Lead Product Manager

at  Renishaw plc

Job Description
At Renishaw, we are leaders in delivering high accuracy metrology solutions to industrial, medical and scientific processes around the world. Our range of Laser Calibration products set the benchmark in accuracy for thousands of engineering processes and systems ranging from CNC machining to the manufacture of advanced semiconductors and are recognised as the gold standard in the market.
Using proprietary technology, our range of Laser Calibration products set the benchmark in accuracy for thousands of engineering processes and systems ranging from CNC machining to the manufacture of advanced semiconductors and are recognised as the gold standard in the market.
We’re recruiting a Lead Product Manager, who will be responsible for delivering high-quality products that solve customer problems and create business value. In this role, you’ll mentor and coach your team members, collaborate with design and engineering leaders, and communicate with sales teams and customers to understand their needs and feedback. Your inputs will help refine the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Calibration product line.

About the role

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of product managers, providing feedback and guidance on their performance and career development.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the product management team, encouraging them to explore new technologies and methodologies.
• Communicate the product vision and strategy to stakeholders and prioritise the product backlog and roadmap based on feedback, research, analysis, and business objectives.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the success and impact of your products, while making informed trade-offs and decisions to balance the needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborate with design and engineering teams to refine product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, review and validate product features and functionality while providing feedback and guidance to the development team and create and execute launch and go-to-market plans, ensuring training is rolled out to sales channels, support, and others.
• Conduct user research, interviews, surveys, and testing to understand user needs, behaviours, and preferences, while tracking and monitoring market trends, technology developments, and changes to legislation that may affect your products.
• Create and implement product promotion plans and campaigns, tracking their effectiveness and ROI, support sales and marketing teams with product collateral, demos, presentations, and webinars, and answer questions and resolve product issues, sales queries, and customer complaints.

About you

• Time-served and proven experience in a product management role, ideally within a technical/engineering environment
• Ability to propose product strategies to both technical and commercial stakeholders to help form the direction of product development
• Able to recognise customer needs, including end users and other Renishaw subsidiaries, to inform product strategies for the division
• Proficient in keeping abreast of market analysis and competitor product offerings, to understand whether the product strategies are competitive
• Comfortable engaging with stakeholders across all levels of the business, both internally and externally
• Experience of managing, coaching, leading and developing a small team of product management professionals

Person specification
The successful applicant will be a technology enthusiast, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to listen, analyse and adapt while remaining focused on the task. They will enjoy working within a team both locally and globally, with occasional international travel required. They will demonstrate strong organisational skills and attention to detail coupled with a pragmatic mindset enabling a balanced approach to problem solving.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we’re committing to your future career. That’s because we believe in developing our people’s skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that’s highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. (not available at our Castle Donington, Exeter, York & Edinburgh sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 524600 or recruitment@renishaw.com.
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Employment Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Requisition Number:
R6606 Lead Product Manager (Open

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of product managers, providing feedback and guidance on their performance and career development.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the product management team, encouraging them to explore new technologies and methodologies.
• Communicate the product vision and strategy to stakeholders and prioritise the product backlog and roadmap based on feedback, research, analysis, and business objectives.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the success and impact of your products, while making informed trade-offs and decisions to balance the needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• Collaborate with design and engineering teams to refine product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, review and validate product features and functionality while providing feedback and guidance to the development team and create and execute launch and go-to-market plans, ensuring training is rolled out to sales channels, support, and others.
• Conduct user research, interviews, surveys, and testing to understand user needs, behaviours, and preferences, while tracking and monitoring market trends, technology developments, and changes to legislation that may affect your products.
• Create and implement product promotion plans and campaigns, tracking their effectiveness and ROI, support sales and marketing teams with product collateral, demos, presentations, and webinars, and answer questions and resolve product issues, sales queries, and customer complaints