Product Manager - 6 Month Fixed Term Contract

Together - loans, mortgages & finance; Cheadle; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Together, a leading financial services company in the UK, seeks a Product Manager to lead the transformation of their lending platform. This role involves redesigning products, managing daily operations, and driving performance based on customer insights. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills, operational knowledge, and the ability to communicate effectively across the organization.

Benefits

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Discretionary annual bonus

Life assurance and Critical illness cover

Free gym access

Local discounts

Qualifications

• Ability to push projects over the finish line with sound planning.
• Demonstrated strong communication skills in various scenarios.
• Good operational knowledge of business success indicators.

Responsibilities

• Redesign and rebuild products into a new lending platform.
• Manage product set daily; enact pricing changes and identify opportunities.
• Lead initiatives to drive and measure product performance.

Skills

Project management

Operational knowledge

Analytical skills

Communication

Job description

• Full-time
• Working Hours: Standard (09:00am-17:30pm)
• Department: Commercial Change & Operations
• Office or Field Based: Office Based (Cheadle, SK8 3GW)
• Contract type: Fixed Term

Company Description

Benefits of working at Together

• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday (increasing with service to 30 days), plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts

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Company Description

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 750 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7 billion loan book.

Job Description

As a Product Manager, you will work with the team toredesign and rebuild all of our products into our new lending platform as part our transformation programme. Alongside this, the team are continuing to manage the product set each day, enacting pricing changes and working with colleagues all over the business to identify future opportunities to improve the product set and drive lending performance.

As a Product Manager, we are looking for someone to:

• Ensure that our product set is designed to support customer needs and drive commercial performance, and that the product set acts as designed
• Support effective risk management for products by identifying key risks and putting mitigants in place; ensuringgood conduct is embedded in product design and performance
• Complete periodic review and renovation of products, and lead innovation activity to meet emerging customer needs
• Look for opportunities to continuously drive performance and improve products by gathering qualitative and quantitative insight into product performance
• Lead initiatives to drive and measure commercial finance product performance, and the setting and monitoring of performance KPIs and customer outcomes

Qualifications

• Can demonstrate the ability to push projects over the finish line with sound planning and persistent execution
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Good operational knowledge i.e. knows how a business works, success indicators, where to look for/anticipate trouble
• Strong communication-internally and externally, one-to one and in groups/presentations

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Additional Information

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Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.