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Founded in 2002, Exponential-e swiftly established itself as a UK Cloud, Connectivity and Communications pioneer. Throughout our history, a focus upon leveraging leading-edge technology to deliver profitable and innovative services to our clients and prospects has resulted in industry and peer recognition for our ground-breaking approach, a truly world-class ICT services company.
We’re a company of innovators who think big and achieve bigger! Our people are crucial to the continuing success of our company. From our CEO to our new Graduates, each of our people demonstrates our PRIDE principles which are at the core of everything we do.
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Job Purpose:
As the Group Product Manager for Systems Development, you will lead multiple product teams, driving a cohesive strategy for enterprise systems and automation platforms. You will ensure that our platforms, and automation tools deliver scalable, secure, and AI-powered solutions that drive business impact.
You will manage a team of Product Owners, and Business Analysts, fostering a high-performance culture focused on continuous innovation, rapid iteration, and business agility.
Key Features:
- Strategic: Define and execute the strategic direction for enterprise systems, ensuring scalability, security, and alignment with business goals.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a bridge between technology, business units, and leadership, ensuring seamless communication and cross-functional collaboration.
- Innovation & Technology: Foster a culture of innovation by leveraging AI, automation, and analytics to enhance system capabilities and drive business impact.
- Team Leadership: Lead and mentor Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners, promoting Agile best practices and continuous improvement.
Principal Accountabilities
- Strategy Execution: Develop and maintain a cohesive product strategy that aligns with long-term business objectives and ensures system adaptability.
- Product Vision & Roadmap: Own the product roadmap, translating business needs into system solutions while driving efficiency and integration.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with key stakeholders to align technology investments with strategic business outcomes and present updates on key initiatives.
- Agile & Data-Driven Decision Making: Champion Agile methodologies, leveraging data insights and KPIs to measure success and optimize prioritisation.
- Product Performance: Monitor and refine products based on analytics, customer feedback, and evolving business requirements.
We're seeking individuals with:
- Proven leadership in Product Management, leading product teams in systems development and digital transformation.
- Strong expertise in automation, APIs, cloud platforms, and enterprise SaaS.
- Experience in Agile frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban) and DevOps best practices.
- Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills.
- A results-oriented, analytical mindset with a focus on data-driven decision-making.
- A Bachelor's in Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field.
Competency
Demonstrated Behaviours
Analytical Thinking
- Develops and uses clear criteria for guiding decisions (e.g. resources, constraints, organisational values).
- Identifies cause and effect relationships and root causes.
- Understands and evaluates numerical data, tables, charts, or graphs to get to the cause of a problem.
- Performs calculations and combines quantitative information in order to diagnose and solve a problem.
- Adjusts strategies to changes in the environment.
- Adopts means of communication and interaction that suit different cultures.
- Decides courses of action in ways that take account of different environments and cultures.
Ability to Learn
- Quickly understands and uses processes, technologies and ideas that are continually being updated.
- Is open to and understands new ideas.
- Learns highly complex information regarding a product or operation.
Innovativeness
- Produces imaginative or unique responses to a problem.
- Generates alternatives before settling on a solution.
- Develops new approaches to improve or replace existing procedures or systems.
Flexibility
- Open to having their views challenged
- Willing to modify their own behaviour when presented with a credible alternative approach
- Open to taking a different approach when necessary to assist in reaching a goal or target.