Associate Product Manager - Your Contribution

Your Contribution is Tesco's global performance management application, serving around 300,000 colleagues across the organisation. It drives the business's objectives, reviews and calibration processes, PDP’s and feedback, along with operational performance reporting.

This exciting role, spans the full product lifecycle, helping take the product to its next phase as the vision and strategy is renewed. The successful applicant will help to create great user experiences by delivering the roadmap, writing stories and working closely with our engineering and quality teams, supporting deployments, creating product analytics, managing business as usual activities and liaising with our Help teams.  

There will also be opportunities to contribute to strategy, research, planning, plenty of stakeholder engagement, as well as embedding new ways of working, introducing AI, establishing insights, and improving Product practices.

• Inputting to, evolving and driving the delivery of the product roadmap.

• Effectively documenting and explaining new requirements to the engineering team, using user stories with acceptance criteria

• Following agile principles, taking part in and running team ceremonies.

• Understand key product users, customers & stakeholders, requirement, opportunities and pain points.

• Performance/ adoption of the product and work towards setting and achieving the Outcomes and Key Deliverables.

• Creating and driving reporting and analytics, and enabling evidenced based decisions.

• Collaborating with research and design colleagues, stakeholders and users

• Prioritise coordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues

• Supporting the PM to set direction of the product as part of the wider talent strategy, prioritising work and resolving trade-offs

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Empathy and good listening skills to understand the needs/ pain points of your customers/stakeholders
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, writing effective user stories/ acceptance criteria
• Understanding tech debt and non-functional requirements like performance, security
• Experience working with reports, dashboards or analytical products, ideally within operational or enterprise environments
• Understanding of KPIs, metrics and performance reporting for management or leadership audiences
• Confidence in explaining reporting logic, limitations and assumptions to stakeholders
• Understanding a typical Software Development Lifecycle
• Understanding of User Research/ Design Thinking concepts

Understanding of:

• Some understanding of retail and complex global organisations
• Knowledge of People, Talent, Reward, and Colleague Development processes and systems.
• Translating customer requirements into technical terms
• Explaining technical capabilities and limitations to business stakeholders
• Breaking down complex problems into small, deliverable chunks of work
• Building, maintaining and prioritising a product backlog using tools such as Jira
• Documenting and explaining new requirements to engineers using tools such as Confluence/Jira/Miro
• Working in cross-functional teams distributed across multiple countries

Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.

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What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:

• We develop our own products
• We make an impact; large scale of operation
• Accountability and respect are given to us
• We cooperate and support each other
• There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
• We can develop and learn new things

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