Product Manager (Hybrid) – Social Housing

NEC Corporation; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Cover

25 days paid holiday

Life assurance 4x basic

Group Pension Plan (8.5%)

Flexible benefits

Job summary

NEC Housing Product Manager role at NEC Software Solutions in the UK focuses on shaping and delivering housing solutions, including Rents, Service Charges, Allocations, and a Housing Mobile App. You will work with customers and internal teams to capture requirements and drive a product roadmap.

You will collaborate on UI/UX, write user stories, and support pre-sales, with a strong emphasis on market research and regulatory trends in the social housing sector. Travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Experience in UK Social Housing, either as a customer or software solution provider.
• Strong knowledge of project life cycle, methodologies, and delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Experience defining product enhancements, UI/UX design, and Agile new product development.
• Experience with housing management systems or related software.
• Experience working with Housing system modules Rents, Service Charges, Allocations, or Mobile alternatives.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Full, valid UK/EC driving licence for travel.
• Proven ability to build relationships and understand client perspectives.
• Effective time management and resource allocation.
• Experience in end-to-end product life cycle management.
• Experience designing digital solutions for the social housing sector, including mobile apps and web platforms.
• Proficiency in tools such as Figma and JIRA.
• Working knowledge of NEC Housing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct market research to understand legislative, regulatory, competitive, and economic trends.
• Become the subject matter expert in your product area, providing guidance to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with customers through co-design workshops, user groups, and meetings to capture insights and shape requirements.
• Define customer business needs and objectives to ensure NEC Housing products meet or exceed expectations.
• Create requirements, user stories, and wireframes for new developments, working closely with development and QA teams to deliver solutions that achieve customer outcomes.
• Partner with Technical Authors to produce and review product documentation.
• Build business cases including market uptake, pricing, and margin analysis.
• Identify and manage any third-party requirements, liaising with suppliers and integrators as needed.
• Define and maintain the roadmap for your product area(s).
• Support Pre-Sales and Sales teams with bid responses, proposals, and quotations.
• Deliver presentations to internal and external audiences.
• Contribute to product launch activities.

Skills

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Time management

Relationship building

Agile product development

End-to-end product life cycle

UI/UX design

Figma

JIRA

NEC Housing knowledge

Housing domain knowledge

UK Social Housing experience

Education

Tools

Figma

JIRA

Job description

NEC Housing Product Manager role at NEC Software Solutions in the UK focuses on shaping and delivering housing solutions, including Rents, Service Charges, Allocations, and a Housing Mobile App. You will work with customers and internal teams to capture requirements and drive a product roadmap.

You will collaborate on UI/UX, write user stories, and support pre-sales, with a strong emphasis on market research and regulatory trends in the social housing sector. Travel may be required.