167 Product Director jobs in the United Kingdom

About us

Avencia Consulting are partnered with a leading Specialty Insurer based in the City who are looking for a Product Director to join.

The role

You will be responsible for leading the vision, strategy, and execution of the product development roadmap for one of our key insurance and reinsurance-portfolio analytics software products (FireAnt). This role requires a balance of strategic thinking, leadership, and hands-on execution to drive product innovation, market success, and customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate will work within our analytics team and collaborate closely with IT, Finance, Data, Underwriting, and other key stakeholders to deliver best-in-class software products and data services.

FireAnt will be marketed to a select group of insurance partners in emerging markets such as the Middle East. The Product Director will be instrumental across the life cycle of a partnership, conducting initial market analysis, deal negotiation, implementation planning and ongoing client relations. You must ensure projects deliver on-time and to budget. As a liaison between internal business, external partners and technical functions you will be responsible for ensuring we deliver software services to the highest standards within varied regulated environments.

Key accountabilities

• Product Strategy & Vision: Develop and articulate a compelling product vision and strategy aligned with business goals and market opportunities. This will include close working on bids and pitching to external parties for partnership opportunities in key strategic regions
• Client Relationship Management: Oversee recruitment, onboarding, training and ongoing support of clients throughout their life cycle. This will involve travel to partners' offices across the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East
• Roadmap Development: Define, maintain, and communicate the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with internal and external customer needs, technological advancements, and competitive landscape
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with teams from across the business on requirements capture, design, service management, support and end-users to drive product initiatives from conception to launch
• Customer & Market Insights: Conduct market research, gather internal and customer user feedback, and analyse data to identify trends, opportunities, and areas for product improvement
• Stakeholder Management: Act as a leading advocate for the product internally and externally, engaging with executives, customers, and partners to ensure alignment and adoption
• Performance Measurement: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure progress, efficiency of resource use, team productivity, and product success, iterating based on data-driven insights
• Team Leadership & Development: Build and mentor a high-performing client relations team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, ownership, accountability and customer-centric thinking. Take a leading position in the strategic management of the existing development and support team (~10 people across London, Dublin, Bermuda)
• Collaboration: Work closely with technology teams (internal and external) and business leaders to refine requirements and translate business needs into product-centric solutions and make sure projects are coordinated correctly
• Manage risks, issues, deadlines, dependencies and be able to present up to date status reports at any time.
• Develop a deep understanding of the's business model, products and processes, leveraging this to deliver value-add services and product for its strategic partners.
• Keep stakeholders up to date on all activities that impact project outcomes and be a point contact for work status
• Estimate costs and headcount for projects and tasks, working closely with technical and business teams as needed
• Ensure the quality of any third-party deliveries against requirements, liaising with outsourced partners as necessary
• Act as an authoritative voice-of-customer representative.

Skills & experience

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in a relevant technology field (i.e. Engineering, Physics, Data Science)
• Minimum 10 years' experience in a technical product manager/product director role in a large enterprise/multinational organisation
• Experience managing and reporting on project and programme budgets
• Strong customer service mentality with the ability to develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong motivational and people skills, helping team members to excel in a culture of collaboration and openness
• Excellent organisation and time-management skills, able to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written with proven ability to influence change
• Able to deliver objectives assigned to you with a strong sense of urgency
• Drive and support innovation in a pragmatic and effective way to meet the needs of the business
• Industry Knowledge: Strong understanding of software development processes, SaaS business models, and emerging data technology analytics trends. Strong understanding of data analytics systems
• Strategic Thinking: Proven ability to develop and execute a product strategy that drives business growth.
• Technical Acumen: Comfortable working with engineering teams and understanding software architecture, APIs, and modern development practices
• Leadership & Communication: Excellent leadership, collaboration, and communication skills to influence and inspire teams
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Ability to balance business objectives with customer needs, ensuring an exceptional user experience
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Proficiency in analytics and experience leveraging data to inform product decisions
• Agile & Lean Methodologies: Fluent in Agile, Scrum, and Lean methodologies to drive efficient product development cycles
• Strong interest in AI, leveraging practical applications of AI wrt data analysis, automation of manual processes and data handling

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The Opportunity: Are you an ambitious product professional ready to elevate your career? We invite you to step into a pivotal role as a Product Director at K3 Fashion Solutions. Reporting directly to the Managing Director, you will craft and execute a product vision and roadmap that aligns with market demands and our strategic growth objectives.

About K3 Fashion: K3 is a leading provider of business‐critical software solutions focused on fashion and apparel brands and related large retail brands. The Group’s solutions comprise a number of applications authored by K3 and also third-party products that have been enriched with K3 software. These solutions provide customers with comprehensive, end-to-end capabilities that enable them to have greater control over their operations and real-time oversight of their businesses. The Group operates through two divisions, K3 Products and Third-party Solutions.

K3 Fashion solutions target the Fashion and Apparel Markets covering Retail, Wholesale and Manufacturing sectors with our products, K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone. We are a Microsoft recognised Global ISV and both our core products are embedded and enhance Microsoft’s ERP solutions, D365 Finance and supply chain and D365 Business Central respectively.

The strategic Product vision and roadmap will be based on input from internal stakeholders, customers, market research and the product director’s own industry/technology insight; working closely with the Managing Director, Product, Marketing and other K3 teams to deliver products to market that can deliver on the growth plans.

The Commercial Product Director will be responsible for product planning, guiding delivery and marketing throughout the product lifecycle. They will develop a forecast for the product based on input from marketing, sales, market analysts and their own experience and manage its delivery, identifying the key benefits and value of products to be used to create and maintain marketing plans and collateral (including web updates, product training materials and sales training).

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Vision: Develop and communicate a compelling product strategy that addresses current market needs and anticipates future trends.
• Lifecycle Management: Oversee the product lifecycle from ideation to sunset, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business goals.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with internal teams, customers, and partners to gather insights and requirements, ensuring our products exceed expectations.
• Market Analysis: Conduct thorough market research to inform product decisions and maintain a competitive edge.
• Team Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish metrics to assess product performance and implement improvements as needed.

What We’re Looking For:

• Strategic Thinker: You possess strong analytical skills and can translate complex data into actionable strategies.
• Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success in bringing products to market efficiently and profitably.
• Industry Insight: Experience in the Fashion industry within a global context is highly desirable.
• Technical Proficiency: Deep understanding of Microsoft technologies and ecosystems.
• Relationship Builder: Adept at managing relationships with customers, suppliers, and partners.
• Market Awareness: Keen understanding of external market forces and their implications for product strategy.
• Influential Leader: Ability to drive business processes and influence outcomes without direct authority.
• Cultural Agility: Experience working successfully in multicultural, matrixed environments.

Benefits

As a K3 employee, you can count on:

• An attractive salary

• An ambitious working atmosphere

• Hybrid working options: flexible combination of working from home and our modern offices in Bristol or Netherlands

• New Bristol City Centre office with virtually free Yoga and free gym opening this summer

• Appealing secondary benefits

At K3, we pride ourselves on offering equal opportunities regardless of race, nationality, cultural background, gender, age, marital status, maternity/pregnancy status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, religious or political belief.

We care that our business creates a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and can be themselves. We create a better and more sustainable business for our employees, our partners, the communities we work in and our customers through building non-discriminatory procedures and practices. At K3, every individual has an equal chance to apply and be selected for posts pre-employment and an equal chance to be trained and promoted while employed with the organisation.

Summary

As Product Director at IOE, you will lead the transformation of our product management practice, developing a high-performing team and ensuring that all products fit together cohesively to deliver a unified ecosystem. You will mentor the product management team in developing the product vision, strategy, and roadmaps while ensuring harmonisation across products. Your role will involve gathering community feedback to inform product direction, aligning emerging opportunities with market needs. You will report to the General Manager of IOE, providing regular updates on milestones and progress toward strategic objectives. Additionally, you will be tasked with crafting a robust strategy around IOE’s role in the vertical, leveraging both existing products and new opportunities within the ecosystem.

Duties

Mentor and build a high performance team

• Mentor and build a high-performance product management team. Guide Product Managers in delivering outcomes that provide sustainable value and ensure alignment between individual products and broader business goals.
• Make informed, analytical decisions to prioritise initiatives, ensuring the team focuses on the most impactful projects.
• Coach Product teams in setting and analysing product objectives, continuously evaluating performance and making improvements as needed.
• Drives strategic projects and initiatives in the business
• Lead, drive, and provide direction to the product managers to ensure their success and professional development through ongoing learning and development.
• Encourage a culture where great ideas are heard, evaluated, and invested in.

Global Product Strategy & Management 

• Collaborate with senior leadership to align the global product vision and strategy. Ensure that all products fit together harmoniously, creating a cohesive ecosystem
• Manage product lifecycle from strategic planning to tactical execution, incorporating insights from market research, customer feedback, and internal stakeholders.
• Execute roadmap strategies and bringing valuable, highly differentiated and elegantly designed capabilities to market

Customer Support 

• Engage with customers, partners, and community stakeholders to ensure their needs are reflected in product roadmaps and updates.
• Conduct market research, surveys and customer/prospect visits to understand and specify requirements for target markets
• Leverage customer input to refine and quantify the potential of new product opportunities.

Product Marketing, PR and Business Intelligence  

• Collaborate with marketing and design teams to understand community and industry needs, positioning products effectively in the market.
• Monitor competitive offerings, staying ahead of trends to ensure IOE products remain innovative and highly competitive.
• Engage with marketing and communications teams to inform users about product updates, ensuring smooth and transparent communication.

Cross-discipline collaboration (Business development, Product management , Operations, Technical Architecture ) 

• Managing the collection, description, analysis and prioritization of requests for new product functionality from customers, prospects, partners, sales, and market-driven forces
• Working with operations to gain awareness of potential defects and prioritizing their resolution in the product release plan and roadmap
• Working with Product Managers, Program Management & Engineering to ensure that features are delivered in the right sequence and meet business expectations in terms of quality, function and schedule. 
• Working with engineering and design teams to deliver a captivating, reliable, and easy to use experience with excellent UI.
• Providing support on product selection, presentations and pricing strategy.
• Collaborate closely with the technical architecture team to ensure alignment on system design, integration, and scalability, fostering efficient and scalable solutions across projects.

Technical Product management contributions 

• Providing technical guidance in evaluating applications systems or evaluating requests for proposals.
• Working in an Agile Product Development process creating well thought-out and consumable user stories

Leadership

As Leaders it is our responsibility to motivate, develop and progress our fellow team members. As a Leader there is a need to communicate openly with all members of your team, address any issues head on and not shy away from difficult conversations.

Empowering your team to provide the best results by organizing clear processes and coordinating team efforts should be your top priority.

Please read our Leadership at IO Global document for more information on your duties and responsibilities as a leader at IOG

Requirements

Key Competencies

• Leadership: Strong leadership and mentoring skills to build and inspire high-performing teams.
• Analytical Thinking: Data-driven decision-making capabilities with a focus on delivering the most impactful solutions.
• Product Harmonisation: A strategic mindset to ensure that all products fit together into a cohesive ecosystem.
• Community Engagement: Proven ability to gather and apply community feedback to guide product direction.
• Collaboration: Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills to work with engineering, marketing, and design teams.
• Innovation: Ability to stay ahead of market trends and drive product innovation in a competitive landscape.
• Technical Knowledge: Understanding of blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies, with an interest in emerging trends.

Education / Experience 

• Extensive senior experience in product management with several years in a leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience on highly successful ventures in tough, competitive markets. 
• Product Management certification is a plus (CPM, AIPMM)
• A background in distributed computing with at least 5 years of experience in blockchain or cryptocurrency technologies.
• Experience working in an Agile environment and leading highly technical engineering teams.
• Experience implementing processes to define metrics and measure the success of products that are launched.
• Experience working with software development and marketing teams,  preferably in fintech.
• BSc/BA in a relevant field; MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus.

Benefits

• Remote work
• Laptop reimbursement
• New starter package to buy hardware essentials (headphones, monitor, etc)
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Competitive PTO 

At IOG, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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