A quick look at the role
The IT team here at Biffa are undergoing digital transformation to ensure our products and services use the best and most cutting-edge technology to drive competitive advantage for our business. We are looking for a commercially minded Senior Product Manager to join the team and take ownership of the end-to-end product lifecycle across several business capabilities/segment areas. You must have a passion for understanding the business in-depth and developing digital solutions that blend seamlessly with customers’ workflows, provide the right information at the right time and deliver shareholder and customer value.
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Your core responsibilities
- Partner with one or multiple business divisions to take the idea through to product implementation, driving the roadmap for business demand, building a trusted advisor relationship with MDs/leadership across business divisions.
- Serve as the "voice" of the customer on critical, complex products translating customer needs to the delivery team by properly prioritizing needs, and defining business benefit/value.
- Work closely with architecture, engineering, and third-party providers in a collaborative environment to create strategic, product delivery roadmaps and oversee implementation.
- Facilitate discussions, user story development and refinement, and testing and validation; contribute to roadblock resolution and decision making.
- Create strong and robust business cases aligned to the overall strategy and present to executive teams for approval
- Create and manage effective ‘Go to Market’ strategies to ensure successful adoption of new product offerings.
- Define, monitor and analyse key performance indicators to better facilitate the product decision making process.
- Perform analysis for build/buy/partner decisions and product demonstrations/technical presentations
- Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
- Assist with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.
- Identify the organisational impact (e.g., on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise technology architecture.
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Our essential requirements
- 5 years’ of Product Management experience preferably in Agile/SCRUM environment
- 3 years’ experience building business cases, owning product strategy and product performance (or P&L) on complex products
- Advanced knowledge of financial terms and principles and ability to conduct financial analysis
- Experience managing other product managers, business analysts, UI/UX analysts or technical product owners
- Understanding of system development life cycle methodologies (e.g., waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, and DevOps
- Experience embedding agile ceremonies and ways of working across distinct teams
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Last updated on Jun 7, 2024