Senior Product Manager - 14 month FTC (Maternity Cover)

Senior Product Manager - 14 month FTC (Maternity Cover)

Cardiff - Hybrid, 2 days per week in the office

Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple: take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover and Money.co.uk) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of household services.

The Role 

This Senior Product Manager (SPM) will lead a team of Product Managers focused on the discovery of opportunities and outcomes across our comparison journeys. The SPM will collaborate with senior leaders across the business to agree priority outcomes and user needs and focus on the development of their team to lead discovery through to testing and delivery. 

Important differences about this particular product role to set for candidates and recruiters:

• The individual will need a strong history of product discovery, able to coach and empower a team of PMs to lead discovery in their own areas, as well as leading discovery in cross-product areas. 

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

1. Product

• Coaches, develops and empowers a team of Product Managers to effectively use discovery to identify and validate product change
• Excites and engages people on the product vision
• Promotes domain expertise, data, and user research to make decisions
• Proactive collaboration with business leaders, design, product and other stakeholders

2. Process

• Leads on discovery whilst able to share best practice and techniques with their wider product team 
• Ensures outcomes are balanced effectively against different company goals
• Builds user/stakeholder feedback loops that provide valuable insight
• Communicates discovery outputs, plans and outcomes across a wide range of audiences from delivery teams through to senior leaders
• Define, maintain, advocates key metrics to measure impact of change

3. People Leadership

• Lead and collaborate with senior internal stakeholders on outcomes
• Takes ownership of leading on discovery finding solutions across people, process and technology
• Limit work in progress for the organisation by prioritising the most impactful initiatives  
• Evangelise and educate your colleagues and stakeholders on the strategy 

Technical and Behavioural Skills

• Strong Product Management background with experience of carrying out and leading on discovery processes with a team of Product, Engineering and Design (Rigour)
• A bias to action and ability to ‘get stuff done’, making every day count (Urgency) 
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to tailor your message according to your audience and influence a range of people from the Board through to a graduate

We want to give you a great work environment. We want to contribute to both your personal and professional development, and give you great benefits to make your time at Confused.com even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

• A competitive salary and bonus package
• Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
• Hybrid working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Annual leave of 25 days (excluding bank holidays) which will increase with length of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) and additional leave options
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Simply Health Scheme and access to the Calm app.
• Regular events - company-wide events with insightful external speakers as we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected
• A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
• Private medical scheme

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