
Product Manager
- Birmingham
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Love eating out? You'll love it even more with a massive 33% discount across all our brands, so whether its date night at Miller & Carter or family roast at Toby Carvery we’ve got you covered.
- Company Car or Car Allowance
- Flexible working – to fit around the other important things in life
- Own the vision and strategy for one specified Digital value stream
- Lead the definition of a feature roadmap that facilitates the achievement of the specified value stream goals
- Own a development and dependency plan to deliver the roadmap in collaboration with key partners (e.g., technology, marketing, data, legal, and product).
- Own the success of the roadmap and measurement of key KPIs e.g. sales and profit, conversion, engagement, spend. Identify trends in the market which can feed into the value stream and uplift commercial success
- Lead in the engagement of relevant third party integration and SaaS providers, including relationship building, documentation and solution exchange, contracts / legals, planning and delivery.
- Become a SME and build a strong working relationship with business, operational and sales leads for food delivery and third party booking integrations, as well as new integrations identified.
- Play a leading role in identifying new partners, and supporting in intro sessions as well and discovery of partner capabilities.
- Lead stakeholder sessions and create business discovery documents that outline the goals, KPIs, epics to achieve each feature. Engage with the UX agency to formulate guest journeys and wireframes that visualize the feature.
- Work with business change to validate hypothesis with brands, identify pain points, and take a pro-active role in setting up and executing a successful pilot.
- Work with the reporting analyst and associated data reporting teams to ensure data, reports and dashboards are available for feature success tracking.
- Management of sprint team in place to deliver on the development plans.
- Participating in regular scrum ceremonies (acting as the business driver behind initiatives and ensuring delivery milestones are agreed and on track)
- Supporting with blockers, risks and issues
- Tracking progress of sprint team against milestone plans
- Working closely with senior product managers to collaborate on digital strategy, vision and digital team organisation
- Supporting senior product managers with internal and external legal teams, sourcing information for contract discussions, work order definitions, and ensuring compliance with regulations such as GDPR.
- Working with Brand and Central marketing teams to optimise M&B’s customer lifecycle marketing strategy (targeting increases in conversion, engagement, retention, LTV, and improvements in SEO and UI design) across existing and new channels.
- Experience working with multiple third party solution providers, integrations partners, and leading integration projects as well as improvements
- Ability to define functional design and ask relevant questions of technical resource
- An appreciation of technical design including APIs, endpoints, schemas, and solution design
- An ability to work closely with technical architects and developers, focused mainly on bringing backend integrations together
- Track record of having managed digital transformation within a retail / e-commerce environment (multi-brand experience preferred) and experience of working within a cross-functional / collaborative environment
- Experience of working as a product owner / product manager (an understanding of agile development principles and methodologies). Deep experience in writing detailed epics and stories, including more backend focused stories.
- Experience leading and developing a cross functional team
- Strong stakeholder management & presentation skills
- Highly analytical, detail focused - with experience of test and learn methodologies..
- Some understanding of GDPR and data management
- Understanding of core UX/UI principles and good customer journey design
- An appreciation of advancing technologies such as Data Lake, ChatGPT/CoPilot, and Campaign Management / Recommendation Engine Tooling
- Some knowledge of AI & Machine Learning Principals and how these can be used within an ecommerce environment i.e., in journey messaging capabilities, Personalisation, and Next Best Actions
- Tooling experience with Office 365 suite, AHA, JIRA, Azure Dev Ops, Dynatrace, GA4 and Figma
- A relevant digital, management or technical degree
- Product Manager accreditation (preferred)