Head of Product - London, United Kingdom - Sainsburys

Sainsburys
Sainsburys
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London, United Kingdom

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In a nutshell
In Sainsbury's Tech, we power the UK's number 1 multi-channel, multi-brand retailer.

Our product teams are made up of inspired and multidiscipline individuals who are empowered to solve hard problems in ways our customers love and serve the needs of our business.

The Head of Product (HoP) is a critical leadership role.

Relentlessly focused on understanding, anticipating and exceeding customer needs, the HoP creates, drives and champions the long term vision for their product domain to achieve our over-arching business strategy.

This product leader is a customer centric motivator who inspires and coaches, while guiding the organisation in the pursuit of value growth.


The HoP defines and drives the use of product metrics to effectively prioritise within their organisation and product domain, and uses their data mindset to coach, challenge and guide their team and stakeholders to make data driven decisions.

Displaying a strong understanding of the commercial drivers that determine the viability and longevity of a product while considering the market context and clear definition of the business benefit of products


The role holder engages in technical discussions, asks questions and challenges their teams to enable the creation of better technology solutions, utilising a variety of techniques to develop a broad understanding of the tech landscape and customer expectations of technology.


What I need to do

  • Lead our product management practice, developing product teams who deliver the vision of their products, and achieve our strategic business goals.
  • Brings together and present multiple product visions together within their domain into a single coherent overview.
  • Ensure teams are leveraging common thinking and technologies
  • Sets and defines outcomes and metrics for their principal areas.
  • Spots opportunities in the market within their domain.
  • Aligning product visions to end to end propositions/brands
  • Refine and optimise within defined capital and request support on priority or capacity contention
  • Work across divisions to shape dependent roadmaps and features, escalating where prioritisation trade off's are needed across teams.
  • Build strong relationships up to DD level to engage on the visions/roadmaps for their principal product areas.
  • Lead and coach a team of senior product managers directly within your domain.
  • Contribute and coach better product across the division using product competency and internal frameworks.
  • Take the lead to trial and embed new practices, principles and tools.
  • Accountable for nurturing talent in the team and foster a learning culture and high trust
  • Cultivate, develop and maintain 3rd party supplier relationships, supporting opportunity progress

Specifically focusing on:


  • Leading the commercial data product domain, working with internal and external teams to deliver 'product' data and products
  • Working alongside Commercial Change, Commercial Analytics and Commercial Tech to build a strategy for new data products, support existing products, and decommission legacy products
  • Working with the appropriate business prioritisation forums and ADA to build consistent roadmaps and deliver valuable data products
  • Lead 3rd party teams to decommission legacy data warehouses within the commercial data domain (including contract negotiation, governance and escalation, milestone reviews, stakeholder management and ongoing support)

How I will succeed:


  • Be the champion for product area, determining the right level or type of material to communicate the experience, benefits and longterm vision across a variety of audiences including development teams, stakeholders at all levels, partners and external parties
  • Be the arbitration and escalation point for prioritisation and trade offs within their product area to deliver the maximum value and return on capital.
  • Maintain a good level of awareness, interest and understanding of the existing and future end to end technology stacks/interfaces, including communicating clearly and coaching others on where and how to develop these technologies so they work seamlessly for customers and colleagues
  • Ensure that the team maintains a realistic 90day roadmap, as well as a prioritised and estimated full year backlog, regularly communicating progress and proactively managing risks/issues to remove blockers. Support the team in understanding future risks to mitigate.
  • Support communication and resolution of live product incidents and effectively prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of production issues
  • Maintain a highly collaborative relationship with engineering, support at all levels for teams to understand and work together to solve problems for our customers and the business
  • Collaborate with the Head of Product, and other Principal Product Managers across the business to ensure consistency, drive overall strategic business outcomes/shared objectives, and continuously
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