Senior Product Manager

Oxford University Press; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension contributions up to 12%

Loans and savings schemes

Travel to work schemes

Local discounts

Discretionary bonus opportunity

Job summary

Oxford University Press in Oxford is seeking a senior product leader to set long-term strategy for digital assessment products. You will own product performance across the full lifecycle, from discovery and investment decisions through launch, growth, improvement and retirement, using research, market insight and data to guide priorities.

The role requires leading across functions, mentoring colleagues and shaping roadmaps, goals and KPIs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience setting product strategy and managing digital products through the full lifecycle.
• Strong customer and user research skills, turning insight into opportunities.
• Experience with market/competitor analysis and horizon scanning.
• Strong commercial and financial skills: business cases, P&L, forecasting, pricing & ROI.
• Experience setting product goals, KPIs and measurement frameworks.
• Ability to align roadmaps across multiple products and teams.
• Strong discovery, feature definition and customer validation skills.
• Experience overseeing complex delivery, launches and live product performance.
• Strong leadership and influencing skills in a matrix organisation.
• Sound judgement and ownership with evidence-based decisions in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Set the long-term strategy for one or more digital assessment products.
• Own product performance across the full lifecycle from discovery to retirement.
• Use customer research, market insight and product data to identify opportunities and guide decisions.
• Align roadmaps, investment and delivery across product, design, technology, sales, marketing, finance and operations.
• Provide leadership across initiatives, mentor colleagues and improve product management practice.

Skills

Product strategy

User research

Market analysis

Commercial finance

KPIs & measurement

Roadmap alignment

Leadership & mentoring

Decision making in ambiguity

Job description

• Set the long-term strategy for one or more digital assessment products, aligned with customer, commercial and organisational goals.
• Own product performance across the full lifecycle, from opportunity discovery and investment decisions through launch, growth, improvement and retirement.
• Use customer research, market insight and product data to identify opportunities, define priorities and guide decisions.
• Align roadmaps, investment and delivery across product, design, technology, sales, marketing, finance and operations.
• Provide leadership across initiatives, mentor colleagues and help improve product management practice.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.

About You:

• Proven experience setting product strategy and managing digital products through the full lifecycle.
• Strong customer and user research skills, including turning insight into clear product opportunities.
• Experience of market analysis, competitor analysis and horizon scanning.
• Strong commercial and financial skills, including business cases, P&L, forecasting, pricing and ROI.
• Experience setting product goals, KPIs and measurement frameworks.
• Proven ability to align roadmaps and priorities across multiple products, teams or workstreams.
• Strong discovery, feature definition and customer validation skills.
• Experience overseeing complex delivery, launches, end-to-end quality and live product performance.
• Strong leadership, communication and influencing skills in a matrix organisation
• Sound judgement, ownership and the ability to make evidence-based decisions in ambiguity.

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment or management bonus or sales bonus.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

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We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.