Head of Product

About the role

As the Head of Product (HOP) for Supply Chain (SC) - Supplier Ordering & Tesco Connect, you will work at the centre of Tesco’s Supply Planning, Ordering and Collaboration Technology. With empowerment and ownership, you will help shape the long-term product Vision, Strategy and Roadmap to continuously evolve the Supplier Ordering and Collaboration domain. You will lead a talented group of product managers and development teams to help transform and modernise the Supplier domain, evolve the product capabilities to ensure it is purpose-fit and future-fit, whilst identifying opportunities to deliver in-year savings and future value. You will help ensure we stay competitive in the market and relevant for our suppliers / partners. You will work with your peers across Tesco to ensure broader Product and Business alignment across priorities and platforms. You will contribute to the wider Supply Chain Product leadership team as well as the wider product community at Tesco. This is a senior product leadership role, reporting in to the Director of Product for Fulfilment & Supply Chain. You will partner with Heads of Software Development and Senior Technical Programme Managers....Less

You will be responsible for

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Product Leadership

• Establish long-term product vision and roadmap for supply chain ordering and collaboration platforms, aligned with Tesco’s strategic and business objectives.
• Transform and modernise the Supplier Ordering and Collaboration domain, evolve the product capabilities to ensure it is purpose-fit and future-fit.
• Leverage your domain knowledge to manage the product lifecycle for you domain, developing and maturing new capabilities and decommission older, more legacy systems.
• Identifying opportunities to deliver savings and benefits, ensuring we can differentiate in the market and stay relevant for our suppliers.
• Be responsible for achieving or exceeding agreed product KPIs improvements across all the products owned / managed by your team.
• Contribute to defining the business / value case for transformation and identify new capabilities that need to be built, empowering your Product Leads.
• Use leadership and negotiation skills to define and influence outcomes both within and outside of the organisation to achieve the best for Tesco customers, colleagues, suppliers and partners.
• Handle conflicting priorities well, communicate clearly trade-offs and understand how to drive a high level of focus and excellence.

Team Leadership & Growth

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Product Development & Delivery

Data-Driven Prioritization & Insights

Innovation & Technology

You will need

Required Experience & Skills

Product Management Leadership

Strategic & Analytical Thinking

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Agility In Technology Excellence