Senior Product Manager

Immediate Media Co; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Product Manager, leading the digital product strategy for a beloved food brand. In this dynamic role, you will oversee the entire product development lifecycle, ensuring customer needs are met through innovative solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful products while mentoring junior members. Enjoy a supportive culture that values diversity and inclusion, offering flexible working arrangements and a range of benefits to enhance your work-life balance. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the food industry.

Benefits

Flexible / hybrid working

25 days holiday plus birthday day off

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced Family Policies

Competitive pension plans

Life Assurance

Regular socials including summer festival

Tailored training and development

Modern office with collaborative spaces

Mental Health First aiders

Qualifications

• 5+ years of customer-facing product management experience required.
• Experience with product strategy and delivery is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and roadmap for Good Food Web and App.
• Utilize data to inform product decisions and optimize features.

Skills

Product Management

Customer-Centric Mindset

Data-Driven Decision Making

Stakeholder Engagement

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SQL

Excel

Job description

Senior Product Manager (up to £75,000 depending on experience)

At Immediate, we’re home to some of the biggest and most loved consumer brands in the UK, including Radio Times, Good Food and Gardeners World. Our trusted, quality content reaches millions of people a month across digital, print, video, podcasts, apps and live events.

We’re the destination for people looking to get more from the things they love. We help inspire them; deepening their knowledge, skills and fuelling their passions, to enjoy more of what life has to offer.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Product and Technology team. In this role, you will lead the digital product strategy for Good Food’s Web and App. You will guide all stages of the product development lifecycle — from ideation, definition, testing, launch and re-iteration to bring continuous customer value.

You will partner with Good Food, Commercial and Content as well as Product Design, Delivery, and Development teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet our customers' needs.

As a Senior Product Manager you will:

• Lead Strategy & Roadmap: Develop and drive the strategy for product features and roadmap for Good Food Web and App.
• Product Ownership: Take overall ownership and responsibility for the product backlog, including the creation, prioritization, and management of issues and epics.
• Customer-Centric Development: Deeply understand customer needs, working with Product Design to translate them into effective product developments.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with business stakeholders to understand and align on desired outcomes.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize data and insights to continuously test, optimise, and inform product decisions.
• Prototyping & MVPs: Lead product testing initiatives and develop prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
• Performance Monitoring: Track the success of product features using appropriate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Share learnings and solutions across teams proactively.
• Mentorship: Provide mentoring and management support to junior and mid-level team members as needed.
• Process Improvement: Work with the wider product and development team to enhance our products and processes.

Minimum Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of customer-facing product management experience
• Experience with owning and driving product strategy and delivery
• Customer-centric mindset, focused on understanding user behaviour and translating insights into product recommendations

Desirable:

• Experience working in the food or groceries industry
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in SQL and Excel

Benefits:

• A relaxed working environment with regular socials including a summer festival
• Immediate Community webinars, well-being initiatives and Mental Health First aiders
• 25 days holiday plus a day for your birthday. Our offices will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s which are in addition to your annual entitlement
• Tailored training and development through our Love Learning platform
• A progressive and transparent culture with clear career progression
• Flexible / hybrid working plus early finish Fridays
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced Family Policies including paternity, adoption and surrogacy leave. We also provide a pregnancy loss, fertility, and carers policy
• Competitive pension plans and Life Assurance
• A newly renovated modern office with lots of collaborative spaces

We pride ourselves on our open, collaborative, and dynamic culture. This encourages our people to thrive, and give their best whilst being supported, developed, and nurtured. As we care about our people, our environment, and the impact we make, we have an active Diversity & Inclusion network, comprehensive well-being programmes, and clear sustainability strategies.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the heart of all our values and leadership behaviours to ensure Immediate remains a place where everyone feels included and empowered;

We care

We succeed together

We enjoy the ride

We are bold

We never settle

We get on with it

People are at the heart of our business and creating a diverse and inclusive working environment is extremely important to us. Immediate is an equal opportunities employer. We’ll never treat anyone less favourably because of their sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, marital/civil partnerships, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief or disability. We’re also committed to supporting applications from those who are returning to work following a career break, maternity leave or caring responsibilities.