Location
London, London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£10,000 per month

About the Role
Our Data & Analytics teams help colleagues across Sainsbury’s make better decisions through trusted data, insight and increasingly AI-enabled products. As a Senior Product Manager within our Commercial area, you’ll lead a significant Data & Analytics product area and shape how data and insight are used to improve some of the decisions that matter most to our customers and our business. You will work closely with Commercial, Analytics, Product, Engineering and Data Science colleagues to understand the problems we need to solve, set the direction for your product area and turn opportunities into measurable outcomes.

This role offers the chance to work on complex, high-impact Commercial challenges while helping us continue to strengthen how we work as a Product organisation. You will own the strategy, direction and roadmap for a significant Data & Analytics product area, creating clarity on the problems we are solving and the outcomes we want to achieve. Partnering closely with Commercial teams, you will identify where data, analytics, BI and emerging AI capabilities can improve outcomes and translate these into clear product priorities.

You will lead discovery and delivery, using data, insight and customer understanding to test opportunities and determine where to invest. Defining measurable customer and business outcomes, you will prioritise investment and demonstrate the impact your products have. Working across Product, Engineering, Analytics, Data Science and Delivery teams, you will turn strategy into valuable products and capabilities. Managing priorities, dependencies and trade-offs, you will break larger opportunities into smaller increments that deliver value early and often.

You will continually review and evolve your product area, including simplifying, modernising or retiring existing products where they no longer meet business needs. You will help move our analytical products beyond simply explaining what happened, towards helping colleagues understand what to do next. Additionally, you will contribute to our wider Product community, helping develop our product culture, capability and ways of working.

At Sainsbury’s, data sits at the heart of how we operate, innovate and serve our customers. Our Data & Analytics team is building a technically advanced, commercially focused and impactful capability, powering our Next Level Strategy and helping to create a Sainsbury’s powered by industry leading AI algorithms. With one of the richest retail datasets in the UK and a portfolio spanning Sainsbury’s, Argos, Habitat and Nectar, the opportunity to innovate is huge. Here, you’ll tackle complex challenges at scale, create measurable impact and grow quickly alongside brilliant colleagues.

Experience
Proven experience owning and leading a complex product area, from strategy and discovery through to delivery and value realisation. Experience defining product strategy and roadmaps based on customer and business problems rather than simply managing a backlog of requirements. Evidence of delivering measurable customer and/or business outcomes through digital, data, analytics or insight products. Strong product discovery skills, with experience using evidence and insight to understand problems, test opportunities and prioritise investment. Experience working across multidisciplinary teams and bringing business and technical colleagues together around shared outcomes.

About you
You are an experienced Product Manager comfortable working in a complex, data-rich environment and turning ambiguity into clear direction. You combine strong product judgement with curiosity about how a business works. You are interested in the decisions colleagues need to make, the problems behind them and how data, analytics and technology can help. You are equally comfortable working with senior Commercial stakeholders and multidisciplinary technical teams, able to bring different perspectives together around a shared problem and outcome. While you don’t need to be a data scientist or engineer, you should be comfortable working with data and technology and able to understand enough detail to make good product decisions. Strong strategic judgement, including the ability to prioritise competing needs, make effective trade-offs and communicate the rationale behind decisions. Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to make complex topics clear to senior and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications
We welcome candidates from diverse backgrounds and are committed to being an inclusive employer. While specific qualifications are not detailed, a strong track record in product management within data, analytics or related fields is essential. A passion for data-driven decision making and continuous learning is highly valued.