About Tesco Labs

Tesco labs is Tesco Technologys research and development team. Based in the Welwyn Garden City the team was conceived to shine light on future opportunities and challenges for Tesco.

Labs is a trusted source on emerging technology and is focused on prototyping and testing new ideas in technology areas that could significantly impact customers and the business in the future.

More information about the team can be found on our website:www.tescolabs.com.

The Role Product Manager Tesco Labs

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the roles key responsibilities and measures:

• Help to shape, define and prioritize our innovation prototype backlog.
• Lead product design sprints and collaborate with designers, engineers and researchers to achieve validating learning through creating prototypes and running experiments.
• Validate new ideas through analyzing evidence and data and carrying out primary research.
• Evangelize the product design process: champion a brilliant customer experience, and contribute to product design and UX standards to be adopted across the team.
• Monitor and understand the potential of new technologies and business models, identifying and developing new opportunities for Tesco.
• Develop the route of insight in to the team, working to nurture a problem & insight driven culture.
• Build relationships across the business to support the work that Labs does and share learning and outcomes.
• This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well organised, pragmatic and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.

Key Skills and Experience

Youll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Great interpersonal and presentation skills. Comfortable interacting with all levels of management.
• Tenacious can-do, will-do mentality. Enthusiastic about challenging the status quo and thinking expansively.
• Collaborative and open. Ready to listen and work closely with other team members to achieve great results.
• Creative, analytical and pragmatic. Able to provide recommendations and make decisions on behalf of the customer and business.
• Passionate about innovation, new technology and customer trends.
• Thrives in a lean and agile and small team working environment where success is largely judged on the quality and Innovative nature of customer products produced.
• Solid technical understanding and comfortable having technical conversations. Understands the possibilities of online technologies and knows when to challenge and ask questions.
• Able to demonstrate exposure to and experience of core development skills information architecture, user journeys, wireframe design, testing and design briefs.
• Bachelors degree or demonstrable experience required. Advanced degree a plus.

Personal

• Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter
• Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership
• Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.