Salary: The starting salary will be from £49,250 to £56,921 on Grade G, depending on qualifications and experience.
Contractual hours: 36.5
Package: Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable).
Permanent, Full time (36.5 hours per week) Part time applications considered
Flexible Hybrid working: This is a hybrid role that offers flexible working between home and our Streatham Campus.
Job details
Are you an experienced product manager ready to take on a high-impact leadership role?
As our Senior Product Manager, you’ll take ownership of a portfolio of digital products, ensuring they meet user needs and align with the University’s strategic goals. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping product roadmaps, defining success metrics, and driving innovation. Leading a team of Product Managers, you’ll use your expertise to break down complex problems into clear deliverables, enabling your team to deliver high-quality outcomes.
You’ll work collaboratively across cross-functional teams, guiding Product Managers to deliver evidence-based solutions while aligning with Agile principles. Through effective communication and stakeholder management, you’ll prioritise development activities, navigate complex challenges, and ensure that all product initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest standard.
The Digital Product chapter enables the University to achieve the right outcomes targeted at improving the user experience and increasing revenue through:
* Product expertise: Taking ownership of our digital experiences, using data to inform priorities and championing great user experience.
* People expertise: Demonstrating collaboration and leadership at all levels of the organisation by understanding the needs of stakeholders and users, translating these into clear deliverables and defining a vision and roadmap to guide the direction of the product.
* Process expertise: Applying agile methodologies and practices to effectively plan and deliver strategic initiatives, as well as manage change demand for their product to continuously deliver incremental value.
Benefits:
* Substantial annual leave package of 41 days!
* Benefit from fantastic discounts at local and national shops through numerous discount schemes including TOTUM cards.
* We'll take your personal and professional development seriously and empower you to keep developing your expert skills and give you access to the latest technologies and platforms.
* Discounted state-of-the-art fitness centres on all our campuses.
* Sustainable travel initiative: enjoy discounts on bus passes, cycle to work scheme and taking advantage of car sharing incentives. Save money and reduce your carbon footprint.
* Recognition and Rewards: We have multiple schemes that help us celebrate your contributions.
* Stunning campus locations in Exeter and Cornwall.
We’re really looking for:
* Proven leadership experience in product management, driving product strategy, roadmaps, and outcomes.
* Expertise in Agile and Lean practices, coaching teams and adapting approaches for success.
* Strong ability to translate business objectives and user needs into impactful product solutions.
* Skilled in collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align on goals and priorities.
* Data-driven decision-maker with experience in defining and monitoring product success metrics.
* Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop product management professionals.
* Passionate advocate for user-centric design principles and innovation.
* Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Adaptable, resilient, and able to manage complex, high-risk, or sensitive product portfolios.
* Experience working within a large complex environment would be desirable.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role by clicking on the attachment.
Apply with your CV and a cover letter telling us how your skills line up to what we’re looking for!
At the University of Exeter, we're embarking on an exciting journey of digital transformation that will reshape the way we educate, research, and collaborate. Our commitment to embracing cutting-edge digital technologies and fostering digital skills development is at the heart of our mission.
We work in an agile way and have organised the team into chapters (groups of people with the same skill sets) and squads (made up of people from the chapters who can work autonomously and to their own goals). Our users will be at the heart of everything we do and we’ll develop new ways to deliver value, make things easier and generate new income along the way.
Our new team of visionaries is tasked with supporting the University of Exeter 2030 strategy, focusing on:
* Simplifying and enhancing the end-to-end digital experience, augmented with physical elements.
* Identifying and testing new opportunities through rich data and insights.
* Developing innovative digital products, services, and platforms.
* Cultivating digital capability, encompassing skills, structure, working methods, technology, data, leadership, and culture.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment:
Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community.
For any further information please contact Eve Carney, Head of Product: e.carney2@exeter.ac.uk
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