Product Manager

CFA Institute; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 15% on target

Pension match up to 5%

Additional 5% employer pension

Critical illness cover

Income protection

Death in service 4x salary

23/27 days holiday with buy option up

Private medical insurance

Dental insurance

Job summary

The Openwork Partnership is seeking a Product Manager to shape the Omnis proposition, driving strategy, development and lifecycle management in collaboration with the Head of Product. You will lead key initiatives, ensuring adviser and customer needs are met while enabling business growth and strong customer outcomes.

This hybrid role is based 3 days a week from our London office. You will engage with stakeholders across the organisation to deliver compliant, market-leading products and services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management within investments, wealth management or broader financial services.
• Fund regulatory experience.
• Strong understanding of investment products, propositions and adviser-led distribution models.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and delivering strategic and regulatory change initiatives.
• Sound knowledge of product governance, Consumer Duty and the UK regulatory landscape.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build relationships across all levels of the business.
• Commercially minded with excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support product strategy and proposition development using adviser, market and competitor insights.
• Lead product initiatives from concept to implementation, defining requirements and coordinating stakeholders.
• Manage the development and enhancement of products, including delivery of regulatory change.
• Ensure ongoing compliance with FCA PROD requirements and Consumer Duty, supporting governance.
• Conduct product reviews and value assessments, monitoring performance, outcomes and adviser feedback.
• Build strong relationships across the business, coordinating activity and driving collaboration.
• Monitor market, regulatory and competitor developments while championing customer-focused improvements and innovation.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

IMC/CISI/CFA advantageous

Job description

As Product Manager, you will play a key role in shaping and enhancing the Omnis proposition, working closely with the Head of Product to drive product strategy, development and lifecycle management. You'll lead the delivery of key product initiatives and proposition enhancements, ensuring our offering continues to meet the evolving needs of advisers and customers while supporting business growth and delivering excellent customer outcomes.

This is a hybrid role, based 3 days a week from our London office.

THE BENEFITS

1. Salary - £85,000 to £99,000
2. Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 15%
3. Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
4. Critical illness coverIncome protection
5. Death in service - 4x salary
6. 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
7. A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

1. Support product strategy and proposition development, using adviser, market and competitor insights to identify opportunities for growth.
2. Lead product initiatives from concept to implementation, defining requirements and coordinating stakeholders to deliver business and regulatory outcomes.
3. Manage the development and enhancement of products, including the delivery of regulatory change.
4. Ensure ongoing compliance with FCA PROD requirements and Consumer Duty, supporting robust product governance.
5. Conduct product reviews and value assessments, monitoring performance, customer outcomes and adviser feedback.
6. Build strong relationships across the business, coordinating activity and driving collaboration between key stakeholders.
7. Monitor market, regulatory and competitor developments while championing customer-focused improvements and innovation.

What will you need to succeed?

1. Proven experience in product management within investments, wealth management or broader financial services.
2. Fund regulatory experience
3. Strong understanding of investment products, propositions and adviser-led distribution models.
4. Experience leading cross-functional projects and delivering strategic and regulatory change initiatives.
5. Sound knowledge of product governance, Consumer Duty and the UK regulatory landscape.
6. Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build relationships across all levels of the business.
7. Commercially minded with excellent analytical, communication and problem-solving capabilities.
8. Relevant degree or equivalent experience, with industry qualifications such as IMC, CISI or CFA considered advantageous.

Why us?

At The Openwork Partnership, we're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential. We're also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague's individual differences and identities - just like our financial advice, for us, it's personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.