As a Product Manager for the Authorisation team, you will drive the product strategy, roadmap and execution for payment processing technology at Tesco. Your mission is to ensure that payments are better for our customers and simpler for our colleagues. You will be the payment domain expert for Tesco, traversing partner and team boundaries, handling trade-offs, and able to collaborate expertly with both technical and non-technical audiences. We are in full control of the payment lifecycle, protecting customer data throughout. We enable innovation through a developer-friendly, omnichannel retail platform that is controlled, built, and operated by Tesco. You will be empowered to deliver with speed and impact. You will initiate product discovery and identify opportunities to deliver increments that are desirable for customers and colleagues, technically feasible, and viable for the Tesco business. So what does this all really mean? Well, your team will own our Authorisation Gateway & experiences across all channels and markets. You will manage and grow a leading authorisation gateway, responsible for processing over 2.5 billion transactions per year and expand our payment offering to our customers, optimising our processing & acceptance rates through to our acquirers and issuers. You will also contribute to our broader payment strategy, including; new payment experiences, the future of card payments, open banking, native wallets, closed loop schemes and much, much more. You will work as part of the Payments team in Tesco Technology, a cross-functional Agile product development team of engineers, technology product managers and programme managers. Our products are effective, efficient, safe, and exciting. Our portfolio of payment products includes card payment readers and cash acceptance instore and across our petrol filling stations, digital checkouts, payment gateways, payment data security, payment history, and our Tesco wallet. We are based in office locations in the United Kingdom (London and Welwyn Garden City), India (Bengaluru) and Hungary (Budapest). We are responsible for payment experience and processing for all Tesco markets globally. Tesco is the UK’s largest retailer With over 330,000 colleagues, we serve millions of customers every week, in our stores, petrol stations and online. Be part of a payment and retail transformation. Come join us Our core purpose Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day means we always keep customers at the heart of what we do, while also reflecting our responsibilities to the communities we serve and to society more broadly. Customers: Everything we do begins and ends with our customers. By understanding our customers, we can anticipate and respond to their needs and expectations. As a Group we serve a wide range of different customers, in different settings, from retail customers through to banking, mobile, Booker’s wholesale customers, and dunnhumby’s retailer and supplier clients. Communities: The role we play in the thousands of communities we serve is vital – whether it's crafting good jobs, supporting local suppliers and producers, or helping local causes through our community programmes. Planet: Our dedication to sustainability is core to our business. It drives our work across our own operations and our supply chain to reduce our environmental impact and support a healthier way of living. Significant payments domain experience, within a UK/EU Payment Gateway, PSP, Acquirer, Scheme Well connected across the payments industry. A network that includes schemes, acquirers, gateways, and other merchant teams in non-competing markets would be an advantage. Has delivered change in a Retail environment (in-store, online) Leadership of an API or platform product to build new lines of business Efficient in stakeholder management Able to influence and guide partner product teams Business process mapping, workflow optimisation, human centred design Technically proficient to influence and understand the solution context and approach (legacy, tactical, strategic) and trade-offs in software development choices Built scalable, resilience transactional services as part of a wider service orientated architecture for multiple consumers and front-end apps to use, e.g., Tills, Online Demonstrates progress against Objectives and Key Results Has taken multiple ideas through the software development lifecycle, from conception to go-live and ongoing optimisation