About the role
Supplier Ordering & TescoConnect
You will be responsible for
Key ResponsibilitiesStrategic Product Leadership• Establish long-term product vision and roadmap for supply chain ordering and collaboration platforms, aligned with Tesco’s strategic and business objectives.• Transform and modernise the Supplier Ordering and Collaboration domain, evolve the product capabilities to ensure it is purpose-fit and future-fit.• Leverage your domain knowledge to manage the product lifecycle for you domain, developing and maturing new capabilities and decommission older, more legacy systems. • Identifying opportunities to deliver savings and benefits, ensuring we can differentiate in the market and stay relevant for our suppliers. • Be responsible for achieving or exceeding agreed product KPIs improvements across all the products owned/ managed by your team.• Contribute to defining the business/value case for transformation and identify new capabilities that need to be built, empowering your Product Leads.• Use leadership and negotiation skills to define and influence outcomes both within and outside of the organisation to achieve the best for Tesco customers, colleagues, suppliers and partners.• Handle conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly trade-offs and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence.Team Leadership & Growth• Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing product team focused on supply capabilities.• Promote a culture of accountability, empowerment, and continuous improvement across product squads.• Set clear goals and KPIs for your team members and periodically review all the KPIs owned by the team spanning across multiple products and provide feedback on improving those.• Understand skill gap and ensure the team receives the right upskilling and support to excel in their roles.• Motivate the team by ensuring they have fulfilling roles, proper rewards and recognition strategies.• Inspire, mentor and coach other Product Managers and Teams improving product capability at Tesco.• Contribute in talent planning for your own Product area to ensure a continuous talent pipeline and recognition.• Carry out people routines for direct reports and develop talented people.• Conduct fair performance appraisals and provide constructive feedback for your team. • Contribute towards hiring/ building a great pool of product managers.Cross-Functional Collaboration• Work closely with business stakeholders (supply chain ops, merchandising, trading) and technology teams to ensure alignment of product goals and execution.• Work closely with UI/UX, Programme, Engineering and Business partners, to solve customer, colleague, supplier and business problems, defining and agreeing outcomes and key results.• Partner with Data Science team to ensure products built leverage AI/ML capabilities and Simulation• Foster strong partnerships across supply planning, supplier management, and data analytics functions.Product Development & Delivery• Manage budgets and ensure team funding is secured by working closely with your Director and Programme Lead• Lead aligned product discovery, agile delivery and continuous product evolution.• Ensure delivered solutions meet performance, reliability, and scalability expectations. Define KPIs to track success.• Ensure OKR’s KPIs and reporting are established and conduct periodic Product reviews. Data-Driven Prioritization & Insights• Use data, market research, and stakeholder feedback to prioritize features that drive impact in supply planning (accuracy, efficiency, responsiveness).• Implement robust reporting and dashboards to monitor supply chain product performance and ROI.Innovation & Technology• Stay ahead of supply planning/ ordering and collaboration Industry tech trends (e.g., AI-driven planning and collaboration, automation).• Work with engineering, programme and UI/UX to deliver innovative, future facing solutions aligned with supplier and supply chain needs.You will need
Required Experience & SkillsProduct Management Leadership• Experience leading large product teams and delivering strategic outcomes and transformation across the full product development lifecycle.• Deep knowledge of supply chain planning systems – especially supply planning/ ordering and supplier collaboration tools. Be able to contribute as a thought leader.• Proven leader in mentoring product managers, fostering teamwork, and presenting/ Influencing to senior executives.Strategic & Analytical Thinking• Strong capability in roadmap definition, platform thinking, and modular solution design.• Ability to interpret data and insights to guide product decisions and optimise planning metrics.• Ability to use data and Insights to solve complex customer and partner problems.Cross-Functional Collaboration• Evident experience aligning product direction with operations, data, engineering, and supplier stakeholder groups.• Ability to demonstrate collaborative and commercial leadership.• Ability to evaluate business cases, translate In to value and surface priorities and trade-offs for prioritisation and decisions makingAgility In Technology Excellence• Skilled in agile methodologies, planning, delivery, and iterative product development.• Understanding of large-scale data platforms, system integrations, and performance monitoring.Whats in it for you?
At Tesco, we are committed to providing the best for you. As a result, our colleagues enjoy a unique, differentiated, market- competitive reward package, based on the current industry practices, for all the work they put into serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. Our Tesco Rewards framework consists of pillars - Fixed Pay, Incentives, and Benefits. Total Rewards offered at Tesco is determined by four principles -simple, fair, competitive, and sustainable. Salary
- Your fixed pay is the guaranteed pay as per your contract of employment. Annual Bonus
- Opportunity to earn additional bonus, distributed as 2/3rd in compensation and 1/3rd in shares. Leave & Time-off
- Colleagues are entitled to 30 days of leave (18 days of Earned Leave, 12 days of Casual/Sick Leave) and 10 national and festival holidays, as per the company’s policy. Making Retirement Tension-FreeSalary
- In addition to Statutory retirement beneets, Tesco enables colleagues to participate in voluntary programmes like NPS and VPF. Health is Wealth
- Tesco promotes programmes that support a culture of health and wellness including insurance for colleagues and their family. Our medical insurance provides coverage for dependents including parents or in-laws. Mental Wellbeing
- We offer mental health support through self-help tools, community groups, ally networks, face-to-face counselling, and more for both colleagues and dependents. Financial Wellbeing
- Through our financial literacy partner, we offer one-to-one financial coaching at discounted rates, as well as salary advances on earned wages upon request. Save As You Earn (SAYE)
- Our SAYE programme allows colleagues to transition from being employees to Tesco shareholders through a structured 3-year savings plan. Physical Wellbeing
- Our green campus promotes physical wellbeing with facilities that include a cricket pitch, football field, badminton and volleyball courts, along with indoor games, encouraging a healthier lifestyle. About Us
Tesco in Bengaluru is a multi-disciplinary team serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day across markets. Our goal is to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility through technological solutions, and empowering our colleagues to do even more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise, a wide network of teams, and strong governance, we reduce complexity, thereby offering high-quality services for our customers. Tesco in Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 3,30,000 colleagues Tesco Technology
Today, our Technology team consists of over 5,000 experts spread across the UK, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and India. In India, our Technology division includes teams dedicated to Engineering, Product, Programme, Service Desk and Operations, Systems Engineering, Security & Capability, Data Science, and other roles. At Tesco, our retail platform comprises a wide array of capabilities, value propositions, and products, essential for crafting exceptional retail experiences for our customers and colleagues across all channels and markets. This platform encompasses all aspects of our operations - from identifying and authenticating customers, managing products, pricing, promoting, enabling customers to discover products, facilitating payment, and ensuring delivery. By developing a comprehensive Retail Platform, we ensure that as customer touchpoints and devices evolve, we can consistently deliver seamless experiences. This adaptability allows us to respond flexibly without the need to overhaul our technology, thanks to the creation of capabilities we have built.
