Responsibilities

for this role:

  • Collaboration with your proposition, distribution, operations and marketing colleagues in the delivery of business outcomes
  • Ability to understand the wider business strategy and direction and put new features into appropriate context ensuring key decisions are taken or escalated where appropriate
  • Accountable for the management of your part of the portfolio backlog, scope and prioritisation
  • Set direction to multiple feature team enabling them to operate efficiently through clear and timely decision
  • Responsible for leading the design of features that meet clearly identified customer need and business outcomes
  • Responsible for ensuring business benefit of your features is understood, measured and delivered
  • Responsible for ensuring the solution is appropriately tested with users
  • Day to day management of your Product Owner team
  • Ability to positively promote the work of the teams across the broader organisation
  • Contribute to the development of our product management approach increasing the awareness of the capability across the business

    • Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

    Essential:

  • You have launched successful external or internal facing software products
  • You have experience with the end to end product management lifecycle for across web and mobile
  • You are obsessed with attention to detail and making sure your solutions meet genuine customer problems
  • You can lead through influence and champion the work that you and your teams delivers throughout the business
  • You can set direction to a team but are also comfortable being challenged on this in a collaborative manner
  • You have a track record of quickly establishing yourself within a new industry to understand the needs of users and the opportunities to meet these
  • You can demonstrate how you measure the success of a digital product and how new functionality will make an impact.
  • You have sufficient technical knowledge to understand and debate solutions and sizing of work
  • You have experience of a range of agile development methodologies and tool

    • Desirable:

  • Whilst experience within our industry is not essential it helps to have a background in:
  • Our target customers
  • Life and pensions products, markets and competitors
  • Asset management, markets and competitors
  • Financial services regulatory frameworks
  • M&G products, systems and distribution methods
  • Product Management certification
  • Relevant degree

    • Work Level: Manager or Expert
    Recruiter Name: Phoebe Ewers
    Closing Date: 30/01/23

    We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.
    Job ID R10171