Product Manager

Company Description

• 14 month fixed term contract.
• Managing one of our IT Delivery Teams
• Join as we implement our company wide £60m CRM solution
• Competitive base salary and generous annual bonus
• Health Cover/ local gym access

We are Together - Proud to be a Financial Services success story based in South Manchester.  Established in 1974, we employ around 800 colleagues.

A specialist lender offering a range of mortgage and secured loan products to individuals and businesses, who are typically underserved by mainstream lenders.  We play our part to turn challenges into opportunities which make our customers' financial ambitions accessible.

Over 50 years of successful trading has positioned Together as a market leader, thanks to a common-sense approach to lending.

As Product Manager, you will be working within our Change and IT Department and you will have responsibility to build and support desirable, feasible, viable and sustainable IT Services that delight all stakeholders. This role has significant relationship management responsibilities with executives and senior leaders across the business, as well as across our Team, Train and Portfolio structure. 

Job Description

In this 14 month fixed term maternity cover contract role, you will join us at a really exciting time; as our £60m tech transformation project comes to fruition and new systems are introduced to replace existing ones. You will be at the forefront of this and will be thinking about how we use the system once it has been implemented by understanding user needs and objectives, defining a vision for products and aligning stakeholders around the vision for the product and by the prioritisation of features and capabilities. 

Some key focus areas for a Product Manager will be:

Leadership:

• To provide leadership, functional management and support of their delivery “train”.
• To provide line management of a group of Product Owners (not necessarily aligned to their delivery train).  This includes performance management and general pastoral care.
• To support the evolution of Group Technology Services function by continuously reviewing and improving delivery methods and operating structures, and supporting adoption across the Change community.

Change:

• Engage with stakeholders to agree improvements to products and services that deliver the maximum possible value.
• Work with stakeholders and Change Management on idea generation.
• Accountable for the delivery of change by your train on schedule, to budget and meeting agreed scope and quality criteria, including compliance.

Production Support:

• Accountable for the production service of the applications within the remit of the delivery train. 
• Each of these areas should be managed, prioritised and built into roadmaps and capacity plans in order to meet service levels and targets.
• Work with business stakeholders to get ready for ‘live’ and define what ‘live’ looks like.
• Implement and manage success metrics for the product whilst taking responsibility for the entire product lifecycle.

Management / Product Management:

• Work together with the Product Owners to craft a product delivery roadmap and execute this against its objectives.
• Accountable for executing the planning and prioritisation of train delivery (in collaboration with Business Owners and Sponsors) that balances business value, service stability, and effective delivery.
• Build relationships with users to understand needs and challenges.  Disseminate this to the delivery team.

Qualifications

As a Product Manager you would be expected you to:

• Demonstrate excellent strategic ability with a pragmatic approach.
• Have experience of presenting business cases and other relevant content at C-suite level.
• Have gained a strong understanding of all elements of the entire product management process.
• Be an experienced people manager with a track record of coaching and supporting colleagues to help them fulfil their potential.
• Be customer obsessed!

Additional Information

Benefits working at Together

• 26 days holiday, (increasing with service) your birthday off, and bank holidays
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Matched pension contribution 
• Life assurance 
• Critical illness cover
• Health cash plan 
• Private medical insurance
• Free access to company holiday homes 
• Travel season ticket loans
• Ride to work scheme 
• Free local gym access 
• Local bar / restaurant discounts 

Together Money embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. 

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.