Technical Product Manager

What You’ll Do:

• Leading and Collaborating with TPO’s, peer group TPM’s, and other IT stakeholder groups, who contribute towards finalizing future PI’s, utilising business value, together with assessment of available capacity and indicative level of effort arising from the team landscape resulting in effectively sequenced and prioritised backlogs

• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, and service management teams, to ensure the overall backlogs are balanced to ensure a scalable, user experience optimized, stable, and performant technology product, that continually meets business needs, ensuring NFR’s (Non Functional Requirements) and System enablers are considered and captured, and cascaded to team backlogs

• Understand Finance business processes and be experienced in engaging business stakeholders across the Finance domain where your experience with Group Procurement and Supply products and solutions will also be key.

• Define methodology for the analysis and response to target metrics and value post PI delivery, including recommended improvements, for use during `Inspect & Adapt? workshops, and with an overall goal of driving increased use and adoption

• Build peer group TPM community, identifying and acting upon opportunities for L&D, growth and advancement, whilst support TPO’s in the establishment of their community and identity, offering support and suggestions for their growth journey

• Maintain the quality and integrity of features within their technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of risks and dependencies, ensuring appropriate team backlogs reflect any impact

• Working with TPO’s to identify and capture team driven innovation ideas, consolidating across their peer group for playback up to stakeholders.

• Work in partnership with applicable product `vendors’, ensuring timely feature/product upgrades, maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the product.

• Minimize bespoke customization, and influence business process changes to best utilised vendor supplied products.

What You Will Bring:

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent) : Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering or Software Engineering.

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years’ experience in product in a ‘team facing’ capacity

• Experience managing Group Services products is highly desirable

• 3 to 5 years practical experience of working as a Product Manager, with proven record of driving discernible ideation, change and delivery

• Whilst not essential, experience of working within an Agile environment, across multiple initiatives and circa 50+ teams

• Possess strong communication skills and be able to enthusiastically convey your Product Vision to stakeholders and effectively influence a wide range of stakeholders across the organization.

• Leads by example, and demonstrates appetite and ability to grow to a senior leadership position

• A positive attitude and an ability to drive discernible change and delivery, at pace, in a pressurised environment

• Be a part of our Product community, focusing on collaboration and identifying opportunities of improvement and growth

• Agile and innovative mind-set with the tenacity to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing environment.

How You'll Work:

• Leading cross-functional teams - (Product Owner + Scrum Master + Developers + QA’s)

• We work within the Atlassian suite, maintaining our backlogs in JIRA and leveraging Confluence for knowledge management

• Customer centric mind-set, the customer is the focal point of delivering products, services, and experiences.

• Leveraging your domain knowledge and experience to solve complex business problems and support them in achieving their goals