Product Management Director

TN United Kingdom; Marlow; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

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Would you like to work in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Join our IT Team

Softcat is an amazing success story and as part of our continued growth we are investing significantly more in a new technology strategy going forward. Softcat's internal Technology Team is undergoing an exciting transformation to provide greater opportunities for our people's professional development and prepare ourselves to execute our more ambitious technology strategy.

Success. The Softcat Way.

Softcat is a £1 billion+ technology solutions business and trusted partner to names like Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe. Offering a growing portfolio of services including software licensing, cyber security, and IT infrastructure, we give our technical teams the tools and support to make exciting things happen. This is where to achieve more for your career.

About the role

As the Product Management Director, you will be at the helm of a newly established team, shaping its strategic direction, partnering with wider Softcat and establishing & embedding a product-focused approach within Softcat.

As Product Management Director, you'll be responsible for:

• Product Strategy & Business Alignment: Ensure that our internal technology products deliver measurable value and impact to the business.
• Capability Optimisation & Capabilities: Champion a culture of experimentation and data-driven decision-making.
• Leadership & Team Development: Build and lead a high-performing team of product professionals and maintain a culture of delivery excellence.
• Technology & Delivery Alignment: Ensure scalable, efficient, and future-proof solutions that drive operational excellence.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management: Act as a trusted partner to senior leadership and drive successful change adoption.

We'd love you to have:

• Proven experience in establishing and leading product management functions, ideally within technology or enterprise environments.
• Proven experience to engage stakeholders and gain buy-in for new ways of working within a business and its technology function.
• Strong understanding of business capability modelling, value stream alignment and enterprise architecture.
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, including product managers, business analysts and change professionals.
• Expertise in agile product development, lean principles and user-centred design.

Work in a way that works for you:

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home.
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day.
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs.

Working with us:

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/.

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!