Product Manager London, England
Job description
Commercial Technology Product Manager
The Sun
We are looking for a highly motivated, self-driven Product Manager to be responsible for the product roadmap and delivery of commercial products, technology and digital advertising across News UK with a focus on The Sun portfolio. You will work closely with senior stakeholders to implement and develop features and improvements that align with commercial strategies. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who thinks in an innovative way and enjoys working in a fast paced environment.
Commercial Operations & Technology is a thriving team focused on the ongoing maintenance, protection and growth of commercial revenues. We are continuously improving and building on our commercial capabilities through experimentation and innovative technology.
Your role as Product Manager:
Work closely with the programme manager and key commercial stakeholders to help develop and maintain a product roadmap across websites and apps.
Support the business with capturing initiatives and aligning development dependencies in quarterly planning (PI Planning) processes.
Collaborate with programme manager and commercial leadership to prioritise product roadmap and align with overarching KPIs and objectives across commercial technology projects and cross-functional projects within the business.
Champion commercial products to ensure they are a key consideration in product, design and engineering, and ensure commercial stakeholders provide insights, requirements and decisions from project inception, working closely with teams within our brands and maintaining high levels of communication and collaboration.
Proactively monitor and analyse commercial performance and data to support roadmap progress and identify continuous improvements.
Build business cases and present product visions/opportunities to wider business and senior stakeholders.
Work closely with our business analyst and head of engineering to assemble well defined product requirements and technical solutions.
Support project managers to ensure successful and timely delivery of products that meet the highest quality standards.
Key Skills and Experience:
Experience in a product management role, with a track record of technical achievement.
Significant and demonstrable experience in leading complex digital products in a fast moving environment.
Strong communication, presentation and relationship management skills.
Demonstrable influencing and storytelling skills to justify priorities and product decisions.
Uses initiative to proactively identify new product opportunities
Understanding of data analysis and stakeholder feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.
Commercial or advertising knowledge and experience is a significant benefit.
Eager and quick to learn.
We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.
Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.
We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions
Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes
‘Bikes for Work’ scheme
Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling
We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.
News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.
