Product Manager

About the role

We are seeking a Product Manager to join our team and contribute to the development of Bumblebee. This role offers an excellent opportunity for individuals with a passion for the technical side of product management, particularly those interested in gaining practical experience with API integrations and backend optimisation. Bumblebee is a backend API, events, and optimisation engine within the Transport team, responsible for:

• Calculating slot availability for customers shopping online with Tesco and sharing this information via web and app platforms
• Developing optimal delivery schedules to ensure customer orders are fulfilled within their preferred time slots

This position is ideal for candidates seeking hands-on experience in API-driven product management, while working on impactful solutions that enhance the customer experience, reduce fulfilment costs, and contribute to lowering Tesco's carbon emissions. You will collaborate with engineering, data science, programme, and business stakeholders to define and deliver a prioritised roadmap that addresses operational and customer requirements, ensuring solutions are secure, reliable, and scalable.

You will be responsible for

Discovery & Delivery:
 Gain exposure to both the discovery and delivery phases of an API- and optimisation-focused product. You will have the opportunity to take ownership of one or more roadmap initiatives, driving them from inception through to completion.

Scrum Team Leadership:
 Lead a 
scrum team
, facilitate scrum ceremonies, and collaborate closely with developers as well as stakeholders from partner teams.

You will be responsible for

• Owning the roadmap and vision for Bumblebee
• Engaging with stakeholders across Customer Fulfilment and Online
• Delivering consistently by managing dependencies and setting clear expectations.
• Defining and tracking product outcomes. Responding to outcomes and celebrating successes.
• Presenting the vision, strategy, roadmap, outcomes, and delivery plans clearly.
• Collaborating and workshopping to ensure shared understanding of users and their pain points.
• Managing the backlog, running agile ceremonies, and communicating value delivered.
• Writing clear user stories and supporting efficient delivery.
• Handling live product issues independently and communicating resolutions.
• Balancing functionality, non-functional requirements, technical debt, and excellence.
• Working with peripheral teams on multi-year strategy.
• Supporting the wider product community by sharing best practices and coaching team members.
• Leading continuous product discovery to test and validate hypotheses.

You will need

• Strong grasp of Product Management and agile best practices.
• Experience working with Product Management teams that build API's.
• Experience in working with partners and stakeholders in live operations.
• Experienced in backlog prioritisation and managing complex dependencies.
• Confident in using data and insights to guide decisions.
• Experience leading workshops and presentations to varied audiences.
• Methodical and analytical in approach to product delivery.
• Familiar with software development, preferably optimisation or machine learning.
• Skilled in continuous discovery. Able to run experiments and present findings.

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.