Lead Product Manager

AWTG Ltd.; West Midlands, Tipton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

AWTG Ltd. is seeking a Lead Product Manager to emphasize product leadership across multiple teams and services. The candidate will drive the product strategy, vision, and roadmap while ensuring alignment with business goals. Responsibilities include influencing stakeholders, managing dependencies, and coaching product managers in Agile practices. Ideal candidates should possess extensive experience in product management and strong skills in stakeholder management. This role offers a dynamic environment to create valuable products for users and the organization.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product management across complex digital products.
• Strong skills in defining product strategy, vision, and roadmaps.
• Expert in stakeholder management and influencing.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy, vision, and roadmap across multiple products.
• Balance user needs, business priorities, and technical constraints.
• Coach product managers and support Agile and product management practices.

Skills

Product management experience

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

User-centred design

Coaching product managers

Job description

Role overview

The Lead Product Manager will provide product leadership across a portfolio, service area or major client programme. The role sets vision, strategy and roadmap direction, ensuring products deliver value for users and the organisation while supporting teams to deliver high-quality outcomes. You will work with multidisciplinary teams across data, AI, software engineering, product, QA and delivery to create practical outcomes for clients and end users.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the product strategy, vision and roadmap across multiple products, teams or services.
• Balance user needs, business priorities, technical constraints and value for money when making product decisions.
• Coach and support product managers, helping teams apply Agile, Lean and product management practices effectively.
• Own senior stakeholder relationships and influence strategic decisions using evidence and user insight.
• Ensure product outcomes, KPIs and success measures are defined, reviewed and continuously improved.
• Manage risks, dependencies and life cycle decisions across discovery, delivery, live service and retirement.

Essential skills and experience

• Extensive product management experience across complex digital products, services or portfolios.
• Strong ability to define product strategy, vision, roadmaps, outcomes and prioritised delivery plans.
• Expert stakeholder management skills, including influencing and negotiating at senior levels.
• Strong understanding of Agile and Lean delivery, user‑centred design and evidence‑based decision‑making.
• Experience coaching product managers and leading product practice across teams.
• Ability to manage dependencies, risks and value decisions across the product life cycle.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience in consultancy, public‑sector, regulated or enterprise product environments.
• Experience contributing to business cases, service standards, portfolio governance or programme planning.
• Familiarity with analytics, research, experimentation and product performance measurement.

What success looks like

• Product strategy is clear, evidence‑based and aligned to business goals.
• Teams deliver measurable outcomes and high‑quality product increments.
• Stakeholders understand the roadmap, trade‑offs and value being delivered.