Product Manager - Marketing Campaigns

CAMPAIGN PRODUCT MANAGER - LONDON.

ECOMMERCE FOCUSED PRODUCT MANAGER REQUIRED FOR AN EVER EXPANDING DIGITAL PLAYER WITH A GLOBAL FOOTHOLD. BIG BUDGET PROJECT AND PRODUCT WORK TO BE UNDERTAKEN, EXCITING RETAIL BRAND. A GENEROUS BENEFITS AND BONUS PACKAGE ON OFFER, CENTRAL LONDON LOCATION. PLEASE RESPOND TO FIND OUT MORE.

PRODUCT MANAGERS WITH MARKETING EXPERIENCE ARE HIGHLY DESIRABLE FOR THIS ROLE.

KEY OBJECTIVES OF THE CAMPAIGN PRODUCT MANAGEMENT ROLE:

- Lead Product Analyst to drive platform/product requirements and solutions for our software products
- Lead a team of Product Analysts in the Product Owner team
- Acts as a product champion, ensuring that new features and functions are incorporated into the product in a way that maintains a consistent, upgradeable, single platform
- Provide appropriate support and guidance to global and regional solutioning teams and business development as appropriate, ensuring knowledge transfer and training applied as necessary.
- Agile advocate, working with the Product Owner to deliver against the product roadmap
- Takes ownership of Epic and story development, ensuring all artefacts are delivered, managing UX and design resources as appropriate to required time and quality
- Act as an internal product consultant, responsible for understanding business processes and goals, identifying options for improving the solution and ensuring that the platform remains true to the product goals
- Ensure the success of the global Product Enhancement Board - managing the support of the global product representatives in the development of their enhancement requests.
- Ensuring effective management of Change Control Board
- Take the lead in defining new or changed system requirements with the products business users and take ownership of those requirements throughout the life cycle to ensure that solution delivered meets the business's needs
- Ensure on going development and mentoring of Product Analyst team members

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE PRODUCT MANAGER ROLE:

- Take overall responsibility for day to day management of Product analysis including task allocation and review.
- Work with the Product Owner and the business to understand their goals and strategies and turn them into system and business process improvements that provide demonstrable business benefit
- Provide innovative solutions to business problems, including challenging the business's own assumed solutions
- Ensure world class execution of change management process including responding within SLA's and managing requests through the process, escalating where necessary.
- Facilitate workshops to capture requirements at all levels of detail
- Responsible for driving product design and agile stories to support the development and maintenance of our loyalty product serving both internal and client-facing purposes
- Lead epic and story grooming with architecture, development and QA partner, ensuring stories are updated appropriately following any feedback
- Ensure grooming process provides full knowledge transfer, background and context for stories to an appropriate level for development and QA to appropriately understand effort to deliver desired functionality.
- Document requirements as Agile epicsdemonstrating a good understanding of business processes, products purpose and goals, with effective listening and a collaborative attitude
- Work closely with the Product Owner, Development Team, Project Manager to help define business cases, roadmap and release plans at the initiation stage of releases
- Continued evaluation of external market place and support competitor analysis initiatives as appropriate.
- Work with third party suppliers to scope third-party solutions and integration work where applicable
- Work with existing and new international offices to support developments in their markets

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES/SKILLS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED FOR THE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT ROLE:

- Full Software Development Lifecycle experience
- Experience in a Product analyst or Product Owner role in a commercial software organisation
- Usage of a variety of techniques for requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation and validation.
- Experience of meeting and workshop facilitation techniques
- Business process modelling and redesign
- Datamodelling and experience with relational databases.
- Systems analysis experience within complex IT systems using multi-tier architecture
- Although not required, prior software/database development experience would be advantageous
- Experience in working with off-shore development resources an advantage.

PRODUCT MANAGER REQUIRED, LONDON.