Product Manager (Audit & Big 4)
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Product Manager to be based at their client’s offices in London & Watford.
This is a hybrid role – you can work remotely in the UK and attend the London or Watford office 3-4 days per week.
This is a 6 month temporary contract to start asap
Day rate: Competitive Market rate
The Client’s Audit Innovation and Deployment team is dedicated to building and deploying cutting-edge products in close collaboration with the Audit function. The objective is to blend audit expertise with the latest technology, enabling the client to understand and address the user’s challenges, developing indispensable products that simplify the lives while promoting Audit Quality.
As a crucial member of the team, the Product Manager/Owner is expected to collaborate with a talented mix of Product Owners/Managers, Solution, Cloud and Enterprise Architects, Cloud and Software Engineers, Experience Designers, Business Analysts, and Testing specialists.
In addition to developing solutions that are at the forefront of the audit profession, the Client’s Audit Innovation & Deployment team works closely with strategic alliance partners, Global and other member firms to evaluate and adopt existing and emerging technologies into the UK practice, working closely with users to ensure solutions are deployed and adopted in a manner that fully realizes potential benefits.
As Product Manager, he/she will take on a leadership role in managing the complete product lifecycle. This includes conceptualising, defining, delivering, monitoring, refining products and optimising business outcomes. The Product Manager must exhibit a high level of leadership skills, guiding cross-functional teams to success while maintaining a strategic focus on business objectives. This role requires a seasoned professional who can bring a depth of insights and experience to drive innovation and ensure the continued growth and success of our product portfolio.
Product Manager will manage the end-to-end product lifecycle, which encompasses the conceiving, defining, delivering, monitoring, refining, and withdrawing of products from the market to maximize business results. The right candidate will be an experienced Product Manager who is able to demonstrate the balance between technical mastery and strong leadership skills.
Key Requirements
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, which means working with various capabilities and business partners to:
- Have a clear value proposition, strategy, and roadmap for the product/family of products
- Ensure solutions are fit for purpose and address customer needs
- Ensure delivery milestones are realistic and achieved
- Have a robust and cost-effective support model in place
- Perform governance and quality risk management activities including ownership of testing activities and accreditation inline with audit requirements.
- Ensure product team is committed and adept, supporting recruitment and onboarding activities.
- Deliver against finance metrics
- Planning resourcing needs based on programmes of work that product lifecycle needs (e.g. design sprints, solution build, marketing)
- Facilitate workshops and Subject matter experts/stakeholder interviews to capture and frame business challenges
- Deliver effective presentations of findings and recommendations to multiple levels of stakeholders
- Champion Agile practices, and empower your product teams to deliver solutions of the highest quality
- Act as a bridge between engineering teams and stakeholder groups, ensuring technical design and build standards are met alongside meeting business and stakeholder requirements
- Report on the agreed product OKRs and status
- Comfortably hold conversations with senior leadership internally and externally
- Builds and maintain strong relationships with other parts of our internal technology function
- Build and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders of all levels (inc. third parties to assess partnerships where applicable)
- Coach peers and junior colleagues for skills advancement and product management education
- Adhere to and promote the company values
- Adhere to and promote accessibility standards and ethical design principles
- Adhere to and promote Information Security related processes, Software Audit Tools accreditation requirements, procedures, and role-based responsibilities
- Contribute to the successful adoption of the product by driving promotional efforts and support and guidance
Key Requirements
- Proven business acumen, showcasing a deep understanding of business strategy, commercial thinking, and portfolio prioritisation at a senior level.
- Demonstrated strong leadership and people development skills, showcasing the ability to lead and develop teams effectively.
- Exceptional self-motivation and teamwork skills, coupled with the ability to build momentum and pivot strategically when required.
- Comprehensive technical mindset, with the ability to grasp and align complex technical concepts with overarching business priorities.
- Proven experience in internal and external senior stakeholder management, with excellent verbal and written communication skills for articulating, selling, defending, and receiving feedback on work.
- A history of building robust relationships with customers and teammates, displaying expertise in bringing people together to form motivated teams.
- Keen focus on achieving business outcomes that drive value in an agile, iterative manner, prioritising pragmatism over perfection.
- Exceptional ability to convene client and senior stakeholders at all levels, from C-Suite to process leads, SMEs, and analysts, facilitating outcomes that drive value throughout the product lifecycle.
- Expertise in designing user-centric solutions that respond effectively to user needs.
- Proven experience in managing client engagements and project workstreams, along with a track record of successfully working with and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Significant knowledge of the automation and technology landscape, enabling effective management of business processes.
- Client facing, excellent communication, supportive, team leading skill
- Experience in the Audit field/Service Organisation/any of the big 4 would be an advantage but not essential.
- May need to travel to other office locations in UK for workshops
Due to the volume of applications received, unfortunately we cannot respond to everyone
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