Digital Product Manager

at  CBRE

LOCATION(S)

London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Looking for your next opportunity in Product Management? This is your chance!
In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the proper balance between business needs, technology options, and user experience in order to maximize product value and increase efficiency. You will act as the “voice” of the customer, translating customer needs to the Agile team by properly codifying intent, sizing work efforts, prioritizing needs, and summarizing issues.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and communicate a comprehensive vision, product roadmap, and articulate the short-term and long-term strategy holistically for your business value chain, ensuring tight alignment to business strategy and OKRs.
• Works closely with designers, engineers, and business professionals in a collaborative environment to create strategic, product roadmaps.
• Draws upon customer insights to drive the software product vision and direction; Provides leadership in identifying and defining ongoing product features that align with business strategy.
• Defines software solutions that CBRE’s technical teams can deliver. Represents the customer to the technical teams, answering questions about client expectations.
• Hands-on management of day-to-day execution of product delivery with focus on building a competitive and differentiating data backed digital advantage.
• Stay up to date on industry trends, anticipate future market needs, and stay abreast of investment management trends and digital advancements.
• Work in close collaboration with Data and Data Science teams to drive product embedded analytics and associated insights.
• Lead product delivery collaboration across business, engineering and data teams, as well as partner on user onboarding, change management and continued product satisfaction.
• Effectively run governance forums and manage product budgets and overall team performance.
• Uses technical and product expertise to prioritize deliverables and manage backlog of requests. Owns the product backlog.
• Facilitates discussions, user story development and refinement, and testing and validation; contributes to roadblocks resolution and decision making.
• Provides regular updates; manages executive stakeholder communication and reporting.
• Acts as a single point of contact for ongoing support and services. Prioritizes needs, engages various technical teams, as needed, routes requests to correct owners, and ensures support is provided to internal or external satisfaction.
• Actively engages in Agile process, including daily scrum sessions, demos, and testing activities, as well as training and change management activities, as needed.
• Manages changes to features and communication to ensure there is clear indication of what is required for each release.
• Assists the team in sizing and breaking down Epic into a manageable size to accommodate the release cadence. Writes user stories and cases, as needed.
• Lead and manage a team of high performing product owners through the product life-cycle and development processes, while instituting and driving mature product management discipline and process adherence.
• Supervisory Responsibilities. In this role you will be responsible for managing a small team of product owners. Provides informal assistance such as technical guidance, and/or training to coworkers. May lead project teams and/or plan, and supervise assignments of lower level employees.