Lead, Product Management

Royal Caribbean Group; Weybridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Caribbean Group is seeking a Lead Product Manager to oversee Contact Centre Technology products across their lifecycle, aligning governance, investment planning and delivery with business value. You will collaborate with the Senior Manager, Product Leads and stakeholders to translate demand into clear outcomes.

This role requires strategic analysis, portfolio oversight and the ability to drive prioritisation across a global technology portfolio, with a focus on Genesys Cloud familiarity

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, or Strategy roles.
• Experience with contact centre technology and governance.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders in a global organisation.
• Proven ability to own roadmaps and measurable product outcomes.
• Expertise in business cases and technology funding proposals.
• Strong workshop facilitation and requirements gathering skills.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain product plans, roadmaps and prioritised backlogs for assigned Contact Centre Technology products or capability domains.
• Partner with business stakeholders, other Product Leads and technology teams to identify future requirements and cross-domain impacts.
• Analyse priorities and translate them into product recommendations with visibility on risks and dependencies.
• Lead product-management activity across the lifecycle from intake to retirement recommendations.
• Support annual and multi-year planning and monitor trends across Contact Centre, AI, automation and CX technologies.
• Produce portfolio health reporting, executive dashboards and governance documentation.
• Manage the GET Intake process for Contact Centre Technology and review requests for completeness and alignment.
• Facilitate intake workshops and track initiative status and governance.
• Coordinate with Architecture, Privacy, Security, Procurement and Finance on priorities.
• Develop cost estimates, ROI analyses and investment proposals and track budget vs forecast.
• Provide updates to leadership and support executive communications and presentations.
• Lead day-to-day functional guidance to Product Analysts.

Skills

Product Management

Product Ownership

Business Analysis

Technology Governance

Portfolio Management

Financial Analysis

Excel

PowerPoint

Stakeholder Management

Executive Reporting

Jira

Azure DevOps

Genesys Cloud

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Genesys Cloud

Job description

Journey with us!

Combine your career goals and sense of adventure by joining our Global Contact Centre IT Team. Royal Caribbean Group is pleased to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, and excellent career development opportunities, each offering unique ways to explore the world.

Position Summary

The Lead Product Manager supports Contact Centre Technology products across their full lifecycle, ensuring product needs, priorities, governance, investment planning and delivery outcomes are managed in an integrated and product-aligned way.

Working closely with the Senior Manager, Product Leads and business stakeholders, the role supports product planning, demand management, business case development, financial oversight and performance visibility across Contact Centre Technology.

The role is a key liaison between business stakeholders, Product Leads, project teams and Global Enterprise Technology (GET), ensuring business demand is captured, assessed, prioritised and translated into clear product outcomes. The successful candidate provides strategic analysis, governance leadership and portfolio oversight while helping reduce reliance on broad roadmap dependencies by strengthening product ownership, clarity of scope, decision-making and alignment to business value.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Own and maintain product plans, roadmaps and prioritised backlogs for assigned Contact Centre Technology products or capability domains, within the strategy, portfolio priorities, governance framework and financial guardrails established by the Senior Manager
• Knowledge of Genesys Cloud or an equivalent contact centre platform
• Partner with business stakeholders, other Product Leads and technology teams to identify future requirements, product opportunities and cross-domain impacts
• Analyse business priorities and translate them into product recommendations, maintaining visibility of risks, assumptions, constraints and cross-product impacts and escalating decisions that affect the overall portfolio roadmap
• Lead product-management activity for assigned products across the lifecycle, from intake and requirements through funding, governance, delivery readiness, adoption, benefits tracking, optimisation, renewal, replacement and retirement recommendations
• Support annual and multi-year planning and monitor trends across Contact Centre, AI, automation and customer experience technologies
• Support management of the Contact Centre Technology investment portfolio, tracking initiative progress, dependencies, risks and benefits realisation
• Produce portfolio health reporting, executive dashboards and governance documentation
• Identify opportunities to improve portfolio visibility, governance, prioritisation and resource planning processes
• Manage the day-to-day operation of the GET Intake process for Contact Centre Technology
• Review incoming requests for completeness, business justification and strategic alignment, ensuring requirements, success criteria and expected outcomes are captured
• Facilitate intake workshops and stakeholder reviews; maintain visibility of submitted, approved, deferred and rejected initiatives; and escal
• requests requiring portfolio-level decisions
• Support prioritisation and sequencing and coordinate intake activities with Architecture, Privacy, Security, Procurement and Finance
• Lead the definition and validation of business and product requirements for assigned products, delegating detailed analysis and documentation to shared Product Analysts where appropriate
• Facilitate workshops to define scope, objectives and success measures and identify associated impacts, risks and dependencies
• Support the preparation of Capital Appropriation Requests (CARs), business cases and investment proposals
• Develop cost estimates, benefit assessments and return-on-investment analysis
• Track approved investment against budget and support forecasting, annual planning, financial reporting and benefits realisation
• Support governance reviews and approval processes, ensuring initiatives comply with applicable standards and controls
• Own and maintain RAID logs, decision registers and governance documentation for assigned products, supporting audit and compliance activity
• Provide updates on portfolio performance, roadmap progress and investment decisions and support executive communications and presentations
• Help stakeholders understand product priorities, trade-offs, cross-product impacts and decision points
• Operate agreed entry, exit and hand-off criteria across Strategy and Governance, Technical, Programme Management and Production Applications
• Provide day-to-day functional leadership to Product Analysts

Required Knowledge And Skills

• Significant experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Technology Governance or Strategy roles
• Hands on involvement of Contact Centre technology strategy, governance, portfolio management
• Experience working within complex global organisations and influencing senior technology and business stakeholders
• Experience owning and maintaining product or capability roadmaps, prioritised backlogs and measurable product outcomes within a broader technology portfolio
• Expertise in developing business cases and technology funding proposals
• Experience facilitating workshops and gathering requirements from senior stakeholders
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, financial analysis and reporting capabilities
• Experience working in a complex global organisation and creating executive-level reports, dashboards and presentations
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to prioritise effectively, manage competing demands and work in a fast-paced global environment
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally on occasions when needed

Desirable

• Relevant certification in Business Analysis, Product Management, Portfolio Management, Agile, Project Management or IT Service Management
• Contact Centre Technology experience and knowledge of Genesys Cloud or a similar platform
• Experience supporting AI, automation, CRM, omnichannel engagement or digital transformation programmes
• Knowledge of PCI compliance, data privacy and governance controls
• Experience supporting CARs and familiarity with Agile delivery methods and tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps

It is the policy of the Company to ensure equal employment and promotion opportunity to qualified candidates without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, sexuality, gender identity or expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Royal Caribbean Group and each of its subsidiaries prohibit and will not tolerate discrimination or harassment.

Thank you again for your interest in Royal Caribbean Group. We'll hope to see you onboard soon!