Head Of Product Management

Head of Product Management
London - hybrid/flexible working
Permanent

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Head of Product Management to Join Resource Solutions as a Workforce Consultant. As an Employed Workforce Consultant, you will benefit from permanent employment with Resource Solutions and will be deployed on an interim or project basis into our clients' organisations, in return we will provide you with an opportunity to develop your skills with ongoing training and professional accreditations!

As Head of Product Management you will strategically plan, develop, and manage the infrastructure services product portfolio and ensure 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 other business units.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for collaborating across peer groups to define and clearly communicating 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, obtaining feedback to identify areas where improvements can be made to existing products or new products that are required.
• Ensure 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.
• Take the lead in all matters regarding the management of employees ensuring that management discretion is used in a consistent manner and that the area follows the organisational policies and procedures maximise business performance.
• Develop and enhance the talent profile for Product Management. Ensure appropriate resourcing plans so that relevant organisational and people capability and succession plans are in place and managed efficiently.
• Develop a strong community for Product Owners across the organisation to collaborate and develop best practice by establishing forums for insight and experience to be shared, to leverage learnings across all our products.
• Undertake regular value for money assessments on all products/propositions in line
• with group and divisional standards and escalate any fair value concerns to senior
• management to enable appropriate action to be taken.

Key skills/experience:

• Strong prior experience as a Product Owner, preferably in a Leadership position
• Implementing infrastructure products (Azure Cloud/AWS), ideally within a regulated organisation
• Experience of mentoring and developing teams to adopt agile methods for delivering infrastructure products
• In-depth understanding of agile and DevOps methodologies, tools, technical understanding of Products and their life cycles, and up-to-date knowledge on industry standards and best practices
• Experience of working in an environment that has a shared technology function across multiple business divisions and uses 3rd parties for IT engineering and support capabilities is desirable
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully engage and influence a broad range of individuals across various internal customers and support functions
• Highly collaborative and able to work across an organisation and drive direction
• Embrace feedback and transform into robust creative solutions
• Excellent conflict management skills
• Ability to motivate in a team orientated collaborative environment
• Agile/Product Management certification would be advantageous or equivalent experience

This is a unique opportunity join a workforce of highly skilled individuals and join an established Product team within a large organisation- don't hesitate to apply!