Product Manager, Digital, Media Markets

Product Manager, Digital, Media Markets

This organization is one of the leading global technology providers of omnichannel commercial Sales solutions to the Media Market.

They help media brands word-wide with their ground breaking solutions to help optimize their sales performance and help their multi-channel businesses grow revenue.

It’s an exciting time in media – rapid advances in digital media sales are driving forward new ways of selling and new capabilities to reach and engage with audiences. This, in turn is opening up new revenue streams and growth opportunities for media organisations globally. As Product Manager for our client you will be bringing to this role your expertise in best practice cross-channel digital media operations – applying this knowledge to shape and develop a new ground-breaking digital OMS strategy for a new generation media world.

Key responsibilities

· Develop a deep insight of product and customer usage and requirements of the Digital solution – to help you apply to the creation of the most appropriate product strategy and approach

· Draw on the existing customer base via forum groups, steering committees and panels to assess product performance, customer needs and to validate and test new feature ideas and designs

· Develop a deep insight of product and customer usage and requirements of the Digital solution – to help you apply to the creation of the most appropriate product strategy and approach

· Draw on the existing customer base via forum groups, steering committees and panels to assess product performance, customer needs and to validate and test new feature ideas and designs

· Write Epics or detailed specifications that arms development with the intelligence, user requirements and business context to deliver the best solution to meet user and product needs

· Closely co-ordinate with architects, developers, customer and in-house testers and support to successfully develop and deliver the product to market

Ideal Experience

· Direct experience within the media market including senior operational or tech responsibility for the development and management of systems and solutions supporting digital commercial media operations and delivery (in-house or vendor). This includes owned and operated sold and served, programmatic and digital broadcasting channels. Knowledge/experience of buyside and other media sales management (print etc) a bonus but not essential.

· Current and cutting-edge understanding of the latest digital media practices and trends

• Ability to turn a product vision into a reality by translating business needs into successful technical requirements
• Proven experience in using data and insight to drive direction