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

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits, including:

• Colleague discount: 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day
• Pensions scheme and life cover
• Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary
• Annual holiday allowance
• Season ticket loans
• Interest-free car loan of up to £10k
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health cash plans
• Pay advance
• Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Private healthcare
• Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave