Product Manager

2 weeks ago


Coventry, West Midlands, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time
Job Description
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.

Sainsburys Tech - Product Manager Logistics - FTC

Why join us

Joining Sainsbury's Tech means being part of a 150-year-old retail chain that is undergoing a transformative journey towards embracing innovation and agility. As a Tech professional, you have the unique opportunity to contribute to driving change and pushing boundaries, as we invest in creating amazing systems and technologies. With a wealth of expertise to learn from and access to vast amounts of data from billions of transactions, you will be part of a dynamic environment where things are built, made, and implemented quickly. Your work will directly impact both our colleagues and customers, creating incredible experiences and shaping the future of retail technology. Welcome to the home of Sainsbury's Tech, where you can be part of our collective journey and make a meaningful difference.

What you'll do

In this Product Manager role, you will be at the forefront of innovation in Logistics Transport with the opportunity to make a huge impact. This role will involve working with colleagues from across the Supply Chain & Logistics division to enhance our logistics capability, ensuring it can rapidly adapt to evolving customer shopping habits. You will oversee a varied portfolio, encompassing both legacy systems and greenfield innovations, and will collaborate with internal agile teams as well as external partners and vendors. You will work with an in-house team of brilliant engineers developing automated transport systems. 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 great support from your manager in this space and work together to drive the product forward.

What we're looking for:
  • We'd love you to have worked in a technical product or business analyst role before. You drive efficient and effective product processes e.g. agile ceremonies
  • You really get the customer and can translate business requirements into clear user stories and sprint goals for the team.
  • You're technically curious, as you'll be working directly with engineers, architects, and third parties, building real software. You ask the right questions so that you can help others understand your product.
  • You'll be bold, curious, resilient, 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.
  • You have strong organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as the ability to analyse and solve problems logically.
  • A people person. You'll build great relationships We need people who want to help us build a brilliant team culture and make Sainsbury's a great place to work.
  • An understanding of Logistics and the technology which powers high performing logistics and particularly transport operations would be valuable.

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


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.

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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:

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 10% 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, 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.

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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