Senior Product Manager - Commercial Data
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 22 November 2024
Requisition ID: 274024
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.
We’re a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers a day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an evolving set of commercial platforms. All this equals over 1.2 billion transactions each year, presenting a volume, depth, and complexity of data that few can match.
We don’t think we’re exaggerating when we say we have the most exciting data set in the country. And from the insights gained, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that give our customers an amazing shopping experience – like our award-winning Smartshop app. In an inclusive, agile environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, to experiment, and to solve real-world challenges. And you’ll get to see your creations in the hands of hundreds of colleagues or millions of customers across the UK.
Commercial is at the very heart of Sainsbury’s where we vision, create, plan and buy the products our customers love. It’s where you’ll find our buying, merchandising and quality teams alongside specialist teams focused on own brand, space, events, pricing, etc. In Sainsbury’s Tech – Commercial Food, we provide the technology and data to empower our Commercial colleagues with market leading decisioning and execution capabilities.
As a Senior Product Manager in Commercial Food, you will work closely with a variety of teams across commercial, analytics, digital, supply chain, logistics and retail to advance several core strategic initiatives by building up the Commercial data within our corporate Data Warehouse which we call ASPIRe.
Data within the Warehouse drives decisions, reporting, algorithms etc all of which affects millions of customers and thousands of colleagues.
More about the roles
- You'll be responsible for owning new and existing Commercial data pipelines- across several domains within our Commercial landscape including supplier, item or range and assortment management, stores, price/ promo- evening Nectar Prices.
- You'll work with both analytical colleagues and technical stakeholders to share and deliver on our vision.
- You'll lead an agile Engineering team, in partnership with an Engineering Manager, to drive Commercial Food roadmaps and development; regularly communicating progress, proactively managing risks/issues to remove blockers, and effectively prioritising, coordinating, and communicating the resolution of any production issues.
- You’ll be responsible for the coordination and alignment with other product teams and experience design to develop and launch new products and to continually improve customer experience.
- You will have line management responsibility of one colleague
More about you
- Possess knowledge and understanding of a retail business and technology/ data landscape
- Clear understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
- Knowledge of product development principles and methodologies- prioritisation is a key skill to possess.
- Demonstrate great value behaviours and a growth mindset coupled with drive, determination, and desire.
- 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.
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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: 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.
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.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).