Senior Product Manager

Contract: 12 months fixed-term contract, full-time 
Location: London (hybrid-working)

About the role

This is a pivotal role within the product department at Trinity; an exciting opportunity to design, develop and implement innovative new digital products as part of an enterprise-wide digital transformation programme for our English Language, Arts and Innovation verticals. You will work as part of multi-disciplinary teams to build products which address real customer needs and you will help to drive Trinity’s ambitious product roadmap by bringing your strategic product vision, perspective, and execution skills to bear on a range of programmes. You will take lead on project resourcing, ensuring that future capacity requirements for the Product Team are best matched to the skills and capabilities of the team. You will also help to mentor/coach less experienced team members to drive the implementation of best-practice product management methodologies throughout the team.

• Designing new or enhanced digital products and features for our portfolio, product ownership and definition through implementation, measuring success and transitioning to BAU.

• Leading cross-functional teams from across the organisation to help the organisation adopt digital-transformation related change.

• Carrying out discovery tasks which will include, data analysis, qualitative and quantitative user research.

• Managing and communicating with stakeholders from our central and international markets.

• Analysis and modelling of new and existing E2E product commercials and overheads, and crafting of key documents such as product spec and business case.

• Informing the MVP and product roadmap with customer and market feedback.

• Research and analysis of the competitive landscape and longer term market direction.

• Analyse the product roadmap to assess the Product function resource demands, availability and constraints to develop effective resources allocation plans.

• Collaborate with Associate Product Directors to understand their expectations and requirements.

• Develop and implement resource planning strategies to align resource allocation with project demands, organisational goals, and the skills/experience in the team.

• Optimise resource utilisation by identifying and resolving conflicts, bottlenecks or imbalances in resource allocation.

About you

• Educated to degree level or equivalent and evidence of relevant continued professional development in product management, strategy, and marketing / or analytics.

• An accomplished Product Manager, ideally with a deep understanding of the education technology sector and international product management.

• Prior experience in fast-paced technology organisations and ideally have taken at least one exceptional digital product from inception through to market launch.

• You will have experience of working with teams to adopt new practices as a result of digital transformation.

• Experience of using business analytics to understand how products impact the overall business.

• Experience of project resource planning, allocation and optimisation principles and methodologies

• Coaching and mentoring experience

Our benefits

Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation.

As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits including generous annual leave, private health insurance, pension scheme, regular social events, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan, free access to Trinity examinations and continuous training and development, plus more. 

Our commitment

Trinity College London is an equal opportunities employer and our talented people come from all walks of life. Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we actively welcome applications from people with disabilities and will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse. We encourage all applicants to let us know if you need a little extra help with your application, want an alternative way to put in an application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence. 

How to Apply

To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. 

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