Associate Product Manager - Distribution (Reporting layer)

About the role

Product managers at TESCO Technology are passionate about solving problems. They take accountability for complex products, and are empowered to drive the product strategy, roadmap and outcomes. Driven by curiosity and innovation, coupled with strong partnership with Business, Engineering, User Research and Data Science teams, our product managers create value for our Customers and Colleagues in all our markets.

TESCO's fulfilment operations are powered by one of the largest distribution and fulfilment networks in the world. Store Fulfilment is the backbone of the business and at the forefront of serving our Customers. Our fulfilment network ensures our Customers get their shopping when, where and how they want it. Our fulfilment operations are on a progressive journey to embrace automation and modernize our applications, with technology at the heart of our industry-leading plans.

We are looking for an Associate Product Manager to be part of this journey. You will work within a complex data and product domain, supporting the delivery of corporate and management reporting products f rom discovery through to rollout. The role spans the full product lifecycle and offers exposure to senior stakeholders across Distribution, Technology and Analytics.

What is in it for you

Hybrid working

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That's why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about different flexible working options. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as you will spend 60% (3 days) of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.

Our benefits

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with:

• Up to 10% yearly salary bonus - based on both individual and business performance

• Permanent contract from the go - as a sign of our trust in your abilities

• Tax-deductible expenses (IP)

• Private healthcare (LuxMed)

• Cafeteria & Multisport

• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life

• Increase in annual leave (from 20 to 25 days) for those not yet eligible for the full holiday entitlement

• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and a learning platform (Udemy)

• Back-to-school day - 1 day off for parents of primary school children

• Fertility leave - up to 2 weeks of paid leave for IVF treatment

• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office

• Referral bonus

• MacBook as your work tool

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.

You will be responsible for

Key responsibilities:

• Own and deliver features within enterprise wide reporting products, supporting global distribution and fulfilment operations
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand reporting needs, KPIs and decision use cases at site, country and corporate levels
• Support the definition of standardised data models, metrics and dashboards
• Relentlessly seek to understand the needs and pain points of my customers and business stakeholders
• Prioritise roadmaps with multiple optimization criteria and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders
• Proactively partner with peers and senior stakeholders to help set the future direction of my product as part of the wider business strategy
• Ability to visualise and explain complexity to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Attitude and the aptitude to learn new product area/domain quickly
• Transparency and honesty about risks and uncertainties while pushing forward and adjusting to lessons learned
• 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 of User Research/ Design Thinking concepts

You will need

You'll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• 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
• Familiarity with data concepts such as data sources, aggregation, transformations and data quality
• Confidence in explaining reporting logic, limitations and assumptions to stakeholders
• Working understanding of enterprise reporting and BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, web based reporting platforms), including how dashboards are designed, consumed and used for management decision making.
• Domain expertise in store fulfillment is a plus
• Understanding a typical Software Development Lifecycle
• Understanding the concepts of user stories, personas, acceptance test criteria
• Understanding Agile methodologies
• Understanding tech debt and non-functional requirements like performance, security

Understanding of:

• 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

About us

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.

Want to get to know us better?

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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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