tech; you have an enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology and you know how to prioritise and deliver on outcomes. You understand agile delivery and engineering practices, with experience working with engineering teams. You want to get stuck into our product community driving it forward and continuously, focusing on growing those around you, whilst continuously developing yourself.
- You’re a great communicator. You can land messages clearly with stakeholders at all levels, generating energy and driving consensus even when we’re having to make tough decisions and can articulate a compelling vision and goals for a group of products.
- You’re a data person. You understand how it can be used to influence decisions, and even better if you’ve worked with it before managing data capabilities, AI or ML products and platforms. You are technically curious; you keep your finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the industry and are aware of key trends influencing sustainability and your team’s group of products.
- You’re proactive and pragmatic. You are a self-starter, able to push ahead and bring teams with you, holding people to account and building productive relationships internally and externally. You have the judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace and are comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and helping drive toward clarity.
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