Description
Role: Product Manager
Hourly Rate: £400 - £600 per day Via Umbrella (Inside IR35)
Length of contract: 6 months
Location: London (work from home)
Our client a public sector body is currently recruiting for an experienced product manager to work in their team for a initial 6 month contract. The candidate will be able to work remotley for the role and the role will be classed as inside IR35.
- Working closely with key stakeholders and multiple customers to set, prioritise, and accept the work generated for the 'inventory management' product in the supply chain programme.
- The owner of the product roadmap, responsible for effective management of the product backlog.
- Significant experience in managing competing demand and requirements from multiple business units, to align product roadmap to strategic goals
- Experience of Product Management - owning the product roadmap
- Excellent knowledge of agile scrum/kanban methodology and practices
- Able to apply agile analysis techniques specifically for defining scope and backlog items (epic/feature/user stories), and acceptance criteria
- Asses value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with a maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
- Experience in using analysis tools & techniques including wireframes and business process modelling
- Good understanding of software development practices
- Experience of working with Supply Chain ERP systems, preferably Oracle Supply Chain Cloud.
- Specifically experience of inventory management, including lot and batch traceability
- Able to produce high quality supporting artefacts to assist the team in development of the feature
- Demonstrable ability to take ownership and make decisions in a fast paced environment
- Proactive in problem solving and ensuring the right people are involved
- Able to facilitate meetings (eg lead virtual workshops to elicit requirements) within business and technical teams
- Act as a liaison between the business stakeholders and technical delivery teams translating concepts into language that is easily understood by both parties
- Strong communication skills with business and technical stakeholders
- Experience managing delivery through with supplier development teams
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams to deliver on a common goal
- Demonstrable experience working in environments with technical debt/refactoring and designing tactical to strategic roadmaps and aligning requirements to this