<p><strong>Senior Product Manager – Data Platforms&nbsp;</strong><br/><br/><strong>In a Nutshell:</strong></p> <div style="margin-right:0px;"> Sainsbury's is embarking on an exciting journey of technological investment and innovation. With significant funding, we are enhancing our capabilities to lead in data management, analytics, and platform development. Our focus is on delivering high-quality data solutions that empower our customers and end users to make informed decisions and achieve our business objectives. We are proud to boast one of the most compelling data sets in the country, leveraging insights to build scalable, high-performance products that enhance customer experiences. In our inclusive and agile environment, you will have the opportunity to be curious, experiment, and tackle real-world challenges together with your colleagues, witnessing the impact of your work on hundreds of colleagues or millions of customers across the UK. We are seeking a talented and experienced Data Platform Product Manager.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br/><br/>We welcome applicants who bring expertise in advanced data capabilities and a strong understanding of cloud-native data platforms and modern data architecture. In this pivotal position, you will define and execute a strategic vision for Sainsbury’s data ecosystem—encompassing ingestion, storage, data dictionaries, and automation tools—to support data engineers, data scientists, and analytics use cases effectively.&nbsp;<br/>&nbsp; </div> <div style="margin-right:0px;"> Your role will involve close collaboration with engineering teams and data scientists, supporting senior stakeholders, and working alongside cross-functional groups while fostering a community spirit within Sainsbury's. You should demonstrate strong technical literacy and interpersonal skills that enable you to understand and translate complex data platform needs into actionable product strategies, driving successful implementation of solutions that align with our business goals. </div> <div style="margin-right:0px;"> If you are passionate about supporting innovation through collaboration and eager to make a meaningful impact, we would love to understand how you can contribute. </div> <div> &nbsp; </div> <p><strong>What I need to know:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>You’re a dab hand at data</strong> – you understand how it can be used to influence decisions and, extra points if you’ve worked with it before, for example managing data capabilities, AI or ML products and platforms.</li> <li><strong>You understand agile delivery and modern engineering practices</strong>, having worked directly with engineers, architects, and third parties, building real software.</li> <li><strong>You can land messages clearly to stakeholders at all levels</strong>, generating energy and driving consensus even when we’re having to make tough decisions.</li> <li><strong>You’ll support the strategy and develop specific roadmaps and backlogs for products</strong>, building in complete end-to-end customer experiences that deliver on agreed product metrics (OKRs).</li> <li><strong>Accountable for end-to-end delivery in Product Management</strong> for specific products with associated benefit/investment cases, ensuring activity is prioritised in line with the agreed product goals and metrics.</li> <li><strong>You’ll work closely and in collaboration with engineering, data scientists, architects and experience design</strong> to deliver outcomes, navigating competing priorities and influencing across teams. Spearheading the collective coaching effort within product and the wider business.</li> <li><strong>Lead the collaboration within both the core family team, other product teams and 3rd parties</strong> to launch new product features, maximising re-use across the business.</li> <li><strong>Evaluation of potential partner relationships</strong>; helping to identify necessary and/or desirable third-party technology to evaluate and select vendors.</li> <li><strong>You’ll support the communication and resolution of live product incidents</strong> and effectively prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of production issues.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What I need to show:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>You’re a people person.</strong> You thrive in collaborative environments, working closely with peers across engineering, data, and product to shape direction and deliver outcomes. You enjoy sharing knowledge, offering mentorship at the peer level, and helping to elevate the technical and product thinking of those around you.</li> <li><strong>Pragmatism, resilience and proactivity</strong> – there’s lots to do to get under the skin of in Data AI and ML Capabilities, lots of teams to work with and opportunities to improve how we manage and handle data to support our business aspirations and automations. You need to be a self-starter to push ahead and bring the teams with you, holding people to account and building productive relationships internally and externally.</li> <li><strong>You’re dedicated to value</strong>, balancing the customer, the tech and the business, and can articulate a compelling vision and goals for a group of products.</li> <li><strong>You are technically curious.</strong> You keep your finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the industry and are aware of key trends influencing sustainability and your team’s group of products.</li> <li><strong>You want to get stuck into our product community</strong>, driving it forward and continuously focusing on growing those around you, whilst continuously developing yourself.</li> <li><strong>Obsessed with the customer</strong>, you can create compelling strategies to improve and champion our customer experience and know how to prioritise and deliver on our outcomes.</li> </ul> <p>We are committed to making Tech a place where people love to work where diverse and engaged team make a purposeful contribution. Sainsbury’s is committed to being the most inclusive retailer, and flexible working including job sharing is welcomed wherever possible. In Tech we welcome such conversations and are proud to champion a diverse and inclusive culture.</p> <p>#LI-KF1</p>