Head of Product Management - Perm - Home/London/Europe- GBP80k/GBP100k + Bens

In collaboration with the wider organisation, create, maintain, and evangelize the Product Vision, drawing directly from our Business Strategy. Own the Product Backlog and both internal/external Roadmaps, ensuring a complete set of prioritised and estimated requirements ready for delivery. Oversee the end-to-end product delivery within budget and as per committed roadmap. Become a key proponent and driver for a product first mindset across the organisation, demonstrating success and control through quantitative objective, goals, OKRs and metrics.

Role Description

• Build a significant level of trust between stakeholders involved in all product decisions to allow the Product Team to efficiently complete their roles.
• Guide a cross-functional team in overall management of the product life cycle.
• Provide leadership and mentoring on data standards and visualization across the Analytics landscape
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation to define and maintain the Product Vision based on our Business Strategy.
• Support the definition, exploration and creation of new products and service offerings.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the marketplace your product operates within including competitor offerings and capabilities to identify opportunities and market gaps.
• Own and maintain a complete, business aligned, prioritized Roadmap and Product backlog ready for delivery.
• Use data and metrics to identify opportunities and quantify success.
• Work closely with the Architecture and Engineering teams for a seamless product delivery.
• Provide clear and unambiguous guidance to commercial functions around product capability and roadmap.
• Maintain a holistic view of Product Profit/Loss and business benefit.

Knowledge

• Degree educated
• Expert in modern delivery practices (Agile and Product)
• Basic understanding of how Cloud technologies support modern Products
• Understanding of how DevOps supports Products
• Automation
• Full Product life cycle
• Knowledge of Shipping/maritime desirable
• Deep understanding of ETL processes and tools to support (eg Alteryx)

Skills

• Apply technology to deliver business vision
• Strong collaborative and partner approach - collaborative and pro-active in finding solutions
• Introduction, championing and embedding of new working practices
• Implement control and structure without stifling innovation and agility
• Presentation and facilitation

Experience

• Proven track record of delivering large products in multi-national organisations.
• Working with outsourced/offshore delivery teams
• Demonstratable experience of creating core Data Lakes and Data Warehouses across an entire application portfolio utilizing tools like AWS Redshift
• Management of Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics platforms/products desirable

Other Requirements:

• Ability to travel (national and international) and work flexibility
• Able to work from home

QHSSE Health, Safety, Security and Environment

• Championing appropriate health, safety, security and environment (HSSE) risk assessments becomes part of the company culture.
• Accountable for the implementation and monitoring of actions that mitigate risk and enhance controls/processes, to ensure that QHSSE of all Inchcape Stakeholders are known and staff/suppliers/crew feel empowered and accountable for their own safety.
• Ensure full compliance with, and implementation of, the Inchcape QHSSE Management System
• Ensure that appropriate resources are allocated to control QHSSE risk
• Accountable for ensuring that clear, appropriate and timely communication channels are put in place to report and manage QHSSE risk