Senior Product Manager

at  Biffa Waste Services

OUR ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• 5 years’ of Product Management experience preferably in Agile/SCRUM environment
• 3 years’ experience building business cases, owning product strategy and product performance (or P&L) on complex products
• Advanced knowledge of financial terms and principles and ability to conduct financial analysis
• Experience managing other product managers, business analysts or technical product owners
• Understanding of system development life cycle methodologies (e.g., waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, and DevOps
• Experience embedding agile ceremonies and ways of working across distinct teams
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A QUICK LOOK AT THE ROLE

The IT team here at Biffa are undergoing digital transformation to ensure our products and services use the best and most cutting-edge technology to drive competitive advantage for our business. We are looking for a commercially minded Senior Product Manager to join the team and take ownership of the end-to-end product lifecycle across several business capabilities/segment areas. You must have a passion for understanding the business in-depth and developing digital solutions that blend seamlessly with customers’ workflows, provide the right information at the right time and deliver shareholder and customer value.
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YOUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as the “voice” of the customer on critical, complex products translating customer needs to the delivery team by properly codifying intent, sizing work efforts, prioritizing needs, and summarizing issues.
• Work closely with designers, engineers, and business professionals in a collaborative environment to create strategic, product roadmaps.
• Draw upon customer insights to drive the software product vision and direction.
• Define software solutions that technical teams can deliver on the most complex or largest solutions. Represent the customer to the technical teams, answering questions about client expectations.
• Prioritise deliverables and manage backlog of requests for the most complex products.
• Facilitate discussions, user story development and refinement, and testing and validation; contribute to roadblock resolution and decision making.
• Manage the strategic and tactical decisions for the product suite to provide product vision clarity
• Create and manage effective ‘Go to Market’ strategies to ensure successful adoption of new product offerings.
• Establish and analyze metrics to focus efforts and investments that properly ‘move the needle’
• Define, monitor and analyze key performance indicators to better facilitate the product decision making process.
• Perform analysis for build/buy/partner decisions and develop business cases for new products and features.
• Perform product demonstrations and product technical presentations.
• Collaborate with functional leads in Software Engineering to build best-in-class software and data products and services.
• Translate high-level specifications for software components into program specifications. Estimate time against completing the program specifications.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models.
• Guide technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes while ensuring nonfunctional requirements are met.
• Help the enterprise architect define metrics to measure and demonstrate enterprise technology value.
• Assist with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products.
• Oversee and facilitate the research, evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
• Identify the organisational impact (e.g., on skills, processes, structures and culture) and financial impact of the enterprise technology architecture.
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