Lead Product Manager

Descompagnons Trabalho Temporário Lda; Porto; Híbrido; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A global data insights company is seeking a Lead Product Manager to oversee the evolution of their Video Conferencing Digital Workspace. The role will focus on enhancing collaboration, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring a seamless user experience. Candidates should have expertise in collaboration technologies, especially with Microsoft Teams Rooms. This position offers hybrid working conditions in Porto, Portugal.

Serviços

Five days of Life Leave per year

Birthday leave

Two days for volunteering

Enhanced carer leave

Access to beach storage for surfboards

Qualificações

• Deep understanding of video conferencing and scale collaboration platforms, especially Microsoft Teams Rooms.
• Proven ability to drive transformation, navigate complex structures, and deliver results.
• Demonstrated success in building, managing, and optimizing relationships with technology suppliers.

Responsabilidades

• Drive the evolution of Kantar’s Video Conferencing Digital Workspace.
• Establish and strengthen partnerships with key technology suppliers.
• Develop and implement the roadmap for conferencing software and hardware.

Conhecimentos

Expertise in collaboration technologies

Strategic leadership in dynamic environments

Vendor and partnership management

Data-driven decision making

Inclusive, impactful leadership

Descrição da oferta de emprego

time left to apply End Date: October 31, 2025 (30+ days left to apply)

job requisition id R096273

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Our Functions teams are right at the centre of our business, making sure we can always get better, every day. Supporting the business with things like Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, Legal and Technology, our Functions colleagues are skilled professionals whose role it is to ensure we continue to become an indispensable partner to brands everywhere.

About the job

As Lead Product Manager, you will drive the evolution of Kantar’s Video Conferencing Digital Workspace, ensuring seamless collaboration across global teams. Your work will directly impact how our colleagues connect, innovate, and deliver solutions to clients, positioning Kantar at the forefront of technological transformation.

You’ll be responsible for overseeing AV design, delivery, and operations, shaping user experiences and service quality. As an integral part of the Technology Division, you’ll collaborate closely with service partners, operational leads, and technical teams, ensuring our digital workspace aligns with Kantar’s ambitious vision for automation and product excellence. Your leadership will be vital to delivering impactful, ready solutions for both internal stakeholders and our clients worldwide.

Job Goals

• Establish and strengthen partnerships with key technology suppliers, manufacturers, and service partners, ensuring meeting room designs are current and leading.
• Develop and implement the roadmap for conferencing software, hardware, and infrastructure, with clear communication and alignment to Kantar’s digital, sustainability, and focused strategy.
• Oversee the design and successful delivery of meeting rooms and collaboration technology for a major global real estate move, ensuring seamless implementation and user experience.
• Improve and streamline conferencing technology adoption across regions, simplifying demand, design, and deployment processes for maximum efficiency and user satisfaction.
• Manage the ongoing product lifecycle for collaboration and conferencing solutions—including Microsoft Teams Rooms, digital signage, virtual/hybrid event platforms, and secondary environments—using robust governance frameworks.
• AV Support Ownership & Escalation Management: Own the end support strategy for the AV estate, ensuring reliable operation across all environments. Act as the primary escalation point for complex AV issues, coordinating with internal teams and external vendors to drive swift resolution.
• Enhance and consolidate global data and reporting for conferencing services, enabling better decision making and continuous improvement.
• Champion customer experience by proactively engaging stakeholders, challenging assumptions, and prioritising innovative, driven technology enhancements.

Ideal Skills & Capabilities

• Expertise in collaboration technologies: Deep understanding of video conferencing and scale collaboration platforms, especially Microsoft Teams Rooms and related infrastructure.
• Strategic leadership in dynamic environments: Proven ability to drive transformation, navigate complex structures, and deliver results amid ongoing change.
• Vendor and partnership management: Demonstrated success in building, managing, and optimising relationships with technology suppliers and service providers to create class solutions.
• Data-driven decision making: Track record of using global data and reporting to enhance service quality and inform continuous improvement initiatives.
• Inclusive, impactful leadership: A collaborative approach to leading global teams, championing diversity & inclusion, and inspiring commitment to Kantar’s strategic vision.

What’s in it for you

On top of all your normal benefits like holiday, meal cards and life assurance, we also offer:

• Five days of Life Leave per year; for those days when life just…gets in the way.
• Birthday leave – one extra day of holiday taken on the nearest workday to your birthday
• Two days a year to give back and volunteer with an organisation of your choice.
• Enhanced primary and secondary carer leave for however you choose to grow your family.
• The chance to hit the beach on your lunch break (yes, we have somewhere you can store your surfboard!)

Please be aware, the majority of our roles are hybrid, working three days a week in our office.

We’re not able to offer visa sponsorship or help with relocation support for this role. Please make sure you’ve got the right to work in the country where this role is located before applying.

What part of Kantar might I be joining?

You’ll be joining our technology team, right in the middle of our tech revolution. We’re undergoing the largest technology transformation Kantar has ever seen, investing in new AI and cloud technologies. By modernizing all our tech systems, we can respond our clients\' needs faster and more efficiently – and keep Kantar as a market leader for insights.

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And if we combine the expertise of our people with the latest AI technology, we can really help brands discover some amazing insights.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way works for them. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Privacy and Legal Statement

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.

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Country

Portugal

About Us

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 25000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our depth of human understanding alongside breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world. We’re committed to inclusion and diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society.

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For information about data privacy and processing, please refer to our privacy disclosures in the job posting.

Country Portugal