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Reporting to the VRM Product Principle, this role will be responsible for the product management of the De-Fleet Optimisation Product.
We remarket every vehicle that is handed back by Motability Scheme customers, which means on average 250,000 cars a year, with this number set to increase dramatically. As the Product Manager for De-Fleet Optimisation, you’re responsible for the products that price and route cars through the de-fleet processes and onto the optimum sales channel.
We remarket every vehicle that is handed back by Motability Scheme customers, which means on average 250,000 cars a year, with this number set to increase dramatically. As the Product Manager for De-Fleet Optimisation, you’re responsible for the products that price and route cars through the de-fleet processes and onto the optimum sales channel.
As our de-fleet volumes increase, the vehicles we remarket evolve and the customer demand changes, the Optimisation Product will be key to optimizing pricing and routing decisions and delivering maximum commercial benefit.
We are a commercially focused, data-led division, and you will help pave the way as we implement technology to move us to the next level of optimisation and use millions of datapoints to maximise the value we achieve for £3bn of vehicles.
You’ll work closely with the Commercial Operations Senior Leadership Team to quantify and prioritise the problems worth solving, and then make sure your product teams fully understand them, can link their strategies to the objectives and have the insights and autonomy they need to deliver excellent solutions at speed.
You’ll be responsible for refreshing and maintaining a product strategy that aligns to the wider Commercial Operations strategy and empowers your team to solve the highest priority problems moving your product in the right direction. You will drive the product discovery and champion a data-led, test and learn approach.
You’ll make sure the product teams have the direction, data and insights they need to maximise our current capabilities. You’ll also work closely with stakeholders, Data and Technology to identify and implement new technologies to optimise decision-making, automate decisions where appropriate and ultimately maximise the premium we achieve for our cars.
As the Product Manager, you’ll lead and coach POs in their respective teams to foster a culture where teams are truly empowered to solve problems, delivering excellent solutions that address business and user needs while maximising commercial value.
About You
You are experienced at working with stakeholders at all levels to gain consensus and drive outcomes. You are excellent at negotiating with a wide range of stakeholders to elicit maximum business value while prioritising the most impactful problems to solve.
The ‘why’ is important to you, as it that what allows you to lead and support the teams in identifying and delivering the optimal solutions.
You can take a vision and strategy and lead teams through discovery to understand how to deliver incremental improvements that lead to the overall vision, inspiring and motivating teams to deliver fantastic outcomes, while empowering them to solve problems.
You have domain specific ML experience and have experience of how to implement suitable technology to optimise decision-making and achieve the optimum outcome, with a passion for understanding how new technologies can be introduced to further improve outcomes and performance.
You are an experienced Product Manager in a machine learning (ML) field, with a record of launching and scaling machine learning models, that allow users to make the best use of ML models in a clear and productive way. You have hands on experience working with ML tooling, data platforms and infrastructure in a commercial setting and have a data science/software engineering skillset.
You are passionate about driving commercial outcomes and understand how technology and data can drive more informed decisions. You believe in the power of data and how it can be used to improve processes, drive efficiencies and maximise the resources available whilst allowing us to capitalise on commercial opportunities, embracing the test and learn approach.
You will have experience of leading teams and be an effective communicator with a track record of developing, coaching and empowering teams through regular team meetings, 1:1s and performance reviews, offering continuous support and development. You will have the ability to influence the culture of the teams under your leadership but also those who you work with closely to create a mindset of ownership and empowerment to deliver excellent products at speed.
The ‘why’ is important to you, as it that what allows you to lead and support the teams in identifying and delivering the optimal solutions.
You can take a vision and strategy and lead teams through discovery to understand how to deliver incremental improvements that lead to the overall vision, inspiring and motivating teams to deliver fantastic outcomes, while empowering them to solve problems.
You have domain specific ML experience and have experience of how to implement suitable technology to optimise decision-making and achieve the optimum outcome, with a passion for understanding how new technologies can be introduced to further improve outcomes and performance.
You are an experienced Product Manager in a machine learning (ML) field, with a record of launching and scaling machine learning models, that allow users to make the best use of ML models in a clear and productive way. You have hands on experience working with ML tooling, data platforms and infrastructure in a commercial setting and have a data science/software engineering skillset.
You are passionate about driving commercial outcomes and understand how technology and data can drive more informed decisions. You believe in the power of data and how it can be used to improve processes, drive efficiencies and maximise the resources available whilst allowing us to capitalise on commercial opportunities, embracing the test and learn approach.
You will have experience of leading teams and be an effective communicator with a track record of developing, coaching and empowering teams through regular team meetings, 1:1s and performance reviews, offering continuous support and development. You will have the ability to influence the culture of the teams under your leadership but also those who you work with closely to create a mindset of ownership and empowerment to deliver excellent products at speed.
Minimum criteria:
- Background in Product Leadership
- Commercially focused
- Engaging and confident presenter
- Highly motivated with a growth mindset
- Successfully led and coached cross-functional teams; including data engineers and data scientists
- Experience managing third party contracts and their performance against SLAs
- Experience of using technology to optimise decisions
- Experience in analysing complex, large-scale data sets and making decisions based on data
About The Company
We’re the company behind the Motability Scheme. We exist to deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve our customers’ mobility in a fast-changing world. We’re the UK’s largest car leasing company and we help over 750,000 people get on the road.
We employ over 1800 people, across London, Bristol, Edinburgh, and Coalville. We know our people are key to our success, so we aim to create an environment that allows our employees to flourish. We look for highly motivated people with a combination of commercial sense and real enthusiasm to meet our customers' needs.
What we do
We lease a wide range of tailored mobility solutions to people who receive of one of the Government’s qualifying mobility allowances. Our customers choose a car, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle (WAV), scooter or powered wheelchair that best suits their needs. We take care of their insurance, breakdown, servicing and more, as part of our worry-free package.
At the end of the lease, our customers can exchange their vehicle for a brand-new model. Each year we sell and move around 200,000 cars. This makes us the largest supplier of single-source vehicles back into the used car market.
The Scheme has been providing affordable, worry-free motoring for over 45 years. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, with an independent customer satisfaction rating of 9.6 out of 10.
How we work
We work in a hybrid way. That means remotely for up to two days each week and in our great office spaces the rest of the time. This gives us a good work/life balance and lets us collaborate and deliver for our customers. Visit our website to find out more.
We do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests, where possible, to build on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.
Our beliefs and values
We believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.
We want to sustain a nurturing culture. And our people to be rewarded equally, regardless of race, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do:
- We believe no one should be left behind
- We find solutions
- We believe we must take the lead
- We drive change
- We believe everything starts with the customer
- We care
What we can offer you
- Pay: competitive salary, with a yearly discretionary bonus, based on your performance
- Holiday: 28 days, and you can buy and sell days
- Pension: 15% non-contributory pension (9% during probation)
- Health and wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance cover available for all employees and free health screenings for over 50s. Life assurance at four times your basic salary, to give you peace of mind. Free access to healthcare apps like Peppy, Unmind, and Aviva Digital GP. Mental Health Allies and an Employee Assistance Programme
- Development: A library of internal training on our myLearn platform
- Family friendly: We have competitive family leave policies
- Diversity and inclusion: We embrace the diversity of our people and empower them to come to work as their true selves. We want them to flourish and be rewarded equally. We have Employee Network Groups, and we pride ourselves on being inclusive and all our offices have first-rate disability access
- Helping our community: One volunteering day each year, and access to volunteering platform Neighbourly
- Schemes: Car Benefit Scheme for electric and hybrid cars. This means you can lease a brand-new electric or plug-in hybrid car, with insurance and more, for a fixed monthly amount. Cycle to Work Scheme. Employee Discount Scheme, to save money across lots of retailers
- Other voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans, free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.
