Digital Product Manager
Posted Today by 1768274279
£430 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Warwick, Warwickshire
Summary: The Digital Product Manager is responsible for managing and developing products throughout their lifecycle, ensuring customer needs are met while achieving financial benefits. This role involves financial management, stakeholder engagement, and organizational change management, alongside defining and managing requirements. The position requires a strong understanding of product methodologies and agile practices, with a focus on delivering digital products in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders effectively.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage the full product lifecycle to meet customer needs and achieve financial benefits.
- Act as owner/champion for products or services.
- Select and adapt product development methods and tools.
- Analyze market/user research and usage data to identify needs and opportunities.
- Develop product propositions and prioritize product requirements.
- Coordinate trials and product launches, supporting communications and training.
- Advise on financial planning, budgeting, and costing.
- Monitor and manage expenditure against budgets.
- Identify stakeholder communication needs and facilitate open discussions.
- Develop and implement change management plans.
- Plan and drive requirements definition and prioritization activities.
- Provide guidance on methods and tools for effective adoption.
- Capture and disseminate technical and business information.
Key Skills:
- Influential and persuasive communication skills.
- Strong decision-making abilities under uncertainty.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently.
- Broad and deep business knowledge.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to translate technical information into understandable language.
- Understanding of current product methods and agile methodologies.
- Experience in delivering digital products in fast-paced environments.
- Experience in heavily matrixed organizations.
- Knowledge of strategic planning and financial management.
Salary (Rate): £430 per day
City: Warwick
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
*INSIDE IR35*.*HYBRID WORKING*
Product Management, Managing and developing products or services through their full life cycle from inception, growth, maturity, decline to retirement.
* Manages the full product lifecycle to ensure that, over time, the needs of customers/users continue to be met and that financial and other benefits are achieved.
* Acts as owner/champion for one or more products or services.
* Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate product development methods, tools, and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
* Analyses market and/or user research, feedback, expert opinion, and usage data to understand needs and opportunities.
* Develops product propositions and determines product positioning and variants for different customer and user segments. Prioritises product requirements and owns the product backlog.
* Coordinates trials and product launches and supports communications and training.
* Anticipates changes in customer/user needs; adapts products and creates product retirement and transitioning plans.
Financial Management, Supporting the effective use and control of financial resources.
* Advises on financial planning, budgeting, costing, accounting, and charging using recognised accounting practices and standards.
* Develops financial plans and forecasts. Monitors and manages expenditure and examines areas where budgets and expenditure exceed agreed tolerances.
* Contributes to the definition and operation of effective financial control and decision-making.
* Analyses actual expenditure, examines variances, and advises on options in the use of available budget.
Stakeholder and Relationship Management, Influencing stakeholder attitudes, decisions, and actions for mutual benefit.
* Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups
* Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables
* Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining, and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans
* Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding
* Facilitates business decision-making processes
Organisational Change Management, planning, designing, and implementing activities to transition the organisation and people to the required future state.
* Develops the change management approach and a change management plan in collaboration with sponsors, users, and project teams.
* Creates and implements action plans to ensure everything is ready for the change before going live.
* Acquires change management resources and develops their capabilities to deliver the required changes.
* Gathers feedback to allow timely improvements to the change management plan and approach.
* Assesses risks and takes preventative action.
* Develops and communicates tailored change management plans for senior stakeholder groups.
* Provides guidance and makes suggestions to support change sponsors.
Requirements definition and Management Managing, requirements through the entire delivery and operational life cycle.
* Plans and drives scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation activities for large, complex initiatives.
* Selects, adopts, and adapts appropriate requirements definition and management
methods, tools and techniques selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterative/agile) approaches.
* Obtains input from, and formal agreement to, requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders. Negotiates with stakeholders to manage competing priorities and conflicts.
* Establishes requirements baselines and ensures changes to requirements are investigated and managed.
* Contributes to the development of organisational methods and standards
Methods and tools, ensuring methods and tools are adopted and used effectively throughout the organisation.
* Provides advice, guidance, and expertise to promote adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards.
* Evaluates and selects appropriate methods and tools in line with agreed policies and standards. Implements methods and tools at programme, project and team level including selection and tailoring in line with agreed standards.
* Manages reviews of the benefits and value of methods and tools.
* Identifies and recommends improvements. Contributes to organisational policies, standards, and guidelines for methods and tools.
Captures and disseminates technical and business information
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
Influential and persuasive, you champion creativity and innovation. You are good at making decisions, even when you have incomplete information and time. You are highly self-motivated and able to work without a lot of direction.
Your business knowledge is broad and deep. You have strong verbal and written communication skills, underpinned by the understanding that effective communication usually involves listening more than speaking. You are good at identifying what colleagues are actually asking for. Crucially, you know how to translate information about Digital & IT into language everyone can understand.
A good understanding of current and emerging product methods, agile methodologies, and trends. You have significant experience of delivering digital products in a fast-paced environment, and experience within an agile delivery environment.
Experience of working within a heavily matrixed organisation, with the ability to drive for results.
Experience of strategic, investment and product planning ensuring alignment with business strategy and priorities, plus a good understanding of financial management, benefits management and realisation linked to business results.