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About the role
You will be responsible for ensuring the proper balance between business needs, technology options, and user experience to maximize product value and increase efficiency. You will act as the "voice" of the customer, translating customer needs to the Agile team by properly codifying intent, sizing work efforts, prioritizing needs, and summarizing issues. You will act as a senior product voice in the region and will engage with senior stakeholders across various business lines within Investment Management.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
* Develop and communicate a comprehensive vision, product road-map, and articulate the short-term and long-term strategy holistically for your business value chain, ensuring tight alignment to business strategy and OKRs.
* Work closely with designers, engineers, and business professionals in a collaborative environment to create strategic, product road-maps; focus on relationship building with all levels of stakeholders, including senior leadership to drive product vision, strategy, & execution timelines.
* Draw upon customer insights to drive the software product vision and direction; Provide leadership in identifying and defining ongoing product features that align with business strategy.
* Define software solutions that CBRE's technical teams can deliver. Represent the customer to the technical teams, answering questions about client expectations.
* Hands-on management of day-to-day execution of product delivery, with a focus on building a competitive and differentiating data backed digital advantage.
* Stay up to date on industry trends, anticipate future market needs, and stay abreast of investment management trends and digital advancements.
* Work in close collaboration with Data and Data Science teams to drive product embedded analytics and associated insights.
* Lead product delivery collaboration across business, engineering and data teams, as well as partner on user onboarding, change management and continued product satisfaction.
* Effectively run governance forums and manage product budgets and overall team performance.
* Use technical and product expertise to prioritize deliverables and manage backlog of requests. Owns the product backlog & road-map.
* Facilitate discussions, user story development and refinement, and testing and validation; contributes to roadblock resolution and decision making.
* Provide regular updates; manage executive stakeholder communication and reporting.
* Act as a single point of contact for ongoing support and services. Prioritize needs, engage various technical teams, as needed, route requests to correct owners, and ensure support is provided to internal or external satisfaction.
* Actively engage in Agile process, including daily scrum sessions, demos, and testing activities, as well as training and change management activities, as needed.
* Manage changes to features and communication to ensure there is clear indication of what is required for each release.
* Assist the team in sizing and breaking down Epic into a manageable size to accommodate the release cadence. Writes user stories and cases, as needed.
* Lead a team of high performing product owners through the product life-cycle and development processes, while instituting and driving mature product management discipline and process adherence.
Supervisory Responsibilities
In this role you will be responsible for overseeing a small team of product owners. Provide informal assistance such as technical guidance, and/or training to coworkers. May lead project teams and/or plan and supervise assignments of lower-level employees.
What do you have to offer us?
* You will have 8-12 years of experience in a relevant sector, preferably private equity, asset management, or financial services (B2B, highly regulated environment), or commercial property. Previous roles must have been held within digital product teams, adhering to industry recognized frameworks.
* You have completed your education at university level in a related field of work or equivalent work experience. Requires technical and business knowledge in multiple disciplines/processes.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong organizational and analytical skills. Ability to effectively present information to senior stakeholders and groups.
* Ability to research, comprehend, analyse, and interpret complex documents accurately. Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires advanced analytical and quantitative skills. Ability to solve problems of moderate complexity.
What do we offer you?
* An attractive and performance-related compensation, in line with your background, skills and personal value for the organization and a (discretionary) bonus;
* An open, cooperative and dynamic company culture with flat hierarchies and short decision-making processes;
* Challenging work in an expanding and global real estate company;
* Become an integral part of our team, in which your ideas are greatly valued;
* Many learning & development opportunities and motivated and highly professional colleagues;
* Modern workplace in the heart of London;
* (Cash) car allowance;
* Pension scheme & Life Assurance;
* Private medical insurance;
* Two community leave days (leave days that can be used for a 'Diversity day' or a 'Day to volunteer' or two days to volunteer);
* 30 days of annual leave + 2 extra days for Christmas;
* Other benefits (like Season Ticket Loans);
We are an inclusive employer and consider diversity to be critical to innovation. People are our greatest resource, and we encourage applicants who partially fit the above criteria to apply if they feel the posting has not captured their relevant strengths. #CBREIM
Investment Management
CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm operating in over 30 offices and 20 countries around the world. Through its investor-operator culture, the firm seeks to deliver sustainable investment solutions across real assets categories, geographies, risk profiles and execution formats so that its clients, users, people and communities thrive.
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