Deals Technology - Product Manager

About the team
The Deals line of service works with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business around the world.
Within Deals, Value Creation and Realisaion (VC&R) strives to be the 'go-to' value creation advisors for Deals' clients, supporting them to invest and deliver sustainable outcomes - combining deep industry insights and diverse capabilities with our energised teams powered by tech. Services include Commercial due diligence, corporate strategy, operational restructuring and capital projects.
Lead Advisory (LA) provides services to a wide range of clients; larger corporates to smaller privately owned businesses, from private equity houses to government bodies. Their deep sector knowledge and cross border connections play a key role in our work. Services include corporate finance, valuations, restructuring M&A and Debt & Capital advisory.
The Deals Tech Team is an exciting, fast-paced, and growing team focused on the technical and business requirements of the Deals arm of the PwC UK Business. We are responsible for the development, adoption, and use of technology within the Deals Business.
The successful candidate will work directly with either VC&R or LA, and alongside Deals Tech to help monetise and maximise the return of the portfolio of assets both deployed and in development
You can expect a challenging and rewarding career that will provide you with opportunities to work with all areas of the business. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn new technologies, with access to industry leading technical training resources you will be both able and encouraged to further develop your skills and advance your career with a market leading employer.
About the role
We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to support the successful adoption and future development of a product, developed in-house at PwC within either LA or VC&R, focused on maximising the return on investment of technology assets.
In this role, you'll leverage your technical expertise whilst working with business users and stakeholders to identify, define, and prioritise new business use cases and functional requirements. Collaborating closely with the product team as well as the development teams, you will define the vision, success metrics, and roadmap for the team and subsequently track those metrics to monitor and prove adoption and successful product performance.
We feel it is important for a successful Product Manager to form a strong understanding of the business they work in and to network with business users. As such our team is encouraged to learn not just the requirements of their projects but also the why and how of the processes involved.
Your responsibilities will include but may not be limited to:
Developing ambitious visions, strategic and tactical plans in line with the businesses strategy and objectives, prioritising what matters most to achieve the strategic goals and initiatives behind the product.
Define Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and establish an efficient process to collect and analyse qualitative and quantitative product data to understand product performance against these.
Drive the success of the products working alongside cross-functional teams, identifying and prioritising roadmap milestones to achieve OKRs.
Meet with users and stakeholders to define requirements and validate the roadmap.
Coordinate an effective internal product communication and information delivery.
Assist with the generation of process and governance to support the product and gathering feedback for improvements
Drive go to market and pricing discussions
Coordinate with others to develop training materials to support product adoption.
Owning the business case and reporting directly to the Head of Application Development for the Deals practice.
Desired Skills and Experience:
If you are naturally inquisitive, have an analytical mind and enjoy solving problems in a rigorous and logical manner then this is the role for you. Alongside other members of the team you will engage with senior members of our business, helping to solve important business problems and generate value for our clients.
An experienced professional with a track record of successful product management, utilising best practice tools and techniques.
Experience owning a product strategy and defining product roadmaps.
Ability to set and define business priorities based on an in-depth understanding of business needs, problems and objectives.
Ability to approach projects analytically with experience of making data-driven decisions.
Excellent stakeholder analysis and management skills.
Understanding of software development processes and methodologies
Familiar with Agile working practices.