Senior Product Manager - Supply Chain Inventory
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As Senior Product Manager in Supply Chain, you’ll focus on understanding, anticipating and exceeding customer product needs, creating opportunities to add broad appeal to customers and championing their long‑term vision to support our business strategy. You’ll employ a variety of techniques to develop your understanding of the tech landscape and customer expectations, use product metrics to prioritise the roadmap, and seek data and insights to make informed decisions.
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 communicate 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
* Knowledge and understanding of a Retail business and the technology landscape is essential while work experience in Supply Chain is desirable.
* Demonstrates strategic thinking and seeing the bigger picture of how to maximise the value that products can and will add across the E2E ecosystem.
* Understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
* Knowledge of technical product development principles, data modelling and methodologies.
* Ability to translate business goals, technology strategy and market knowledge into a product roadmap that prioritises delivery of value and enables future business agility.
* Anticipating risks and opportunities, responding to escalations at pace and coaching others to find solutions based on your expertise.
* Ability to switch between strategic visioning and getting into the detail, being the authority in all aspects of your product.
* Awareness of existing and future stacks/interfaces for the product and how to develop these so they work seamlessly for customers and colleagues.
* A high level of team contribution, seek opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus.
* An awareness of how our data is used across our business.
* Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity in order to cut through issues and solve complex problems.
* Understanding of Key Performance Metric Indicators (KPI metrics) and how they are used to support business processes.
* Ability to address priority challenges and decisions in a calm, pragmatic and professional manner.
* Ability to navigate across multiple domains to help secure requirements, stakeholder relationships, and key technical solutions.
* Experience with working with both onshore and offshore teams.
Benefits
* Colleague discount across our multi‑brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat.
* Holiday allowance.
* Bonus scheme.
* Pension plan.
* Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.
Work‑life Balance & Inclusivity
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.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, welcoming everyone, no matter who you are or where you work. There is always the chance to try something new and we take development seriously, supporting you and offering flexible work wherever possible.
Senior Level
Seniority Level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Product Management and Marketing
Industry: Retail
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