Staff Product Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 08 January 2026
Requisition ID: 400043551
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.
As a Staff Product Manager in Commercial Food, you will work closely with a variety of teams across commercial, digital, supply chain, logistics and retail to advance several strategic initiatives by building products that enhance our customer experience and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of our commercial capabilities. Our commercial platforms enable product setup, supplier partnerships, space and range optimisation, pricing and promotions, and display. They enable Sainsbury’s to serve millions of our customers, and we aim to offer an increasingly optimised customer experience. You’ll be shaping our future technology to help create the right proposition for Sainsbury’s customers wherever and however they might choose to shop with us. You’ll transform our ways of working and how we make decisions. You’ll enable connected planning and operational efficiency.
More about the role (Staff Product Manager)
- This role is placed in Commercial Core area (incl. Food, General Merchandise and Clothing) , spanning some of the highest profile areas such as Price, Promotion, Range, Space, Locations, Item, Supplier and Cost. The Commercial products you'll be working with are in operation 24/7 across every division of Sainsbury's to ensure we're providing the right teams with the right data necessary for our customers - from moving products around our network to the allergen information that gets presented to customers.
- You'll be responsible for the managing the success of our strategic Commercial Data Services. Specifically focused on owning our strategy to ensure the services are modern, flexible and fit for purpose in an ever changing commercial environment.
- You'll work very closely with the Senior Product Managers/ owners of the Data Services to fulfil their roadmaps. You'll also work closely with engineering and delivery to ensure initiatives are on track, supporting teams reduce their dependencies, risks and blockers.
- You'll work closely with a wide array of Commercial Data Services consumers such as Supply Chain, Logistics, Digital and Finance - prioritising and delivering key initiatives to drive value to Sainsbury's.
- You'll work with both commercial and technical stakeholders to share and deliver on our vision; steering the direction of development, interacting frequently with senior leaders, and working closely with a range of teams to ensure activity is prioritised in line with the agreed product goals and metrics.
- You’ll be responsible for the coordination and alignment with other product teams to develop and launch new products and to continually improve customer experience.
- Always considering the market context and ever-evolving technology and legislative environment, you’ll clearly articulate the business benefit of potential and current products, while tracking both effort and value delivery, to identify opportunities for cost reduction and quality improvement.
More about you
- You are strategic thinker, comfortable with systems thinking, strategy and long-term planning
- You are comfortable influencing variety of senior stakeholders, working cross-functionally and connect the dots
- Possess knowledge and understanding of a retail business and technology landscape, and how to maximise the value that commercial products can and will add.
- Clear understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices.
- Knowledge of product development principles and methodologies.
- Demonstrate great value behaviours and a growth mindset coupled with drive, determination, and desire.
- Judgement to make sometimes difficult and complex decisions at pace - comfortable dealing with ambiguous situations and helping drive toward clarity.
- An ability to creatively solve problems and enthusiasm for delivering change through people and technology.
- A high level of team contribution, seeking opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus - a role model effective collaboration.
As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:
- Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat
- Holiday allowance
- Bonus scheme
- Pension plan
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more
Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.
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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).
