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About the role I have a history of delivering value to customers within my field of expertise and demonstrate a clear specialism that differentiates me as a subject matter expert. As an individual contributor this remains a hands on role from a delivery perspective. I am accountable for evolving and driving the product vision & strategy for my product, partnering with business stakeholders to set the future direction as part of the wider business strategy. I will be writing user stories, creating backlogs and setting priorities. I will demonstrate proficiency in understanding future trends in my area and be able to explain these to senior stakeholders. You will be responsible for • Will evolve and drive the product vision, strategy, and the long-term roadmap • Will proactively partner with peers and senior stakeholders to set the future direction of my product as part of the wider business strategy • Understand key user personas, customers & stakeholders for the product and their pain points. • Am accountable for the performance/ adoption of the product and work towards achieving the Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs) • Prioritise work and decisively resolve trade-offs with peers and senior leaders • Effectively document and explain new requirements to the engineering team using user stories with acceptance criteria and help the team in breaking down complex work into smaller, deliverable chunks of value that can be delivered faster. • Steer sprint/ release planning sessions by working with the engineering counterparts to plan sprints/ releases that deliver maximum business value in least effort • Drive the acceptance and adoption of ideas and improvements with product teams and engineering stakeholders • Prioritise coordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues independently • Provide leadership and direction to cross functional team (s) on short-term tasks/ near-term priorities • Be the subject matter expert for X building on my history of delivering value to customers within this product area You will need Key people and teams I work with in and outside of Tesco: Members of the broader Product team (Product Managers, Designers, Analysts, and Researchers) • Engineers & Data Scientists and other partners in Technology• Business stakeholders across Tesco People, budgets and other resources I am accountable for in my job: • Budget paper for my Product • Representing my Product in any internal/external sessions as the recognised domain expert in Tesco Operational skills relevant for this job: UX/UI Research Skills Customer Empathy Experimentation & Validation Enterprise Technology Design Creating Product Vision & Strategy Market Research Machine Learning Data Engineering Prioritisation Building a Roadmap Communicating and Managing a Long-term Product Roadmap Core Technology Development Lifecycle Product Methodologies Retail Technology Awareness Communication & Influencing Data Analytics & Insights Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving Finance & Procurement Curiosity & Learning Embracing and Enabling Change Experience relevant for this job: • I have applied UX/UI disciplines and principles to the products I work on, making sure I design a product that is intuitive and easy to interact with for the customer • I appraise and analyse the results of customer research and use the results to influence product outcomes and strategic goals. • I know how diverse personas or customer groups perceive, understand and experience my product in different ways • I write hypothesis statements and work directly with optimisation managers and/or engineers to set up and execute experiments • I know how large technology systems should interact with each other and track health metrics (uptime, SLOs, response time, etc) • I am involved in setting the vision and strategy for my product area and develop and baseline my product's OKRs • I engage with and am actively involved in market research, leveraging insights to shape the vision and strategic direction of the product in line with business and Technology goals and customer expectations. • I am skilled in using various data types in different situations and know when to use quantitative and/or qualitative data • I am an expert in machine learning concepts and know how to leverage them to build products. • I understand large scale data platforms and how they can increase the scalability, availability, performance, and security of my organisation’s data• I understand the Product Management lifecycle, product delivery process and the importance of an Agile mindset to discover, design, define, develop and deliver small increments of the most important opportunities that will drive growth and value for my product • I understand the importance of using data to prioritise and adopting a consistent approach to prioritisation • I know how to use relevant tools to produce and update roadmaps for my product • I understand the importance of a product roadmap in creating buy-in from stakeholders and other teams • I understand my business, including the key commercial drivers, business metrics and performance indicators, and can play a part in the decision-making process. 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. 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. Show more Show less
