Lead Product Manager – Finance – Hybrid/remote – London

Lead Product Manager – Finance – Hybrid/remote – London

Day rate: £500 – £700 (OUTSIDE IR35)

Duration: 3 – 6 months

Start: ASAP

My new client is looking for a Lead Product Manager to start as soon as possible on a contract basis.

Description:

• Product domains meet the wider needs of clients to facilitate the move away from the legacy platform
• Deliverables are operationally supportable, secure and scalable
• Driving continuous improvements across the product domains and solving
• Be the business single point of contact for a specified functional domain.
• Working with the product domain cross functional team to:
  • Capture and document clear user stories or standard feature overview
  • Capture estimates for roadmap and sprint planning
  • Prioritise the backlog to deliver and a focus on adding value to the business
  • Package the service for in terms materials for clients, operations and client delivery team to roll out the feature
  • Where required support and address impediments outside of the team
  • Give the development teams clear business context and measurable business objectives to motivate and get buy in to deliver on time
    • Rationalising the business case to prioritise the backlog in line with strategy, including:
      • New features
      • Fixing or optimising existing elements
      • Operational improvements including security, monitoring and visibility into the health and behaviour of the domain.
      • Understand business cases and be able to arbitrate between requests, challenging requests where appropriate with relevant data.

• Independently managing the implementation of requirements from shaping through to build, acceptance testing and rollout end-to-end.
• Monitor development delivery while identifying, challenging and overcoming delays and obstacles
• Removing impediments and minimizing disruption to maximise development efficiency
• Planning, effort estimations, and status reporting
• Support other team members to achieve company objectives along with promoting a positive collaborative atmosphere
• Packaging of the services/features for clients, operations and the delivery teams to rollout the feature.

Requirements:

• Must be a self-starter, to progress new features with the team without the need to be micro-managed or drip fed. Takes the initiative and will actively find out missing details or unblock issues without waiting to be told what to do.
• Prioritise product domain backlogs and ensure wider strategic deliverable are completed on time
• Designing standard functionality wherever possible and considering the wider needs (rather than a single client)
• Experience of working closely with Business Analysts and Developers in a collaborative way
• Driving continuous improvement
• Familiar with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Can assess & carry out data analysis to make better informed decisions.
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment, juggling multiple priorities against deadlines