Senior Head of Product - FH&B (12 Mo FTC)

M&S; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK retailer is seeking a Senior Head of Product Management in Greater London. This influential role involves creating and executing product strategies for Fashion, Home, and Beauty, leading 15-20 product teams, and ensuring alignment with commercial objectives. Strong product management experience, leadership skills, and data-driven decision-making are essential. The position offers numerous benefits, including discounts, bonuses, and comprehensive wellbeing support. Join us in shaping a product-led culture that drives customer engagement and innovation.

Benefits

20% colleague discount

Competitive holiday entitlement

Discretionary bonus schemes

Defined Contribution Pension Scheme

Wellbeing support access

Charity volunteer day

Qualifications

• Delivering end-to-end strategies and launches across complex portfolios.
• Ability to translate consumer needs into successful product strategies.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and define strategic vision for Fashion, Home & Beauty products.
• Drive customer-led innovation using market insights and trends.
• Ensure product lifecycle excellence from prioritization to optimization.
• Inspire and lead high-performing product teams focused on innovation.

Skills

Extensive product management experience

Strong commercial and brand insight

Proven leadership and influencing skills

Data-driven decision-making

Exceptional people and leadership skills

Job description

Job Description

Summary

As Senior Head of Product Management, you will create vision, set direction, and lead delivery of an entire digital product portfolio, typically overseeing over 15-20 product teams. You will create, refine and deliver product strategies and roadmaps, establish budgets, and implement product management disciplines to create innovative, digital products that customers love and drive commercial value at scale.

This is a highly customer focused and highly visible role influencing and directly leading multiple digital teams. You will manage several senior stakeholders across the business to drive alignment on objectives and key results, as well as partner with cross‑functional teams to create, refine and execute the product strategy in the context of company objectives.

You will play a key role in shaping the Product Management discipline to help bring about an innovative, product‑led culture that allows M&S digital products to be built at scale with high agility.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever‑evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third‑party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve your personal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to our teams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry‑leading parental, adoption and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7 Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or case you’re passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

• Lead and define the strategic vision for a portfolio of Fashion, Home & Beauty products, translating commercial and brand strategy into clear product roadmaps and OKRs that drive customer engagement and business impact.
• Drive customer‑led innovation, leveraging market insight, trends, competitor analysis, and data to deliver compelling, differentiated solutions that enhance brand loyalty and commercial performance.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology, aligning priorities, facilitating decision‑making, and ensuring clear communication of product vision and roadmap.
• Ensure end‑to‑end product lifecycle excellence, including prioritisation, business case development, launch readiness, adoption, and ongoing optimisation with clearly defined success metrics.
• Build, inspire, and lead high‑performing product teams, embedding agile ways of working, mentoring Product Managers, and fostering a product‑led culture focused on innovation, customer experience, and brand.

Who you are

• Extensive product management experience delivering end‑to‑end strategies and launches across complex, customer‑facing portfolios, preferably in Fashion, Home or Beauty.
• Strong commercial and brand insight, with the ability to translate consumer needs, market trends, and competitive dynamics into successful product strategies.
• Proven leadership and influencing skills, with experience leading cross‑functional teams and working effectively with senior stakeholders to drive alignment and execution.
• Data‑driven decision‑making and problem‑solving expertise, with ability to define and track success metrics, optimise products, and improve engagement and performance outcomes.
• Exceptional people and leadership skills, including mentoring, team development, and fostering an agile, product‑led culture that encourages innovation and collaboration.

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

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.

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