Senior Product Manager – Product Set-up and Maintenance

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.

Please Note - This is a 12 month FTC position

Argos is one of the UK’s most recognised retailers, helping customers get the products they need quickly, conveniently and with confidence. As we deliver against Transform to Win and our ambition for More Argos, More Often, our commercial technology plays a critical role in making it easier to grow our range, improve product data and support faster, better decisions. The systems and processes that underpin product set-up, enrichment and maintenance are central to that journey, enabling suppliers and colleagues to create, complete, maintain and trust the product information customers rely on.

In an increasingly agentic world, where customers expect accurate answers, recommendations and journeys across every channel, the quality and completeness of our product data will be critical to the success of Argos. We are looking for a talented Senior Product Manager to join the team on a 12-month fixed-term basis and help accelerate this evolution through automation, AI-enabled ways of working and outcome-led product delivery.

As Senior Product Manager for product set-up and maintenance, you will lead business-critical capability that supports how Argos creates, enriches, maintains and brings products to market. You will set clear direction, shape an outcome-led roadmap and guide a cross-functional team through discovery, delivery and adoption, balancing near-term delivery with the longer-term evolution of product data, automation and AI-enabled ways of working across Argos.

You will work closely with engineering, architecture and commercial business teams to align priorities, make informed trade-offs and ensure product set-up and maintenance capability delivers practical value for suppliers, colleagues, customers and the future growth of Argos.

• You can lead product strategy and roadmap direction. You will set the vision and roadmap for product set-up and maintenance capability, aligning outcomes across product, engineering, architecture and commercial teams.
• You build clear, outcome-led roadmaps and backlogs. You will translate strategy into specific roadmaps, 90-day plans and prioritised backlogs that improve end-to-end colleague and supplier experiences, increase the accuracy and completeness of product data, and deliver against agreed product metrics.
• You own customer and business value. You will use insight, data and stakeholder input to make confident prioritisation decisions, secure support through the right governance and keep focus on the outcomes that matter most, including trusted product data that supports better customer journeys, search, recommendations and future agentic experiences.
• You are accountable for end-to-end product delivery. You will ensure activity is prioritised in line with agreed goals and metrics, moving from discovery and decision-making through to launch, adoption and continuous improvement, with a strong focus on simplifying workflows, reducing manual touchpoints and embedding automation where it creates measurable value.
• You communicate progress and manage risks proactively. You will maintain a realistic near-term roadmap…