Contract: Until 31 December 2026, with potential to extend
Working pattern: Three days per week
Daily rate: €400 per day
About the Role
A leading global payments and financial-technology organisation is seeking an experienced Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap and delivery of reporting and analytics products supporting its core payment network.
These products provide operational, transactional and business insights used to monitor network performance, support decision-making, improve customer outcomes and enable future growth.
This is an excellent opportunity to work with large volumes of transaction data and develop products operating across a major global payment network. The successful candidate will collaborate with product, engineering, data and operations teams to deliver scalable reporting and analytics solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and deliver the product roadmap for reporting, analytics and operational-insight solutions.
- Work closely with engineering, data, operations and product teams throughout the product-development lifecycle.
- Gather, document and prioritise business and product requirements.
- Translate complex business needs into clear, scalable product requirements.
- Define functional and non-functional requirements covering performance, scalability, availability, resilience and data quality.
- Use data and analytics to identify opportunities, determine priorities and measure product performance.
- Develop business cases and product strategies aligned with wider network-modernisation objectives.
- Own and prioritise the product backlog, balancing strategic initiatives, operational requirements and technical dependencies.
- Identify and manage dependencies across multiple products, platforms and teams.
- Support the development of self-service analytics, operational dashboards, data visualisation and automated reporting.
- Coordinate feature validation, product acceptance and the successful deployment of new capabilities.
- Produce clear business requirements, product documentation and operational-readiness materials.
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and align multiple teams around shared outcomes.
- At least six years of relevant experience across product management, product development, business analysis, payments or data analytics.
- Strong product management or product-development experience.
- Significant experience within card payments or the broader payments industry.
- Experience developing reporting, analytics, business-intelligence, dashboard or data-driven products.
- Proven ability to manage complex product roadmaps and work effectively with engineering teams throughout the SDLC.
- Strong requirements-gathering, documentation and backlog-prioritisation skills.
- Ability to collaborate with multiple teams, connect dependencies and align stakeholders around common objectives.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-led approach to decision-making.
- Experience translating business requirements into scalable technical or product solutions.
- Excellent stakeholder-management and influencing skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-motivated, delivery-focused and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
Payments Experience
Candidates should have strong knowledge of the payments industry. Experience in one or more of the following areas would be particularly relevant:
- Transaction switching
- Authorisation
- Clearing and settlement
- Payment-network operations
- Transaction reporting and analytics
- Large-scale financial-technology platforms
- Experience delivering reporting or analytics products within card payments.
- Strong data-analysis and insight-generation capabilities.
- Familiarity with modern analytics platforms and business-intelligence tools.
- Experience with operational dashboards, self-service analytics or automated reporting.
- Understanding of APIs, cloud technologies and modern data ecosystems.
- Experience working with large-scale transaction-processing platforms.
- Bachelor’s degree in computing, technology or a related discipline.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
This role offers the opportunity to:
- Join a globally recognised payments and financial-technology organisation.
- Develop reporting and analytics products operating at significant global scale.
- Influence how payment-network performance is measured, managed and optimised.
- Work with high-volume payment and transaction data.
- Collaborate with international product, engineering, data and operations teams.
- Gain valuable experience within a complex, enterprise-level payments environment.