Description
Job Title: Product Manager
Location: Sunbury/UK
Key Skills/Knowledge:
- Experience in Risk and Insurance, Audit, incubation and launchpad.
- Experience running an IT operations team or teams - responsible for delivering reliable and commercially efficient operations
- Experience of an IT business interface role - successfully balancing business demands with enterprise drivers, being the face of IT to the business
- Experience of leading IT projects - securing investment, running governance, selecting solutions and vendors, planning, and running through to operations.
Plus
- A real passion for technology and its power to drive business efficiency, value and innovation
- Experience leading a team or teams with a focus on growing and developing talent and building an inclusive culture
- Experience in managing vendors and relationships in both Matrix and line management models in a geographically diverse environment.
- An understanding of the business or functional area which the Service supports - its strategy, its market, its challenges, its processes
- An understanding of the technologies in use in the Service, their strengths, weaknesses, life cycle and competitors
- Experience of business processes used to manage a corporate IT department, such as financial planning and management, risk management, acquiring and retaining talent.
Leadership and EQ:
- Empowering People at all times - ensures that individuals in their teams with the expertise have the power to make decisions, at the lowest possible level.
- Always getting the basics right, from quality development conversations to recognition and ongoing performance feedback. Has the ability to develop, coach, mentor and inspire others.
- Ensures team compliance with Code of Conduct and demonstrates strong leadership and Values & Behaviours.
- Creates an environment where people are listening and speak openly about the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that everyone can understand and learn.
- Within the team(s) they operate in notices morale and works to positively influence this.
- Embraces a culture of change and agility, evolving continuously, adapting to our changing world.
- Effective team player naturally looks beyond own area/organisational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and/or perspective of others, and builds trust-based relationships with leaders and employees across IT&S
- Is self-aware and actively seeks input from others on impact and effectiveness.
- Applies judgment and common sense at scale - able to use insight and good judgement to deliver commercially sound, efficient and pragmatic decisions and solutions and to respond to situations as they arise.
- Cultural fluency - able to operate successfully across cultural boundaries with sensitivity.
Experience required:
- Experience in Risk and Insurance, Audit, incubation and launchpad.
- Experience running an IT operations team or teams - responsible for delivering reliable and commercially efficient operations
- Experience of an IT business interface role - successfully balancing business demands with enterprise drivers, being the face of IT to the business
- Experience of leading IT projects - securing investment, running governance, selecting solutions and vendors, planning, and running through to operations.
Plus
- A real passion for technology and its power to drive business efficiency, value and innovation
- Experience leading a team or teams with a focus on growing and developing talent and building an inclusive culture
- Experience in managing vendors and relationships in both Matrix and line management models in a geographically diverse environment.
- An understanding of the business or functional area which the Service supports - its strategy, its market, its challenges, its processes
- An understanding of the technologies in use in the Service, their strengths, weaknesses, life cycle and competitors
- Experience of business processes used to manage a corporate IT department, such as financial planning and management, risk management, acquiring and retaining talent.
Leadership and EQ:
- Empowering People at all times - ensures that individuals in their teams with the expertise have the power to make decisions, at the lowest possible level.
- Always getting the basics right, from quality development conversations to recognition and ongoing performance feedback. Has the ability to develop, coach, mentor and inspire others.
- Ensures team compliance with Code of Conduct and demonstrates strong leadership and Values & Behaviours.
- Creates an environment where people are listening and speak openly about the good, the bad, and the ugly, so that everyone can understand and learn.
- Within the team(s) they operate in notices morale and works to positively influence this.
- Embraces a culture of change and agility, evolving continuously, adapting to our changing world.
- Effective team player naturally looks beyond own area/organisational boundaries to consider the bigger picture and/or perspective of others, and builds trust-based relationships with leaders and employees across IT&S
- Is self-aware and actively seeks input from others on impact and effectiveness.
- Applies judgment and common sense at scale - able to use insight and good judgement to deliver commercially sound, efficient and pragmatic decisions and solutions and to respond to situations as they arise.
- Cultural fluency - able to operate successfully across cultural boundaries with sensitivity.
Duration of the Assignment: 12 months