Every week we move millions of products to our customers at record speeds. Brilliant customer experiences at this kind of pace, require fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers shop with us. And in this area of our business, we help to make sure that happens.

By engineering innovative, smart technology, we put the tools in our colleagues’ hands to power a global supply chain. Whether it’s wine from New Zealand or milk from the local dairy farm, our tech performs. We solve problems at scale. We process billions of records, predicting and planning to make our customers lives easier. We keep our warehouses and stores operating smoothly around the clock, because what’s important to our customers, is important to us.

The role of Senior Product Manager within Pricing and Promotions is a critical role within the business, working on future pricing and promotion solutions to deliver multi-brand, multi-channel solutions enabling scalable future-facing capabilities for Sainsbury’s. Key areas of focus are delivering intuitive and integrated solutions, enabling colleagues to execute pricing and promotional activities more simply and efficiently; and providing a single, accessible source of data to drive data led decisions. A high profile and exciting role, this role has wide impact across all of our brands and channels, and involves collaborating and building effective relationships with a broad range of stakeholders across the business. Influencing effectively and building a strong network are key. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager with strong technical skills and understanding, the core focus of the role will be building the backbone integration services across Sainsbury’s business estate to downstream systems including till systems, shelf edge labels, groceries online. A strong understanding of the Retail industry and the price and promotions landscape is a plus.

In the role, you’ll have wide impact across all of our brands and channels. You’ll collaborate and build relationships with a broad range of stakeholders across the business, so it’s important that you can influence effectively and create strong networks. You’ll also have a strong understanding of the Retail industry and the price and promotions landscape.

More about the role

• You’ll support the strategy and develop specific roadmaps and backlogs for products, building in complete end to end customer experiences that deliver on agreed product metrics (OKRs)
• You’ll own the customer and business value for specific products, including securing support through the appropriate process and relevant technology teams
• Accountable for end-to-end delivery in product management for specific products, ensuring activity is prioritised in line with the agreed product goals and metrics
• You’ll maintain a realistic 90-day roadmap, as well as a prioritised, estimated FY backlog and regularly communicating progress, proactively managing risks/issues to remove blockers
• Lead the collaboration within both the core family team, other product teams and 3rd parties to launch new product features, maximising re-use across the business
• Evaluation of potential partner relationships; helping to identify necessary and/or desirable third-party technology to evaluate and select vendors 
• You’ll support the communication and resolution of live product incidents and effectively prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of production issues

More about you 

• You’ll have a strong understanding of the Retail industry and the price and promotions landscape
• Clear understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices
• Knowledge of technical product development principles and methodologies
• Judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace, including comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and help drive toward clarity
• Drive to seek value and help motivate and support technology teams
• An ability to creatively problem solve and enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology
• A high level of team contribution, seek opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus, role model effective collaboration

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

• Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
• Holiday allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.