Description
Director, Central Product Management - Contract - £700 PD
This position is responsible for commercialising product innovation and maintaining competitiveness through cost/vendor management and creative commercial approach to extract value. This means extending existing product and proposition lines, as well as developing new proposition horizons based on vertical and market demand. The role is meant to inform and be informed by the vertical and local market strategies. As such, there is need for close collaboration at pace with the market leadership teams (commercial and product & marketing) as well as central departments such as Product Innovation, International Marketing, Client Solutions, Global Service Delivery & Sales Enablement, all within a Matrix organisation.
Skills/Experience
- Commercially minded
- Significant product management, partnerships, contractual and vendor management experience
- Significant marketing experience
- Ability to create and map customer journeys
- Knowledge of product life cycle management for growth and profitability optimisation
- Experience of procurement and managing supplier contracts and vendor relationships
- Superb collaboration and stakeholder management skills across diverse functions
- High levels of financial acumen, with proposition pricing experience
- Experience of managing complex projects
- Has worked extensively in a digital, mobile and app based context
Job Responsibilities
- Be an ambassador of the customer proposition
- Effectively build strong relationships and networks based collaboration and shared trust and respect
- Effectively manage complex relationships with external vendors to the benefit of the organization
- Manage cost reductions and profitability
- Operational excellence of product proposition delivery
- Key liaison for all aspects of the customer journey for product propositions
- Motivate and manage a small central team
- Work effectively across the Matrix, and across markets
- Contribute to manager level hiring decisions
- Profitability analysis
- Product quality and performance review
- Business modelling
Requirements
- Educated to a degree level
- Product/Marketing qualification is desirable