Product Manager

About the role

As a Product Manager in the People Technology stream, you will take end-to-end ownership of selected HR-related products and services, such as Payroll, Time & Attendance, or Self-Service tools.

• You will be responsible not only for coordinating delivery and stakeholder alignment, but also for hands-on work — shaping how business needs are translated into product improvements, designing functional solutions, and actively participating in testing and validation.
• You will work closely with other Product Managers in the stream, sharing responsibilities across products. While you will lead coordination and administration for your assigned products, you will also contribute hands-on to others — collaborating on solution design, backlog refinement, and delivery activities.
• Your role will span strategic planning, backlog management, stakeholder engagement, and vendor collaboration, ensuring that product development aligns with business needs, legislative requirements, and strategic priorities.
• Your key partners will include Technology Programme (Project) Managers, Engineering teams, Business teams, Vendors, and Global Technology teams.

We work in hybrid mode and meet 3 times a week at the office in Prague.

You will be responsible for

As a Product Manager in Technology, HR area you will support Tesco CE (CZ, SK, HU and PL) in:

Product Ownership & Strategy

• Define and evolve product vision and roadmap across HR systems and contribute to the overall HR stream product strategy.
• Aligning CE product strategy with global initiatives and vendor innovation.
• Track and maintain product and project backlogs (functional, essential, legislative).
• Facilitate quarterly planning (4Q), roadmap presentations, and updates.
• Accountable for the performance/ adoption of the product and work towards achieving the Outcomes and Key Results (OKRs)
  Understand trade-offs in delivery, using experience and influencing skills to drive consensus with our Business, Technology and Engineering teams to obtain the best value and solution.

Coordination & Moderation

• Lead prioritization discussions with stakeholders and vendors.
• Moderate delivery scope agreements, backlog grooming, and feasibility reviews.
  Organize and facilitate demos, backlog and priority discussions, and other relevant meetings.

Product Delivery & Continuous Improvement

• Be expert in Product(s) functionality, perfectly understand business processes using the Product(s)
• Collect Business needs/opportunities on Product(s) functionality from your Business partners in High level, help them with more detailed description of need, value and benefit.
• Actively collect Feedback on Product functionality from End users (onsite in stores, distribution centers and head office) and Bring own ideas into Product improvement backlog, ongoing.
• Be part of technical discussion between technology teams and vendors (infrastructure, security, development, …)
  Coordinate and own continuous improvement initiatives and benefit evaluations.

Projects participation

• Contribute to Project delivery lifecycle, covering Product Sub-Delivery in project.
• Be Responsible for Project activities: Requirements gathering, design, testing, demo& feedback, defects resolution with vendor, training, deployment, live testing functional consultancy, inputs to communication and training materials and hypercare.
• Project delivery in short iterations, small increments (Releases delivery, Scrum, or Kanban) or in larger projects, using Traditional methodologies, combined with Agile delivery techniques.

Compliance & Legislation

• Collaborate with vendors and Tesco Legal on system-related legislative requirements.
  Coordinate delivery of legislative updates in HR systems.

Testing & Support

• Coordinate functional and UAT testing and occasionally support testing activities.
• Provide functional consultancy for post-implementation support and major incident assessments.

Documentation & Communication

• Prepare and maintain user guides and process documentation.
  Support change & comms activities, including stakeholder mapping and training.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with internal teams, vendors, and external partners.
• Lead discussions on product design, delivery timelines, and strategic alignment.
• Coach peers and other roles, teaching where required, on methodologies of product management.
• Actively contribute to continuous improvement in team ways of working, explore opportunities to adopt trends and new concepts in product delivery in your area.
• Play active role in technology Product community.

You will need

3+ years in Product management or Business Analysis or Project management in an Agile environment.

HR area experience is highly beneficial.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Proven record of accomplishment in delivering technology Products, using agile methods.
• Strong coordination, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong leadership skills – communication, influencing skills, prioritization, decision making.
• Ability to build credible relationships and influencing mid-senior management.
• Strong vendor management and negotiation skills
• Open-minded, independent, and practical thinking. Enthusiastic, and responsive person with the ability to plan and organize, team-player.
• Ability to demonstrate resilience during change and continue delivery.
• Experience with planning and risk management
• Ownership and commitment towards assigned Products.
• Experience with Software delivery in agile environments, understanding of end-to-end development lifecycle.
• Able to understand and facilitate technology product discussion to be able to foresee the impact on dependencies, delivery timelines and implementation plans.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, great presentation, 'storytelling' and persuasion skills (English)
• Problem solving and good analytical skills.
• Fluent Czech/Slovak and English languages.
• Willingness to travel occasionally (across Europe)

ADVANTAGE WOULD BE

• Retail Technology Awareness, HR system experience
• Knowledge of Technologies and Cyber Security
• Experience with work in international environment
  Hungarian language

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Whats in it for you?

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all):

• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus - based on both individual and business performance
• Sick leave Compensation
• 1 extra week of annual leave above your legal entitlement of 4 weeks of annual leave of paid leave to support our well-being and family life
• Pension insurance contribution
• Cafeteria benefit system & Multisport card
• Training and Development Plan, supported by certified training and learning platforms like Udemy, Udemy Pro and LinkedIn
• Referral Bonus
• Flexible work time

About Us

Tesco Technology was established in Prague to support Tesco's retail business in Central Europe and across the Tesco Group. What began as a regional center over 25 years ago has evolved into a modern, forward-thinking team, driving innovation and digital transformation throughout the region.

With operations in the UK, Ireland, India, Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic, we're committed to delivering great value to our customers every day.

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