Tesco
Senior Product Manager - Network Optimisation
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Senior Product Manager – Network Optimisation
About the Role
Working as a Senior Product Manager within our Network optimisation team, you will own the roadmap for products that bridge two key horizons—the operational tools used daily to configure and manage our fulfilment points and their capacities, alongside a set of decision support tools utilised to make strategic decisions about medium and long-term network configurations.
This exciting role positions you at the heart of decisions about what we can fulfil, from where. You'll work closely with data scientists and engineers to build the tools that define Tesco, directly impacting critical business metrics like carbon emissions and transportation costs.
This is a 14-month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC) covering maternity leave.
Responsibilities
Product Ownership & Strategy
- Identify opportunities through collaborative continuous discovery
- Evolve and drive the product vision, strategy, and long-term roadmap
- Proactively partner with peers and senior stakeholders to set the future direction of the product, aligning with the wider business strategy
- Understand key user personas, customers, and stakeholders, their pain points, and their needs
Performance & Delivery
- Account for product performance/adoption and align work with Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs)
- Prioritise work and resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders decisively
- Document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories and acceptance criteria
- Break down complex work into smaller, deliverable increments of value with agile teams
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Cross-Functional Leadership
- Steer sprint/release planning sessions to deliver maximum business value
- Drive adoption and acceptance of ideas among product and engineering teams
- Independently prioritise, coordinate, and communicate resolutions for live product issues
- Provide leadership and direction to cross-functional teams, especially in short-term and near-term priorities
- Act as the subject matter expert for Network Optimisation, leveraging past value delivery
- Serve as a role model for other product managers, mentoring, upskilling, and sharing best practices
Requirements
Domain & Technical Expertise
- Proficiency in using quantitative and qualitative data to inform complex decisions and match the right data type to the right problem
- Expert understanding of machine learning concepts and ability to leverage them to build impactful products
- Knowledge of large-scale data platforms (scalability, availability, performance, security)
- Strong experience in the full Product Management lifecycle with an Agile mindset, covering discovery, design, development, and delivery
- Data-driven prioritisation skills with consistent use of frameworks like MoSCoW or RICE
- Experience with tools for creating and maintaining product roadmaps
- Ability to use roadmaps to align stakeholders and build buy-in
Business Acumen
- Strong commercial awareness, including KPIs like revenue impact, cost savings, and supply chain efficiency
- Clear understanding of performance indicators and ability to influence strategic decisions
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Benefits
We prioritise our colleagues’ wellbeing with a comprehensive benefits package:
- Annual bonus scheme (up to 20% of base salary)
- Holiday entitlement: 25 days + 1 personal day + Bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave with full pay (if eligible), followed by statutory maternity/adoption pay or 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
Collaborative & flexible work model:
- Spend 60% of your time onsite or hybrid and 40% remote
- Champion family-friendly policies and support flexible working arrangements throughout your application process
- 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), and access to mental health support specialists
Tesco is an Accredited Disability Confident Leader. Learn more about inclusive hiring here.
Why Tesco?
At Tesco, we blend innovation across our supermarket heritage, tech teams (including our award-winning mobile network), and mission-driven community-focused projects. Our colleagues thrive by designing products that create everyday benefits for customers, colleagues, and the world we operate in.
No single path or background excludes you from opportunities here—flexibility in recruitment and career growth is core to our culture. Apply even if you don’t tick every box—we’re excited to meet you.
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