Senior Product Manager - 12m FTC
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 27 November 2025
Requisition ID: 400037963
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
Senior Product Manager - 12m FTC
Want to work on a customer facing app using best in class agile processes with reach to millions of customers?
Want to solve interesting problems at huge scale?
Want to learn from the best and be challenged to think differently every day?
Want to work hand in hand with development teams where you drive success and return to the business?
Want the flexibility to work at home and in an office where it helps you meet your work and life commitments?
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. Sainsbury’s app team has an ambition to be a market-leading digital experience which will make shopping groceries at Sainsbury’s a joyful and effortlessly fast experience.
In this Senior Product Manager role, you will be part of the Food Experiences team and will be responsible for the bottom of funnel within the Sainsbury’s app. This encompasses our outcomes to reduce the time it takes for our customers to shop with us, making sure that the Sainsbury’s app offers our customers the best value for them at the right moment, and finally our mission to make all of our core repeated journeys seamless.
In this role you will be working directly with an App Engineering team and designer, and you will be hyper focused on delivery and pace together, aligned to our metric driven outcomes. You will work closely with our Analytics and research teams and put customers at the heart of your decision making. Once changes go live, you will make sure to iterate and improve in line with agreed product metrics linked to the wider business strategy.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work on the Sainsbury’s customer facing app and will mean exposure to senior leadership in key forums.
What I need to do:
- Supporting end-to-end delivery by maintaining a 90-day product roadmap, full year big rock view, as well as a prioritised and estimated FY backlog, including regularly communicating progress and proactively managing risks.
- Coordinate and report post-launch evaluation to validate that products work for customers or colleagues as designed and value is delivered, measured by appropriate metrics and through post investment reviews as needed
- Track both effort and value delivery identifying opportunities for cost reduction, using this insight to inform prioritisation of opportunities for the product.
- Collaborate with other product teams and 3rd parties to launch new product features
- Champion the needs of our customers and colleagues, using insight from multiple data-sources to drive value-led prioritisation
- Monitor relevant industry trends and engage both internal and external teams as appropriate to build shared insight
How I will succeed:
- Apply insight, data and research to ensure your team are focused on making the biggest difference for customers and the business as defined by agreed product metrics (OKRs)
- Prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of live product issues as required.
- Build a highly collaborative relationship with engineering, working together at all levels to work together to solve problems for our customers and the business
- Consistently engaging and motivating people with a variety of perspectives around the roadmap for your product; facing into difficult conversations and giving others licence to challenge your perspective
- Creating a positive impact with internal and external audiences, ensuring senior stakeholder advocacy for the product
- Creative problem solving, enthusiasm for supporting delivery of change through people and technology
What I need to know:
- Knowledge and understanding of a grocery retail business, the technology landscape, and how to maximise the value that products can and will add
- Understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices
- Knowledge of technical product development principles and methodologies
What I need to show:
- You are bold, curious, resilient and empathetic and able to connect with stakeholders and the team in an authentic way. What’s more, you’ll be comfortable with making decisions, challenging assumptions and taking risks
- You thrive on translating business goals, technology strategies and market knowledge into a product roadmap that prioritises delivery of value and enables future business agility
- You really get the customer and can translate requirements into clear user stories and sprint goals for the engineering teams
- You’re technically curious, having worked directly with engineers, architects and third parties building real software. You ask the right questions so that you can help others understand your product
- You’re courageous and understand that failing and learning isn’t really failing at all. You’ll encourage the team to experiment and try new and exciting solutions
- A people person. You’ll build great relationships. We need people who want to help us build a brilliant team culture and make Sainsbury’s a great place to work.
Essential criteria:
- Extensive industry experience as a Product Manager
- Ability to extract insights from qualitative and quantitative research
- Proficient in turning Product thinking, (including market insight, app analytics, and customer problem gathering and stakeholder workshops) into Product strategy and visioning
- Able to clearly articulate short and long term strategy & vision through strategic packs, roadmaps and backlogs
Resources available to me:
- Product competency framework and community of practice
- Learning and development opportunities
- Specific budget for products (budget ownership sits with PPM Line Manager)
What decisions I can make:
- All decisions related to delivering the roadmap for the product
- Prioritisation and value return across the product
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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
