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SalaryHelping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes. It's up to us in L&G Group functions - which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we're helping to improve our customers' lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.
Job Description
We're looking for a Head of Product Management to join us in London or Hove!
You'll play a key role to strategically plan, develop, and manage the infrastructure services product portfolio within the Infrastructure & Operations function; ensuring that all infrastructure products are well defined, deliver value to our customers and that we proactively manage the backlog of features & enhancements.
In addition to this, you will lead a team of Product Owners, who will develop visions and sustainable individual product strategies to build on the success in close co-operation with all existing teams within L&G business units.
What you'll be doing
- Collaborating across peer groups to define and clearly communicate the product vision and strategy - setting goals and objectives, and guiding the product team in achieving these goals, ensuring these align with the wider business strategic objectives
- Building and maintaining relationships with our key internal stakeholders and customers - fostering a relationship of Product/service excellence and obtaining feedback to identify areas where improvements can be made to existing products or new products that are required
- Ensuring the Product team have technical roadmaps that are clearly defined, published, and are communicated proactively, and collaborating with our customers about the product roadmaps so customers and consumers are aware of targeted outcomes driving the product vision
- Developing and enhancing the talent profile for Product Management - ensuring appropriate resourcing plans so that relevant organisational and people capability/succession plans are in place and managed efficiently
- Developing a strong community for Product Owners across the L&G Group to collaborate and develop best practice by establishing forums for insight and experience to be shared, to leverage learnings across all our products
- Undertaking regular value for money assessments on all products / propositions in line with group and divisional standards and escalating any fair value concerns to senior management to enable appropriate action to be taken
What we're looking for
- You'll have a background as a Product Owner, preferably in a leadership position
- You'll also have experience of implementing infrastructure products, ideally within a regulated organisation
- Experience of mentoring and developing teams to adopt Agile methods for delivering infrastructure products is key
- An in-depth understanding of Agile and DevOps methodologies, tools, technical understanding of Products and their lifecycles, and up-to-date knowledge on industry standards and best practices
- Any experience of managing 3rd parties for IT engineering and support capabilities would be great
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle approaches and concepts of continuous integration, continuous delivery, deployment, as well as test-based development
When you commit to Legal & General, we'll commit to you too. That means we'll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.
If you join us, you'll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 30 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You'll receive a car allowance of 12% of your annual salary, and you can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We're also proud to offer competitive family leave.
You'll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.
Since 1836, we've grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.
We're all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.
We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.
At L&G, you'll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we're supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.
Today, there's over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?
Great minds don't have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.
We don't just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.
We think it's important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.
We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we're always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we're committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.
