Product Manager - Retail Media (12 Months Maternity Cover)


Company:	Tesco
Salary:	Competitive
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1GA
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	9 Sept 2026
Closing date:	27 Sept 2026

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Summary

About the role

Join our Media Experience Product team and play a key role in shaping the future of digital retail media. Working within a fast-paced, customer-focused environment, you’ll help deliver innovative products and experiences across multiple digital channels, including mobile apps and web platforms.

As a Product Manager, you’ll partner closely with Engineering, UX Design & Research, Analytics, and business stakeholders to identify opportunities, solve customer problems, and deliver measurable value. You’ll be responsible for defining product priorities, driving discovery and delivery activities, and ensuring your product strategy aligns with both customer needs and business objectives. Reporting to the Lead Product Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to influence product direction while helping to create engaging experiences for millions of customers.

You will be responsible for

• Defining and evolving product vision, strategy, roadmap, and priorities.

• Leading product discovery activities to identify customer and business opportunities.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful product enhancements and new features.

• Championing a user-centred and data-driven approach to decision making.

• Building a deep understanding of customer needs, behaviours, and market opportunities.

• Managing and prioritising the product backlog to maximise value delivery.

• Creating clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Supporting agile delivery processes, including sprint planning and key ceremonies.

• Driving stakeholder engagement and adoption of new product concepts and initiatives.

• Managing live product issues and helping ensure a seamless customer experience.

• Providing leadership and direction to cross-functional teams to achieve short and long-term product goals.

You will need

• Experience delivering successful digital products that create value for customers and the business.

• A strong understanding of modern product management and product discovery practices.

• Experience working closely with cross-functional teams including Engineering, UX, Research, Data, and Analytics.

• Ability to balance competing priorities and make data-informed decisions in complex environments.

• Knowledge of customer research methodologies and techniques for gathering user insights.

• Experience using quantitative and qualitative data to inform strategy, prioritisation, and product decisions.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.

• Familiarity with product prioritisation frameworks and dependency management.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly define requirements, user stories, and product outcomes.

• A customer-centric mindset combined with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

What’s in it for you?

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. [1] Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.

• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).

• Private medical insurance.

• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.

• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.

The above information is a shortened summary, refer to our policies for full details

References

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About Us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you’re just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we’re here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We’re proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, [1] click here  for more information. And if you’re interested in joining our team but don’t tick every box, don’t let that hold you back from applying.

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About us

Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.

It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.

We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.

But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.

We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day – helping us make a difference for our customers

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com

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