Senior Product Manager - Navigation Systems

Senior Product Manager
2-3 days in Somerset
£675 per day
12 month contract initially

The Senior Product Manager will lead the strategy, performance and lifecycle of a portfolio of new products.

The Senior Product Manager will be tasked with translating how our clients new products address new market wide legal regulations and defining a customer proposition to drive growth, innovation, and customer value.

The role will be working on Navigation Systems so experience working in aerospace, automotive or maritime is highly desired.

Responsibilities

You will lead a small team of Product Managers and work cross-functionally to deliver customer-focused solutions.
Own and deliver the strategic direction and product roadmap for your portfolio, ensuring alignment with the Corporate Plan and wider organisational priorities.
Take full commercial accountability for portfolio performance, including revenue, margin, growth, pricing strategy and investment prioritisation.
Define and execute the portfolio strategy, managing products across the full lifecycle to maximise customer value and sustainable growth.
Develop robust, insight-led business cases to secure investment and support strategic product decisions.
Build a deep understanding of customer needs, market trends and competitor activity to identify opportunities and shape priorities.
Use customer insight, performance data and experimentation to continuously improve products and guide investment decisions.
Partner with the Head of Product and Services and other senior stakeholders to agree strategic themes, assumptions and constraints.
Lead, coach and develop a team of Product Managers, strengthening capability in product thinking, commercial decision-making and customer-centric delivery.
You will need to be able to demonstrate experience considering a wide range of factors – supply costs and legal agreements, regulatory requirements, production costs, costs of sales, competitor products, value to customer and ROI
Maintaining a clearly differentiated set of products and services in an increasingly competitive and cost sensitive market
Experience working in an environment with a high degree of regulation and strong commercial pressures
Review a portfolio of legacy products to maximise their value to the business, developing strategies to extend their productive life and determine the right time and mechanism for their retirement
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed