M&S Jobs – Product Manager

Job Description:

We are looking for a Product Manager to holistically manage the product management process from strategy creation, product planning and build, to launch and optimization – coordinating with stakeholders, UX and technology throughout that lifecycle. Acting as the voice of the ‘customer’, you will translate needs into a product roadmap and backlog, constantly prioritising and managing the team’s capacity to maximize customer and business value.

Job Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a good understanding of all UX design and research methods.
• Effectively deliver agile product responsibilities in all heartbeat sessions
• Contribute to each quarterly prioritisation process and create a hi-level product roadmap, presenting it to wider teams and stakeholders on a regular basis
• Lead the development of user stories, the development backlog and sprint plan
• Identify and apply insight from customer research, data analytics, market and competitor analysis, industry / product / technology trends etc
• Develop clear and compelling value propositions, working with stakeholders to align and agree
• Demonstrate a good level of understanding of the full technology stack and understand how your product interacts with all areas of the business.
• Create complex business cases that include: market analysis, costs, business/user benefits, OPEX & CAPEX calculations, sensitivity analysis & NPS output
• Manage a backlog of stakeholder requirements, customer problems, new features, optimising existing features, technical debt, quick wins vs strategic projects.
• Set clear objectives and key results for new features, working in conjunction with analytics if required
• Identify a variety of possible features / solutions to that address the problem and best reinforce the value proposition
• Work with the scrum master to inspect and adapt the teams working practices to suit the product lifecycle optimising value delivery.

Job Requirement:

• Excellent requirements / competitive analysis skills, pricing and financial planning
• Experience of managing successful delivery in an Agile software environment to deliver customer-led outcomes
• Strong line management skills
• You are a connector, bringing people together you help make improvements even in areas you do not own.
• You have the ability to strongly influence decisions you don’t own
• Extensive experience and passion for the relevant product area and a deep understanding of the customer
• Experience working in product management, demonstrating successful development and delivery of product strategies, roadmaps through to product launch and optimisation
• Excellent technical capability
• Excellent communication skills and strong experience in dealing with business stakeholders – relatability to non-technical business users and technical resources

Job Details:

Company: Marks and Spencer

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK

Application Deadline: N/A

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