Product Lead, Tech Delivery & Stakeholder Strategy

LGBT Great Careers; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two annual Mankind days for community

Flexible working arrangements

Diversity initiatives

Job summary

Man Group, a global investment management firm headquartered in London, seeks a Product Lead to augment Engineering Management, ensuring delivery initiatives are planned, coordinated and run efficiently to maximise value. You will coordinate across teams, shape delivery goals, manage features and fixes, and communicate with stakeholders to secure buy-in and clear milestones.

The role requires delivery leadership in a regulated financial services context with strong SDLC and platform engineering

Qualifications

• Proven project or delivery management experience running technology initiatives end to end.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels of an organisation.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into clear, prioritised delivery plans with well-defined scope, milestones and dependencies.
• Sound understanding of software engineering practices, delivery lifecycles and the tooling that supports them.
• Track record of running complex, multi-team delivery initiatives, managing scope, schedule, risks and dependencies, and balancing competing priorities to deliver measurable business value.

Responsibilities

• Engineering collaboration: Coordinate work across teams, removing blockers to meet commitments.
• Delivery strategy: Input to goals and initiatives, shaping the sequence of delivery.
• Delivery planning: Define, estimate and sequence features and fixes with milestones.
• Stakeholder management: Build relationships and report progress, resolving impediments.
• Delivery governance: Run cadence, planning sessions, risk logs and post-delivery reviews.
• Subject matter expertise: Understand business drivers and engineering tools supporting them.

Skills

Delivery management

Stakeholder management

Delivery planning

Software engineering understanding

Multi‑team leadership

Education

PRINCE2 / PMP / Scrum / SAFe qualifications

Job description

Man Group, a global investment management firm headquartered in London, seeks a Product Lead to augment Engineering Management, ensuring delivery initiatives are planned, coordinated and run efficiently to maximise value. You will coordinate across teams, shape delivery goals, manage features and fixes, and communicate with stakeholders to secure buy-in and clear milestones.

The role requires delivery leadership in a regulated financial services context with strong SDLC and platform engineering