Product Manager

MOTT MACDONALD; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering consultancy is looking for a Product Manager to join their Central Digital team. The role involves developing product strategies and collaborating on digital solutions to improve infrastructure. Candidates should have over three years of experience, strong analytical skills, and be comfortable working in an agile environment. The position supports a hybrid working culture and offers a range of benefits including private medical insurance and generous holiday.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

33-35 days holiday

Annual bonus schemes

Qualifications

• Three+ years of experience as a product manager in cloud computing or equivalent customer-facing role.
• Strong presentation skills with comfort speaking to executives and technical teams.
• Excellent analytical, planning, organisational and technical skills.

Responsibilities

• Produce product strategies and roadmaps for portfolio solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and capture user stories.
• Manage delivery processes for product solutions.

Skills

Product management

Agile methodologies

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Education

University degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

Overview

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across global industries, delivering exciting work that defines our future and makes a societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. We offer opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, with a culture that values empowerment, inclusion, and excellence. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

Location: London or Birmingham, UK

Recruiter contact: Nikki George

About the business unit

Mott MacDonald’s support services are the driving force behind our organisation, enabling us to run efficiently and effectively. The Central Digital team supports business units across the UK, Europe and Middle East to leverage digital to win more work and deliver projects more efficiently.

Overview of the role

Join a team shaping the future of infrastructure through cutting-edge digital solutions. As a Product Manager within the Central Digital team, you will be a key member of our product teams, developing products and product extensions that solve infrastructure industry challenges for clients across the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. You will work with colleagues across Mott MacDonald to translate knowledge, processes and methods into digital solutions that add value for clients and deliver return on investment to the business.

You will help ensure our solutions meet business and client requirements and are developed and managed according to product management best practices. You will lead the development of product strategies and roadmaps and leverage best-practice approaches and tools as part of our Product Lifecycle Management Framework.

You will gather user, functional and non-functional requirements to inform the product roadmap and interface with project teams to scale deployment and improve user adoption and satisfaction.

Responsibilities

• Produce product strategies and roadmaps for portfolio solutions to meet business needs.
• Monitor product health indicators to grow user numbers and enhance user experience.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and capture user stories for prioritisation in development sprints.
• Adhere to and contribute to the Product Lifecycle Management framework for the portfolio.
• Ensure ongoing quality and continuous improvement within product visions, strategies and roadmaps aligned to organisational goals.
• Support colleagues in communicating the value proposition of each solution and the combined suite.
• Manage delivery processes as solutions are deployed to multiple projects and evolve these processes as solutions mature and scale to hundreds of live deployments.

Additional responsibilities

• Translate business and user needs into product strategies and roadmaps.
• Incorporate data, research and market analysis to inform product decisions.
• Advocate use of product discovery techniques (rapid prototypes, wireframes, mock-ups, A/B tests).
• Define success metrics and ensure feedback from customers and users is acted upon.
• Work with the Product Lead to agree timelines, deadlines and release plans for new features.
• Support initiatives to increase product awareness, adoption and usage (e.g., case studies, guides, content).
• Share product management best practices across the team.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Three+ years of experience as a product manager in cloud computing or equivalent customer-facing role.
• Experience with agile methodologies, e.g., managing a scrum team and owning the product/sprint backlog.
• Strong presentation skills with comfort speaking to executives, domain experts and software engineers.
• Excellent analytical, planning, organisational and technical skills.
• University degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant discipline.
• Strong communication skills to explain the rationale behind product strategies and development decisions.
• Experience developing product strategies and roadmaps.

Desirable:

• Product management certification or equivalent.
• Experience introducing software-as-a-service solutions to the engineering, construction and infrastructure industry.
• Experience working with offshore software development or engineering teams.
• Knowledge of user research / user experience methodologies and translating those into features.
• Knowledge of technology solutions and ability to learn emerging technologies in Cloud/IT.
• Knowledge of the infrastructure / construction industry (water, energy, transport, buildings, defence and security).

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. is not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision reflects changes to the Skilled Worker route in April 2024. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

Agile working

We support a hybrid working policy that enables you and your manager to work in a way that meets client, team and personal commitments.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, promoting fair employment procedures and equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression and aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Accessibility

If you need support to apply or attend an interview, please contact [e-mail] to discuss accommodations.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits, including:

• Health and wellbeing
  • Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
  • Health cash plan to support everyday health costs
  • Peppy access for menopause support
  • Wellbeing program access for you and your family
  • Salary flex benefits for health options
• Financial wellbeing
  • Matching pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%
  • Life assurance up to 4x basic salary (option to 6x)
  • Income protection and related support
  • Flexible benefits including additional life cover and will writing
  • Profit sharing via annual bonus schemes
• Lifestyle
  • 33-35 days holiday (with potential buy/sell) and 35 days after 5 years
  • Employee savings schemes and retailer discounts
• Enhanced family and carers leave
  • 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption leave and 2 weeks paid paternity/partner leave
  • Shared parental leave up to 24 weeks at full pay
  • Additional leave for caring responsibilities
• Learning and development
  • Annual professional institution subscription
  • Mentoring, formal training and self-development options
• Networks and social outcomes
  • Advanced Employee Networks and opportunities to contribute to communities

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, please refer to our application process page.