Head of Product Media Agency

realtime optimisation and closed loop measurement; all powered by gen-AI based tools to build audiences, optimise creative and plan media campaigns.

This is more than a product leadership role - it's a chance to build and scale a Media Agency network that redefines what's possible in retail. You'll work at the intersection of commerce, data, and media, collaborating with engineering, commercial, and marketing teams to deliver scalable, privacy‑first solutions that drive measurable value for brands and agencies, enhancing the customer and client experience.

We're looking for a product leader who brings real experience of retail media and insights - someone who understands the practicalities and nuances of ad tech, the power of data monetisation, and the commercial levers that drive growth. If you're excited by the opportunity to influence the future of Nectar
360 as it continues with it's ambition to be market‑leading, look no further.

In Sainsbury's Tech, we power the UK's number 1 multi‑channel, multi‑brand retailer. Our Product teams are made up of inspired and multi‑discipline individuals who are empowered to solve hard problems in ways our customers and colleagues love and which serve the needs of our business.

Heads of Product play a critical leadership role at Sainsbury's and are expected to create, drive and deliver their vision for their relevant product domain to support our overall business strategy.

To land that, this role needs to be able to partner closely with senior stakeholders and be comfortable defining and interpreting relevant metrics to prioritise roadmaps - supporting and challenging your team and your business partners. Commercially astute, you can balance ROI against desirability, viability, feasibility and longevity of a Product. You'll be very comfortable working at the pace a retail business requires, whilst balancing the challenges a scaling tech platform needs to face in to - simplification, scalability, stability, capacity, legacy.

As a leader we want you to love coaching and developing your team, setting stretching goals and giving open, honest and supportive feedback to colleagues to help them realise their full potential. You'll thrive on delivering through your wider team.

• Ongoing development of the Product vision for your domain
• Lead and coach your wider team to deliver their vision of their Products, to achieve our strategic business goals.
• Ensure teams are leveraging common thinking and technologies
• Set and define outcomes and metrics for your principal area, aligned to business outcomes
• Spot opportunities in the market within your domain
• Refine and optimise within defined capital and lead through priority or capacity contention in your domain
• Establish and deliver a credible 1 year roadmap aligned to revenue goals, and set out a future 3 year vision in partnership with senior leaders
• Work across divisions to shape dependent roadmaps and features, escalating where prioritisation trade-offs are needed
• Contribute and coach better product across the division using product competency and internal framework
• Take the lead to trial and embed new practices, principles and tools
• Cultivate, develop and maintain 3rd party supplier relationships where relevant

• Champion your product area, clearly communicating the experience, benefits and long‑term vision to different audiences
• Lead prioritisation and clearly articulate trade‑off decisions to senior stakeholders in order to maximise value and return on investment
• Understand current and future technology choices, and help teams use them effectively
• Maintain clear near‑term roadmaps and full‑year backlogs, managing progress, risks and blockers
• Support clear communication and resolution of live product issues
• Build strong partnerships with engineering and experience design to solve customer and business problems
• Work in partnership with business stakeholders to deliver strategic capabilities and manage constraints
• Collaborate with product leaders to drive shared outcomes and improve product management across the division
• Develop a strong Product Management team and build the craft…