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We are looking for an experienced Software Product Manager to join our client, based in Manchester.
As a Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in the evolution of our client’s market leading product, focussing on their customers’ most critical challenges, and helping bring to market impactful functionality for their community across their SaaS software and mobile app.
The selected Product manager will be responsible for the following deliverables:
- Collaborate with senior management and the broader product team to define the product roadmap, across core SaaS web application, add-on modules, mobile app and Outlook add-in
- Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of customer needs within target markets and key market dynamics
- Initiate and sponsor development projects, working with internal and external stakeholders to elicit requirements and develop elegant solutions to complex problems, always with a ‘customer first’ approach and an awareness of UX/UI considerations
- Collaborate with the UX/UI designer to proactively engage with customers and prospects to validate business problems and proposed solutions, prior to development
- Produce documented user stories for Business Analysts, the UX/UI designer and development teams and work closely with them to bring the requirements to fruition
- Input into feedback management (customers, prospects, internal staff) and feature prioritisation as part of the roadmapping process
- Work with key stakeholders and all other departments to communicate the product roadmaps, product content and seasonal release co-ordination
- Drive process improvement and change across the product organisation, leveraging best practices and interacting with key stakeholders in other departments (engineering, customer success, support etc)
- Serve as a product evangelist and subject matter expert to a range of audiences, including key stakeholders and other divisional product and technology teams
- Provide support for customer engagement initiatives – this could include joining meetings with key customers, presenting the product roadmap, running customer focus groups, contributing to webinars and demonstrating products
Required skills/ experience:
- 4+ years’ experience of product management within a software organisation
- Outstanding communication skills with the ability to engage and influence senior internal and external stakeholders to drive collaboration and alignment
- Highly organised, and able to self-manage and progress multiple projects and activities in parallel
- Proven excellence in solving problems with innovative and flexible solutions
- A relentless focus on customers and users, with an awareness of UX/UI considerations
- Ability to take effective decisions within fast-moving Agile delivery
- Ability to set deadlines and manage yourself and others to achieve them
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams, with a pragmatic approach
- Strong understanding of best practice product processes
- Ideally some experience of the professional services industry or project-based companies (agencies, architects, consultants, accountants etc)
Please apply ASAP or get in touch for more details on this excellent opportunity to join a growing client’s team with international presence.