Product Manager - Digital Nectar Experience

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.

Product Manager – Digital Nectar Experience 
 
We are a multi-channel, multi-brand business serving millions of customers every day, with the UK’s largest loyalty scheme and an evolving range of digital platforms. Together, these generate more than 1.2 billion transactions each year, creating a scale, richness and complexity of customer data that few organisations can match. 
 
We use these insights to build scalable, high-performing products that make shopping easier, more rewarding and more personalised for our customers. In an inclusive and agile environment, you’ll have the space to be curious, test new ideas and solve meaningful customer problems—with the opportunity to see your work used by millions of people across the UK. 
 
About the role 
 
As Product Manager for the digital Nectar experience, you’ll help shape how millions of customers engage with Nectar across our app and wider digital ecosystem. 
 
You’ll own the roadmap for your product area, balancing improvements to today’s customer experience with longer-term opportunities to modernise and evolve how we engage our customers. 
 
A key part of the role will be using experimentation and rapid learning to improve the experience. You’ll work with Engineering, Experience Design, Analytics, Data Science, Marketing and other product teams to identify customer problems, test potential solutions and scale the ideas that deliver measurable customer and commercial value. 
 
You’ll help us make better use of customer data throughout the product development process, from identifying opportunities and shaping hypotheses to targeting experiences and evaluating their impact. You don’t need to be a data or experimentation specialist, but you should be confident working with specialists, interpreting evidence and using it to make product decisions. 
 
This is a highly collaborative role. Many of the outcomes you’ll own will depend on capabilities or decisions outside your immediate team, so you’ll need to build strong relationships, influence other teams’ priorities and create alignment around shared outcomes. You’ll be equally comfortable using data to support a recommendation and applying sound product judgement where the evidence is incomplete. 
 
You’ll also bring a perspective on modern app product management, emerging customer expectations and new technology, always beginning with a genuine problem and a clear measure of value. 
 
What you’ll do 
 
- Build, maintain and champion a product roadmap, connecting strategic priorities to clear customer and commercial outcomes. 
- Own and manage a prioritised, estimated backlog, making transparent decisions about sequencing, value, effort, risk and dependencies. 
- Develop a deep understanding of customers and their behaviour, combining qualitative research, product analytics, customer data and commercial insight. 
- Help define product outcomes, success measures and hypotheses, ensuring teams understand the problems they are solving and how success will be measured. 
- Design and run data-driven experiments at scale, using rapid learning loops to test assumptions, improve the customer experience and inform future investment. 
- Work closely with Loyalty Marketing, Analytics, Data Science and other data teams to incorporate customer data and insight into product discovery, prioritisation and evaluation. 
- Partner with Engineering and Experience Design throughout discovery and delivery to create intuitive, accessible and technically sustainable app experiences. 
- Coordinate post-launch measurement and evaluation, establishing whether products work as intended and deliver measurable customer and business value. 
- Use evidence from product performance and experimentation to recommend whether we should iterate, scale, stop or change direction. 
- Work with Product Managers and teams across the business to align priorities, manage dependencies and influence the roadmaps needed to deliver shared outcomes. 
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, clearly communicating product choices, progress, risks and trade-offs. 
- Track the effort and value associated with the roadmap, identifying opportunities to simplify solutions, reduce costs and improve return on investment. 
- Collaborate with internal teams and third parties to launch new capabilities and product experiences. 
- Help identify and assess potential technology partners, working with Technology and Commercial teams to evaluate suitability, value and strategic fit. 
- Monitor developments in retail, loyalty, mobile apps, experimentation, personalisation and emerging technology, translating relevant insights into practical opportunities. 
 
About you 
 
You’ll be a product manager with strong core product skills and experience developing customer-facing digital products, ideally within a mobile app or similarly complex digital environment. 
 
You’ll bring: 
 
- Experience owning a roadmap, translating wider business goals into prioritised product outcomes. 
- Experience developing customer-facing app or digital products, with a good understanding of modern mobile experiences and customer expectations. 
- Practical experience running data-driven experiments at scale and using the results to inform product decisions. 
- An understanding of experimentation methods, product analytics and performance measures. You do not need to be a technical data specialist. 
- Confidence working with Analytics, Data Science and other specialist teams to turn customer data into usable product insight. 
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to create alignment across teams you do not directly manage. 
- The ability to communicate decisions using a combination of evidence, clear product thinking and compelling storytelling. 
- Experience working collaboratively with Engineering and Experience Design in an agile product environment. 
- The ability to move comfortably between strategic thinking and delivery detail, maintaining a strong understanding of your product and its wider ecosystem. 
- Confidence operating in uncertainty, identifying the next best action or experiment when the complete answer is not yet known. 
- A highly collaborative approach, bringing people together around shared problems and outcomes. 
- An understanding of technical product development principles, dependencies and the role of reusable platform capabilities. 
- Curiosity about emerging technology and modern product practices 
- Experience in retail, loyalty, personalisation or other high-volume customer environments would be valuable, but it is not essential. 
 
What we offer 
 
As well as extensive on-the-job learning and opportunities to develop your career, you’ll receive: 
 
- Colleague discount across Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat 
- Holiday allowance 
- Bonus scheme 
- Pension plan 
- Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more 
 
Work–life balance is important to us, so we offer colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust our colleagues to make thoughtful decisions about how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, while continuing to deliver against our shared business goals. 

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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 10% 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, 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. 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)."