Senior Product Manager

Bupa; Kemp Town Estate; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global health insurer is seeking a strategic product leader to shape and drive their international product portfolio across key regions. This role involves defining local product strategies, managing a team of Product Managers, and ensuring compliance with regulations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in managing complex product portfolios and strong leadership skills. Bupa offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, an enhanced pension plan, and a supportive work environment that encourages diversity.

Benefits

25 days holiday with option to buy or sell

Bupa health insurance

Enhanced pension plan

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Various online discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing complex product portfolios in regulated markets.
• Proven track record of driving commercial success.
• Ability to inspire and develop global talent.
• Strong numerical skills to translate data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement local product strategies across four key regions.
• Act as the champion for local product portfolios.
• Prioritize and oversee development of new or enhanced products.
• Collaborate to create compelling local product propositions.
• Manage a high-performing team of Product Managers.
• Monitor and analyze local product performance.
• Drive requirements for systems re-platforming.
• Ensure products remain compliant with regulations.

Skills

Strategic leadership capability

Strong people leadership skills

Exceptional stakeholder engagement

Outstanding communication

Highly analytical

Relevant sector experience

Sound understanding of IPMI products

Job description

In this critical leadership role, you'll be accountable for shaping and driving our global IPMI product portfolio across four key regions. You'll ensure our products continue to meet the evolving needs of target customers, deliver exceptional experiences, and achieve strong commercial performance. Leading a team of Product Managers, you will define and implement local product proposition strategies that align to a coordinated global vision – enabling growth, innovation, and competitive differentiation. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on a global scale – shaping the future of our product portfolio and leading a talented team to deliver exceptional outcomes for customers and the business. If you're a strategic product leader with a passion for innovation and making a real difference to people's lives across the world, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Shape Strategy: Define and implement local product strategies across our four key regions, ensuring alignment with global strategy, objectives, and long‑term business goals
• Drive Performance: Act as the champion for local product portfolios, partnering with key stakeholders to deliver improved commercial outcomes and enhanced customer metrics
• Innovate and Evolve: Prioritise and oversee the development of new or enhanced products to meet identified customer or market needs, delivering measurable growth
• Customer‑Centric Design: Collaborate with a range of teams across the business to create compelling local product propositions that showcase our strengths and differentiate us in the market
• Lead and Inspire: Manage and develop a high‑performing team of Product Managers; setting clear priorities and fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Portfolio Management: Monitor and analyse local product performance, identifying opportunities for optimisation, rationalisation, and simplification to improve competitiveness and profitability; then work collaboratively to deliver required changes
• Systems Transformation: Act as the product lead on a major systems re‑platforming programme, driving requirements that unlock portfolio improvements and enable future customer‑centric product innovation
• Regulatory Compliance: Stay ahead of emerging regulations across regions, ensuring products remain compliant and fit for purpose
• Strategic Influence: Build strong, collaborative stakeholder relationships across the business, influencing decisions and gaining buy‑in for initiatives that deliver sustainable growth

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing complex product portfolios, ideally across multiple regulated and global markets, with a proven track record of driving commercial success
• Strategic leadership capability – able to set direction, develop product strategies, and lead cross‑functional teams to deliver impactful initiatives
• Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to inspire, coach, and develop global talent while effectively prioritising and managing team objectives
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, with the confidence and credibility to influence at all levels, challenge constructively, and build lasting relationships across the business
• Outstanding communication and storytelling ability, using clear, compelling narratives to gain buy‑in and support for strategic initiatives
• Highly analytical and commercially astute, with strong numerical skills and the ability to translate data into actionable insights
• Relevant sector experience, ideally within healthcare, insurance, or financial services
• Sound understanding of IPMI products and markets, with awareness of industry trends, customer needs, and regulatory considerations

Bupa Global is the international health insurance division of Bupa. We provide customers who want premium international coverage with products and services to access the healthcare they need anytime, around the world, whether at home or when studying, living, travelling or working abroad.

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That is why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family‑friendly benefits. Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• an enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• various other benefits and online discounts