product manager London, England
Job description
General information
Reference
005415Close Date
23/06/2023
Vacancy details
Applicants must provide evidence of their right to work in the UK as BPP is unable to provide visa sponsorship
Job Profile
Product & Technology - Product & Technology
Title
Principal Product Manager
Contract Type
Permanent
Job Purpose
BPP Education is entering a new phase of its growth and evolution, attracting thousands more students each year and expanding into new verticals and new markets globally. The BPP Product & Technology (P&T) organisation is evolving rapidly, and driving transformation of its platforms, digital products and experiences, in order to help BPP Education scale and meet the growth of the business in the coming years.
We’re for looking for an experienced product leader to join our team at BPP Education, to help us deliver experiences that delight and engage learners during their time studying with BPP and beyond, throughout their working lives.
As a Principal Product Manager, you will report to the Director of Product Management, and you will play a pivotal role in leading the product strategy and delivery of your portfolio of products across BPP Education’s digital experiences and platforms. You will be accountable for the definition, delivery, operational performance and support of your BPP digital product portfolio and its associated business targets and metrics. Collaborating closely with your peers in Engineering, Product Design & Data, you will help transform BPP Education to become more customer centred, design and data informed, to build products that meet and exceed our users’ needs across our education ecosystem.
Essential Skills
- Experience leading product within cross-functional delivery teams. You demonstrate domain expertise, business acumen, connection between product development and iteration towards company goals
- You demonstrate a value-centric approach to work. You are driven by delivering measurable value to customers
- Proven experience in developing commercially viable products and services
- Agile software development and product discovery methodologies. You reflect the importance of continuous, iterative delivery of value, plus the tools and techniques to facilitate this. You define solutions based on a thorough, methodical and data-driven approach. You have a high degree of pragmatism and bias to action when it comes to shipping products.
- Highly collaborative approach to product development both with business and colleagues in technology
- You are a flexible, creative communicator with strong written and verbal skills. You can consult, collaborate with & influence key stakeholders and groups
- Excellent presentation and story-telling skills. Proven experience of managing and influencing cross-functional groups, driving alignment and consensus across the organisation.
- Obsession with learning. Whether it’s driving key product KPIs, learning new skills or the nuances of the market you are always reflecting on what can be improved and how to get there
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the full cycle of product management for your digital product portfolio and cross-functional teams. From opportunity assessment, ideation, through validation and delivery, to ongoing product management.
- Collaborate with your peers in leadership within Product Design, Engineering and Data to execute the strategic vision for what we build, led by user insight and data, aligned to the broader business strategy, objectives and metrics
- You will partner closely with Product Design to ensure user centred principles are applied in product design and development. You will think in terms of experience & service design, and its impact on customer experience, product metrics and business KPIs.
- You will partner closely with Engineering to ensure that we develop products in line with our overarching technology strategy, and we minimise technical debt in our quest to move fast and be agile.
- You will facilitate discussions across your teams about hypotheses and lead teams through discovery, test and learn processes to validate or kill ideas, using data and insight driven decision making. You'll be a subject matter expert for your product teams' metrics and foster the use of experiments and MVT techniques where applicable.
- Demonstrate product management excellence.
- Collaborate with the Director and Heads of Product to set the standard for product management processes and ways of working that help us scale product execution
Department
Technology - Operations
Vacancy location
Location
UK, London, London Portsoken Street
Employment Details
Contract Hours
37.50
FTE
1.00
About BPP Holdings
CEO: Graham Gaddes
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: 1001 to 5000 Employees
Type: Company - Private
Website: www.bpp.com
Year Founded: 1976
