Senior Product Manager – Propositions (Space, Range & Display Commercial Technology)

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 to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you’ll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We’ve made significant investment in the standards and principles that shape how we work. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.

Senior Product Manager – Propositions (Space, Range & Display Commercial Technology)

In a nutshell

At Sainsbury’s Tech, we power the UK’s leading multi-channel, multi-brand retailer. As a Senior Product Manager in Propositions, you will own a defined capability area that determines how products are ranged, placed and displayed across our stores. Reporting to the Group Product Manager, you will be the day-to-day product authority, turning Commercial and Retail strategy into value-led roadmaps and joined-up tools that remove manual, parallel and duplicated processes.

Space, Range & Display

You will own one or more products within the SRD portfolio, spanning three layers:

• Foundations: trusted data on space, equipment, display and range
• Decisioning: macro and micro space, range and assortment planning and clustering across Food, General Merchandise & Tu Clothing
• Execution: display and fixture optimisation and planogram creation, getting commercial decisions into stores consistently

What I need to do

• Set and champion the long-term product vision, owning a live roadmap and prioritised backlog aligned to SRD strategy and Commercial priorities.
• Turn business pain points into clear user stories and prioritise through the lens of effort and value, balancing new features with tech health, legislation and risk.
• Act as a leader within a multidisciplinary Agile squad (Analysts, Engineers, UX/UI Designers), working across BAU and programme teams and helping shape the right team structure as priorities change.
• Set yearly and quarterly OKRs, track and communicate the value delivered, and build business cases with Finance and Commercial partners.
• Build strong relationships across Commercial, Retail, Supply Chain, Property and Technology, manage dependencies, and provide senior governance forums with clear updates, decisions required and feasibility and affordability trade-offs.
• Support transformation change teams for launch readiness, launch & adoption with user groups, working with engineering on DevOps processes and live incidents.
• Track industry developments, identify innovation opportunities, and support Product Managers and Associate Product Managers.

How I will succeed

• Be the recognised product authority for your capability area, trusted by Commercial, Retail and Engineering partners.
• Deliver technology that helps colleagues make better range, space and display decisions and execute them accurately in store.
• Demonstrate measurable value in customer satisfaction, availability, colleague productivity, cost savings and commercial performance, balancing short-term priorities with long-term transformation.

What I need to know

• Proven experience owning enterprise-scale technology products through the full lifecycle, with strong product management and Agile grounding.
• Knowledge of retail technology (Food, General Merchandise or Clothing operations advantageous), with experience of, or appetite to learn, space, range, assortment, planogram or category management technologies.
• Experience in large-scale transformation programmes, ideally with third-party vendors and platforms.
• Comfortable using data, product metrics and business cases to inform decisions and track value.

Key competencies

• Customer focus: keeps customers and store colleagues at the heart of every decision.
• Strategic vision: sets a clear direction linked to SRD and business strategy and explains why it matters and why now.
• Technology judgement: balances new capability, tech health and risk, and explains trade-offs to non-technical leaders.
• Evidence-led decisions: defines success measures and uses data to prioritise and track value.
• Leadership and influence: aligns teams and senior stakeholders around a shared roadmap.
• Commercial value: links investment to measurable outcomes, balancing effort, return and cost.

We are committed to making Tech a place where people love to work, with diverse and engaged teams making a purposeful contribution. Sainsbury’s is committed to being the most inclusive retailer, and flexible working, including job sharing, is welcomed wherever possible.

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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:

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.
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.

Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).