Sainsbury's
Senior Product Manager - Ad Tech
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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 to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.
Please note - This is a 12 month FTC position
Senior Product Manager – Ad Tech
Want to solve really interesting and technical problems at huge scale?
Want to learn from the best
Want to work hand in hand with development teams
Want the flexibility to work at home and in an office where it helps you meet your work and life commitments?
Read below for your next opportunity....
Come and grow with our Nectar product family
Nectar is the largest loyalty coalition programme in the UK so it’s safe to say we know our millions of customers pretty well. We build brilliant tech on top of rich first party data, to offer brands an insight into what makes their customers tick and what they might be interested in. All this drives sales back into our stores and therefore our bottom line – win, win.
Our media agency technology is market leading, cutting edge and fast-moving. We’re at the heard of Nectar360’s strategy which means lots of eyes are on us – and you’d be central to our success. You’ll support end-to-end delivery by maintaining a 90-day product roadmap and full-year backlog. This, of course means prioritising effectively, escalating challenges as necessary and being hands-on with the development, delivering innovative functionality into the hands of users.
You’ll have your finger on the pulse of our development squads and work closely with a range of teams and third parties including some of the tech giants. You’ll have great support from your manager in this space and work together to drive the product forward.
You’ll be bold, curious, technically minded, resilient and empathetic and able to connect with stakeholders and the team in an authentic way. What’s more, you’ll be comfortable with making decisions, challenging assumptions and taking risks.
More about the role:
- You'll lead a cross-functional agile team in partnership with Engineering Managers, to drive third party integrations, strategy and roadmap.
- You will work with the team to shape which technologies we use and how best to deliver them to deliver on our strategy.
- You will research and evaluate new technology and/or solutions to benefit monetisation. You will explore the best approaches for our evolving capabilities, including where and how to leverage Artificial Intelligence.
- You’ll be technically minded; able to understand solutions at a level where you can work in depth with our Solutions Architects and Engineering team, but explain them to any stakeholder regardless of their technical prowess.
- You'll work with a large variety of stakeholders to steer the direction of development, interacting frequently with senior leaders and working closely with a range of teams and third parties
- You'll track both effort and value delivery, identifying opportunities for cost reduction and use this insight to inform prioritisation
- You’ll be responsible for coaching and mentoring other team members to enable then to grow and reach their full potential
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Skills and experience:
- Extensive experience in the Product Management discipline covering MarTech or digital product, market & customer research, owning roadmap, and delivery.
- Technically minded, able to get into the ‘nuts and bolts’ of a solution to understand how it works and whether it best meets our technical needs.
- Strong analytical skills to define product metrics and analyse performance.
- Experience in managing cross functional team, working with data scientists and data engineering.
- Possess knowledge and understanding of a retail business and technology landscape, and how to maximise the value that data products can and will add.
- Clear understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
- Judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace - comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and helping drive toward clarity.
- An ability to creatively solve problems and enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology.
- A high level of team contribution, seeking opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus - a role model effective collaboration.
In return you’ll get:
- Colleague discount across the multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
- Holiday allowance
- Bonus scheme
- Pension plan
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
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Last couple of bits…
We’ve adopted a hybrid model, coming together for collaboration and to get to know each other better. We’re working flexibly – have a chat with us about what you need.
If you’ve read this far, but are not 100% sure you’re there with your experience, still get in touch. The skills you do have are often more transferrable than you think ??. Equally with such a large and growing tech team, it might be there’s something else that could suit you better. If you’d like to find out more head to Sainsbury's DTD.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, 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, depending on how we perform. 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 (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
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