Product Management Manager UK Remote Competitive plus Bonus and Benefits Our Product team are hiring and we have a fantastic opportunity for a Product Management Manager to build & shape the Payroll Managed Services offering, and IRIS’s go forward HCM solutions - Staffology Bureau, Staffology HR and Every HR. This role will be responsible and accountable for part of the Software & Service roadmap ensuring it aligns with the overarching IRIS strategic HCM roadmap of development and migration from heritage platforms, while delivering short-term tactical improvements to customers & colleagues alike. You will be responsible for articulating the commercial prioritisation of the backlog, creating business cases for larger initiatives & developments, and managing a team of Product Owners/Managers that own strategic functions within the Managed Service delivery. The role also requires you to ensure the product & value proposition meets the needs of the customer within a competitive marketplace, alongside working with operational & finance stakeholders to define the service levels & pricing are balanced to deliver value & return to both the customers and shareholders. What will you be doing? Liaise with key stakeholders to ascertain priorities for development In conjunction with product owners, document top-level requirements to enable engineering to create t-shirt sizing with detailed effort & costs Road mapping future engineering work, based on the above priorities, sizing and costings - to deliver maximum return on investment Continually challenge stakeholders on short-term disposable vs long-term strategic development within heritage platforms & the wider IRIS HCM function With Product Owners, create detailed & articulate bugs, stories, features and EPICs via JIRA & DevOps to allow engineering to understand & refine tickets Maintain the Priority List via Jira & DevOps to enable sprint planning via engineering working closely with the Product & Operational Directors in the shaping and delivery of the managed service offering To work with customers and colleagues via commercial and operational stakeholders to understand their short-term immediate needs and long-term aspirations to prioritise for the product, service, or technology roadmap/s To understand the market and competitors and seek out enhancements to give the payroll & HR service solution a competitive advantage. Manage the internal stakeholders across sales, marketing, support, legal, compliance, professional services, and engineering Keep a regular pulse check with customers / prospect via shadowing sales conversations, creating & hosting user-groups and conducting insight surveys Support the creation & maintenance of sales enablement collateral such as proposal documentation, sales presenters and brochureware. Ensuring that our marketing articulates the value proposition of our managed service solutions to drive increased MQLs Maintaining contractual suite & solution descriptions for our managed services propositions Maintaining the front-book commercials & rate-card/s alongside operational and finance stakeholders What are we seeking? Background must include product management with payroll. The ability to work within a wider product team to ensure payroll product is compliant and fits in with the wider business strategy. Experience of working within product or dev management roles within UK payroll, with a good knowledge of payroll & HR processes/legislation Passion for technology and a drive to find the best solution Passion for people and establishing motivated, highly driven teams: caring about process, quality, setting and managing expectations Understanding of modern lean agile software development processes Experience of working with Key stakeholders to agree the roadmap deliverables, such as engineering, operations, finance & Professional Services Experience of competitive analysis and understanding the market Excellent analytical skills for establishing market trends by assessing multiple data points. Personality to work with fast-paced, dynamic, and challenging business environment Must show a commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction Experience of transformational/efficiency projects would be beneficial Ability to lead simultaneous initiatives in an entrepreneurial culture. Demonstrable experience of engaging with and putting the customer first Multi-task oriented with desire to work in a fast-paced environment. Self-starter, challenger, strategic planner, analytical thinker Proven experience of successfully launching new products Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Please note: We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.