Senior Digital Product Manager – London – Hybrid - £100,000 + excellent benefits & career progression
Overview :
An exciting opportunity has arisen with a global insurance company for a Senior Digital Product Manager.
As the Senior Digital Product Manager, you will drive product strategy, product roadmap development and delivery/operation of Enterprise Data Product. You will execute digital initiatives, including third party products, key data warehouse and enterprise BI Technologies.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Drive the vision for Enterprise Data within the organisation.
- Partner with business stakeholders to create the product roadmap across all areas for London Market, UK Regional and International lines of business.
- Foster close relationships with key stakeholders to keep alignment with the product strategy and roadmap, including the Chief Data Office and business areas.
- Translate roadmap iterations into actionable Features, User Stories and Releases for the engineering team to develop and represent the users on completion of these work items.
- Plan, prioritize, and manage the product features and requirements from conceptual stages through product life cycles to optimise revenue and meet operational, financial and corporate objectives in their business segment.
- Run product management ceremonies – Key Stakeholder Meetings, Backlog Refinement Events, Sprint Reviews etc.
- Collaborate with the engineering and project management teams to plan releases and ensure consistent agile execution of product plans that result in product delivery on time and in budget.
- Perform market research, market validation and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities where reporting can drive business value.
- Engage business partners to develop and execute action plans to address gaps.
- Assist with preparation of business cases (financial/ROI) analysis to quantify & determine the value to the company of a current or potentially new system/application.
- Creation of request for proposals for Capital; where applicable.
Essential skills & experience:
- Ability to establish credibility, influence and effectively build and manage complex relationships internally and externally with all relevant stakeholders, business users and product vendors.
- Understanding of usability and user experience best practices.
- Understanding of product lifecycle development (Agile).
- Ability to evaluate, analyse and interpret the voice of the customer through concise and eloquent user stories.
- Ability to be strategic and tactical in day to day interactions.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Good consensus building skills.
- Ability to convey technical concepts in a clear, understandable way.
- Ability to overcome internal barriers and negotiate resource constraints to produce successful digital initiatives.
- Excellent/ proven communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to establish credibility, influence and effective working relationships with peers and stakeholders.
- Comfortable interacting and partnering at all levels across the organization including off-shore teams.
- Ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, deadline-driven and rapidly changing environment.
- Happy to travel within the UK.
- Demonstrable experience in the management of product backlog(s) within an agile environment.
- Experience writing user stories and/or defining digital content experiences.
- Knowledge of the regulatory reporting landscape within the UK Insurance market.
- Experience of Data Governance frameworks and how this interacts with the Enterprise Data Warehouse.
- An understanding of data concepts, including data products, star schemas, relational and non-relational databases, and related technologies (ETLs) and how they underpin the data that customers need would be advantageous.
- Project/ Senior level Business Analysis or prior Product Management experience or qualifications required.
- Knowledge & skills would typically be acquired through 3 to 5 years of related experience.
Desirable
- CII/ ACII qualifications would be advantageous.
- Data qualifications would be advantageous (Computer/ Data Science)
- Technical Qualifications would be advantageous (Snowflake, SQL etc.)
Package:
- £100,000 depending on skills & experience
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increases to 30 days per year of service)
- 10% pension – they will also match your contribution on top
- Private medical and dental including family cover
- Gym membership
- Discounts – travel, retail, food and many more
- L&D – Career development plans
- Training courses provided by inhouse training academy