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Avance Consulting

Product Manager

Hybrid

London, United Kingdom

Freelance

22-04-2025

Job Specifications

Product Manager
Paddington (London), England (Hybrid Work)
Contract

Job Description:
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The Product Manager will shape the product vision to drive business outcomes, balancing priorities influenced by customer needs, product health and industry trends.
The mission is to collaborate closely with many disciplines across the business to design and deliver desirable resilient solutions to the market.
The role is the embodiment of & All in for the customer.

Responsibilities:
1.Management of product(s) with a high level of autonomy that leads to the delivery of significant measurable value
2. Creation and clear communication of the strategic vision of the product with defined OKRs
3. Collaborate closely with partners aligning business, product and technical priorities to set the product direction, promote the product roadmap and continually improve.
4. Demonstrate a good understanding of user experience (UX) design and research methods
5. Demonstrate a good level of technical understanding within your product and understand how your product interacts with all areas of the business
6. Manage the backlog and contribute to any overall prioritization process
7. Create business cases or lean canvas as required that include market analysis, costs and business/user benefit.
8. Ensures Product measures of success are defined, tracked and communicated
9. Apply lean practices while delivering value through iterative development i.e. Minimum Viable Product(MVP)
10. Support the teams to successfully adopt DevOps, supporting in the triage and resolution of major incidents where required and collaborating with Engineering and Technical Programme Management to ensure operational success.
11. Drive launch readiness collaborating closely with all parties to ensure adoption
12. Pro-actively identifies and applies insight from customer research, data analytics, market and competitor analysis to ensure is best in class.
13. Uses and generates high value from product optimisation, experimentation techniques and user science tools to validate ideas and influence the products.
14. Operates as a mentor and coach to Associate Product Managers and actively contributes to the wider Product culture acting as a Product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
15. Line Manager to XX ensuring that the functions of these positions are properly and effectively being executed, encouraging collaborate 360 feedback interactions from the community, stakeholders & team.

Skills/Knowledge & Experience:
Product Management, experienced in building and delivering high value products through defining vision, roadmap, successful product execution and launches, delivering immense value to the business.
Understanding of Retail Domain and In-store experience, tools and technologies
Experience in using tools like Jira, Confluence, Monday etc. for product management and team management
Good to understand system designs, SDLC, DevOps and technology around Microservices architecture, Domain driven design etc.
Good to understand cloud technologies especially Azure and relevant technologies around the same.

About the Company

Avance Consulting is a global organization focused on delivering innovative talent solution services to some of the most renowned companies in the world, across industries that include Information Technology, Financial Services, Media and Entertainment, Telecom, FMCG, and Healthcare. Our deep understanding of the domains that we focus on is our key strategic differentiator. Our team of over 600 professionals are from a range of distinct industry sectors and utilize their vast professional networks and business knowledge to ... Know more

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