Senior Product Manager (Fixed Term)

University of Cambridge; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

41 days annual leave

Attractive pension contributions

Shopping and travel discounts

Flexible working arrangements

Flexible working

Job summary

A leading higher education institution in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Product Manager to oversee the Unified Data, Integration, and Reporting Service. This role involves strategic and operational management of data services within the University, focusing on continuous delivery and service adoption. The candidate will lead multidisciplinary teams, define service goals, and maintain the service model. A competitive salary, hybrid working options, and comprehensive benefits are offered for this full-time position.

Qualifications

• A collaborative approach with a drive to deliver.
• Proven experience in enterprise-level product management.
• Experience working with engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Define needs and opportunities for data use across the University.
• Manage service components and service adoption.
• Create service goals and a roadmap.
• Oversee the life cycle of service offerings.
• Maintain service model and user documentation.

Skills

Excellent stakeholder management

Strong communication skills

Product management experience

Experience with DevOps practices

Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams

Job description

University of Cambridge provided pay range

This range is provided by University of Cambridge. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

The role

The Senior Product Manager for the University’s new Unified Data, Integration and Reporting Service will be responsible for bringing strategic and operational clarity and focus to the myriad of exciting things we could be working on.

Work with the service owner, multidisciplinary service team and data domain leads, you’ll manage the continuous delivery of the three service components: our enterprise data platform, our bring your own data platform, and our integration platform.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a great bunch of people to really transform the way the University operates and makes use of data. That’s where we need your help to think both strategically and operationally about how we shape and deliver change and adoption of this new service.

What you will do

• Make sense of our needs and opportunities and elicit and collaboratively set out how we can (radically) change how we make use of data across the University.
• Manage the three service components and service adoption: enterprise data, bring your own data, and integrations.
• Create service goals, KPIs and an accompanying realistic credible roadmap.
• Manage the life cycle of service offerings, from initial design and planning, domain onboarding, through to production rollout and ongoing optimisation.
• Own and maintain the service model, roadmap and prioritised backlog.
• Ensure that user support and documentation is clear and accessible.

The service has been funded for an initial 2 year period. Consequently, this position is a 2-year, full-time role, usually based on the University’s West Cambridge Site.

What you will need

• A supportive and collaborative approach to work mixed with a drive and ambition to deliver.
• Excellent stakeholder, communication, written and presentation skills.
• Experience of product management of enterprise level products and services.
• Experience working with engineering teams using DevOps practices.
• Proven experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams.

What we can offer

• A competitive salary with service-related progression and annual cost-of-living increases.
• An annual leave allowance of 41 days per year (including bank holidays).
• A generous pension with attractive employer contributions.
• Access to a range of shopping and travel discounts through the Cambens scheme.
• Hybrid working. We support flexible and family-friendly working and are open to non-standard working patterns. We welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for part-time working or other flexible working arrangements.

Please quote reference VC48186 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Product Management

Industries

Higher Education