The right candidate must have demonstrable experience as a Product Manager within complex organisations, leading and managing the strategy of a large and complex Product Group. You will be responsible for all products within the team, ensuring that all technical change and operations are delivered to standards, architectural solutions (aligned to enterprise architecture standards) and the management of the Product team's budget, and recharging of actual work completed to sponsoring divisions and projects.
Other responsibilities will include the management of mitigating actions and resolution for relevant product risks, issues and technical debt, strategic supplier relationship and management to assure the overall performance, governance and standards of external relevant suppliers and, on occasion, supporting operations out of hours as part of an on-call rota.
Key Skills & Experience
- Significant experience in leading internal and external technical teams to deliver across the spectrum of IT change and run capabilities.
- Significant experience in product strategy, architecture, innovation, risk & issue management, quality assurance and the business change requirements to introduce changes to IT products.
- Significant experience of managing a portfolio of applications / systems from a development and operational service perspective.
- Significant experience of leading Salesforce Technology teams
- Significant experience in estimating resource, cost and time requirements to deliver change and run activities across a suite of products.
- Effective influencing and negotiating at Exec level, communicating explicit and implicit trade-offs that impact the enterprise.
- Strong leadership skills, able to build relationships with senior leaders, collaborating across organisations and using various techniques to facilitate innovation and drive the right cultural values across internal and external teams
- Strategic and pragmatic thinker, focused on outcomes and the bigger picture with the confidence to engage constructively to challenge established approaches
- Generalist knowledge and exposure to agile practices, as well as DevOps and DevSecOps would be an advantage, as would generalist knowledge of enterprise-scale application architecture.
This is an exciting opportunity to engage on an initial 9 month contract. Due to the end-clients practices, candidates must engage via an FCSA accredited Umbrella company.
If interested, Apply Immediately!
