Information Security Product Manager - Identity and Access Management; IAM

Information Security Product Manager - Identity and Access Management (IAM) Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD

Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 16 January 2026
Requisition :

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 for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles.

We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

Information Security Product Manager - Identity and Access Management (IAM)

This role is hybrid and can be based from either our Coventry or London office and home.

As an Information Security Product Manager, you will be partnering closely with Head of Identity and Access Management. You will be responsible for being the liaison between Information Security, Technology and Business Teams, continually helping shape the vision of Information Security Products across the Group. You will be focused on understanding the security around Access Management, Identity verification and authorisation and will build and own the product roadmap as well as deliver the strategy for these products that support such as Privileged Access Management, Single Sign On and Multi Factor Authentication tools.

You will have a natural curiosity that you explore through experimentation and a flair for creative problem solving. You will lead a Team of Information Security Product Engineers and will be responsible for mentoring and coaching them.

As part of the Identity and Access Management Team, you will be owning Identity Security products focusing on Privileged Access Management, password storage and authentication solutions, such as Cyber Ark and Microsoft Entra.

Working in Agile teams, you will build highly collaborative relationships with your Engineering and business colleagues, supporting them in defining, delivering, and iterating features that delight our customers and stakeholders.

You will seek out a variety of data and insights to develop your understanding of the Information Security landscape using your product KPI’s to prioritise your roadmap & backlog effectively.

Working at Sainsbury’s, you will become part of a diverse team that celebrates individuality and has inclusion at its heart.

• Own the Identity Security product roadmap and set expectations with relevant Stakeholders. This will include leading new security or useability requirements gathering and elicitation, co-ordinating and prioritising requests across a number of teams and Stakeholders to realise key business outcomes
• Partner with Engineering teams and key stakeholders to deliver Information Security products or complex changes, utilising appropriate delivery methodology, including agile ways of working in line with Information Security priorities
• Building and maintaining a good relationship with Vendors and ensuring that Product renewals are done in time
• Spot and surface key risks and issues early, building an effective approach to mitigation, securing support of stakeholders as and when necessary
• Plan significant deployments across a number of Information Security products, ensuring relevant dependencies are identified and managed
• Create and maintain roll‑out schedules, track progress, update financial tracking (including Product Council), always ensuring key stakeholders are kept up-to-date and risks & issues are appropriately managed. Supporting with Audit actions and various other maturity assessments and staying on top of those.
• Managing a team. Which will involve coaching and prioritising Team members work and development to help them understand the rationale for a technical approach, surfacing and dealing with ambiguity and conflicting demands
• Conduct post…