Product Manager

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 an experienced Product Manager to take ownership of our Finance & Procurement systems.  You will be passionate about understanding business problems 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

• Work with finance & procurement teams to take product enhancement ideas through to product implementation.
• Work closely with the business in a collaborative environment to execute strategic product roadmaps.
• Define software solutions that technical teams can deliver, from simple to complex solutions.
• Manage the requirements/user story backlog through validation and prioritisation.
• Facilitate prioritisation discussions, user story development and refinement, support testing and implementation through an iterative development lifecycle.
• Perform product demonstrations and product technical presentations.
• Collaborate with functional leads in Software Engineering to build best-in-class software, products, and services.
• Assist the research, evaluation and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.
• Contribute to community of practice, sharing ideas, best practice and building collective team success. 

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Our essential requirements

• Previous experience managing Finance products (ideally D365 Dynamics F&O).
• Experience working with business to define requirements for change and agreeing a joint roadmap.
• Previous experience working as a Product Manager on small to large scale projects and software products
• Understanding of system development life cycle methodologies and when best to utilise them (e.g., waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, and DevOps)
• Experience embedding Agile ceremonies and ways of working across multidisciplinary teams

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