Senior Product Manager in England

Zeren have partnered with an exciting PE backed, data driven business to find them a Senior Product person.

Job Purpose

• Senior role within the organisation, with accountability Product Roadmap & Strategy for all Products in Pricing & Demand Data Offerings.
• Ensuring the right initiatives are prioritised to reflect company goals and vision, with measurable and trackable outcomes.
• Collaborating to capture feedback and continuously communicate priorities across the business to all key stakeholders and teams.

Responsibilities

Data Product Planning

• Lead and create vision and roadmap for strategic data propositions
• Create Strategic Product Vison & Product roadmaps, driven by customer feedback and validation
• Ensures that all Data Products are driven by customer insights, and needs are captured and acted on effectively and efficiently to drive Data Product roadmap priorities
• Accountable for clarity of scope, requirements, roadmaps and business cases that are agreed and aligned on by all relevant stakeholders
• Conducting customer interviews on a regular basis to capture key feedback on Data Products, as well as attending industry events to further build customer relationships & stay up to date on trends and trajectory

Inbound Data Strategy & Data Quality

• Relentless focus on driving data domain quality improvements in line with customer expectation and demand
• Own the prioritisation of customer led data improvements in line with Data Product Planning process above
• Close collaboration with Partnerships to drive priorities of 3rd party data requirements
• Close collaboration with Commercial to drive priorities of Carrier data feed requirements

Data Product Launches

• Ensures Strategic vision is executed via Data Product Roadmaps and funnels through into Delivery Channels, with clear launch plans
• Quarterly reviews with Finance to ensure ROI is captured and business case reviewed post product launches
• Lead on Data & Product training/webinars

Migration

• Working closely with PD Delivery Channels to ensuring key data enhancements are prioritized in Products, to ensure right benefits are available to aid migration

Stakeholder & Business Communication

• Engages with the broader Commercial, Marketing and Tech organizations to ensure that roadmap priorities are understood
• Presents roadmaps and new ideas in monthly Data Product Roadmap Forum (DPRF)
• Ensures data product metrics are captured and updated to track performance

Team Management

• Setting best practice across Product Managers to guide and coach on data domain and product processes
• Ensures PMs have quarterly 360 feedback and PDPs in place to drive performance

Functional Competencies & Capabilities Required

• Experience working to Product Operating Model, with Outcome focused approach and experience of working in Value Streams
• Ability to operate at senior level, ensuring teams have right level of engagement across the business
• Makes strategic decisions and brings wider picture together
• Uses understanding of customer priorities AND OAG strategy/priorities/economics to focus on what’s most important
• Influences and inspires stakeholders to action
• Is a 'go to' person for expert advice on their Product area
• Captures key insights from multiple information sources and shares them through the most appropriate method e.g. Squad, Company session, Teams etc.
• Develops and nurtures good working relationships across Product, Tech, Commercial and Marketing teams
• Enables good, quick and efficient decisions based on question, options, and a data-driven recommendation
• Strives for quality and excellence, and sets high standards for self and others
• Is comfortable with ambiguity and change, working at pace