Product Manager

Barclays UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is looking for a ServiceNow Product Manager to oversee product development and collaborate with product owners and technical teams. With 3-5 years of experience in a similar role, the ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of GRC, manage product roadmaps, and optimize product performance. This exciting position offers the opportunity to drive success in a dynamic environment while adhering to the bank’s highest standards.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years as a Product Owner or Manager in SaaS or Enterprise.
• Experience in a regulated firm is essential.
• Ability to manage product roadmaps and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product owners and technical teams.
• Develop and implement product strategies based on the roadmap.
• Monitor product performance and optimize as necessary.

Skills

Product Owner or Manager experience

GRC/Risk and Control experience

Product team management

Case Management experience

Release Management expertise

Scrum Master/Agile trained

Job description

Join us at Barclays as a ServiceNow Product Manager, where you'll collaborate with product owners and technical teams to deliver the product roadmap using your knowledge of the bank’s technologies. You'll also oversee the day‑to‑day running of the team and bring proven product ownership experience to drive success.

To be successful as a ServiceNow Product Manager, you should have experience with:

• Experienced Product Owner or Manager for a SaaS or Enterprise Platform with 3‑5 years’ experience operating at this level. Full accountability for budgeting, forecasting and operating and change costs.
• Experience in a GRC/Risk and Control or Chief Security organisation and strong experience of working in a regulated firm.
• Ability to manage key aspects of a Product team – roadmap creation, demand management, stakeholder management.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Case Management experience of ServiceNow modules or similar SaaS platform.
• Strong Release Management expertise, ideally using modern pipeline tooling and frameworks.
• Scrum Master/Agile trained and operationally experienced.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is based in Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.

Accountabilities

• Provision of subject matter expertise to support the collaboration between the product owner and the technical side of product development.
• Support the development and implementation of the product strategy and vision defined in the product roadmap and communicate them with the relevant stakeholders and the development team.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to gather and prioritise product requirements and features based on business value and feasibility that are well defined, measurable and secure.
• Development and implementation of assessments to ensure continuous testing and improvement of product quality and performance.
• Monitoring of product performance to identify opportunities for optimisation that meets the bank's performance standards.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improve product development and delivery.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long‑term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.