Product Development Manager

Foresters Financial; Bromley; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services seeks a Product Development Manager to shape the new retail consumer mobile application. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in mobile product development within financial services, ensuring a compelling customer-centric experience. This role involves collaboration across teams and prioritizing customer needs, making it critical for successful product outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Services.
• Experience in a digital product/proposition manager role.
• Understanding of UI/UX principles.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute the product strategy for a new mobile application.
• Collaborate with internal teams and third-party partners.
• Gather and analyze customer needs and market trends.

Skills

Mobile product development

Financial services experience

Customer-focused mindset

Strong communication skills

Analytical problem-solving

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We are looking for an experienced Product Manager, who wants to get involved in helping shape and execute Foresters’ product and proposition strategy.

You will responsible for shaping and delivering a new retail consumer facing mobile application proposition for Foresters. It involves defining the app’s vision, developing its core features, and managing its end-to-end delivery to ensure a compelling, customer-centric digital experience.

The position requires close collaboration with internal teams and third-party partners, translating customer needs and business objectives into functional requirements and engaging user journeys.

You must have strong experience in mobile product development, particularly within financial services, and a solid understanding of regulatory frameworks such as the FCA Consumer Duty.

Your day to day will include:

• Gathering and understanding customer needs, competitive landscape, and market trends to inform the application’s development
• Identifying priority problems to solve and customer needs to meet, ensuring propositions are commercially viable, technically feasible and usable for customers
• Discover and prioritise optimisation opportunities that allow for continuous improvement of product outcomes and experience for customer
• Collaboration with 3rd parties, technical product managers, designers, developers, and marketing teams. Ensuring adherence to contractual agreements and best practices and product requirements as set out by Foresters
• Managing stakeholders with interactions at Board Level.
• Work cross functionally with different teams of subject matter experts
• Support the shaping and end-to-end delivery of the mobile application’s vision and strategy
• Identify special requirements/needs of vulnerable customers, recommending propositional features and supporting business practices to deliver good customer outcomes
• Leverage data, customer insights, market research and regulations, to confidently pull out the ‘so-what’s to inform business decision making and continuously improving our products
• Present updates, recommendations and where required, training, in an engaging and easily understandable way for colleagues
• Work with our Compliance team in the identification and assessment of any risks that are identified
• Champion good customer outcomes and a customer-focussed culture in the organisation

Working hours are 35 hours a week Monday to Friday. Start times can vary from 8am to 9.30am. After a successful training period there is flexibility to work from home up to 2 days a week.

What we require

• Experience in Financial Services
• Experience in a similar digital product/ proposition manager role
• Experience working with 3rd parties/ external agencies and product developers
• Experience of new product development and relevant processes/principles
• Ability to translate technical information into clear and concise messaging (for internal and external purposes)
• Understanding of user interface/ user experience (UI/UX) principles
• Evidence of a customer-focused mindset with proven ability to balance customer experience with commercial objectives
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated experience of applying strategic thinking balanced with delivery
• Effective planning, organisation, analytical and problem-solving skills. Confident interpreting and working with customer and business data.
• Collaborative team player

This is a 6 month fixed term contract. Salary will be dependant on experience up to £65,000 per annum. Sounds exciting? Don’t delay apply today.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management and Marketing

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