Senior Product Manager (HR, Finance, Estates)

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The opportunity

Senior Product Managers lead an exciting new discipline within Digital & Technology at UAL, supporting the next step in our journey towards product management and user-centric design. Over the last two years we have been scaling our capabilities, shifting focus from a technology and project-centric approach to the design of intuitive, positive user experiences, and optimised digital services that can scale to support the ambitious growth outlined in our strategy.

Reporting to a Head of Product, the Senior Product Manager will work as part of a management team alongside Delivery, Business Analysis, TechOps and Development colleagues, and collaborate with business service teams and supplier-partners. They will be a trusted ally to business service leads, and support Heads of Product and D&T Directors in delivery of each area’s digital service vision. 

The Senior Product Manager will drive the ongoing enhancement and maturing of a broad portfolio of products and services, and maintain deep and wide awareness of the changing trends in HE and among the sector’s primary suppliers. You will take a leading role in growing the community of product management at UAL, in embedding excellent product management practices and ensuring close control of product standards. T he SPM will have shared responsibility for defining outcomes, maintaining effective prioritisation of resources to ensure sustainable improvement, measured against the strategic objectives set by the service area leads.

We welcome applications from experienced product managers with related backgrounds from any sector who want to lead this changing practice in an organisation that is committed to social purpose and is growing to face new opportunities and challenges.

About you

• A background of developing digital products for varied audiences and defining roadmaps
• Knowledge of effective product lifecycle management across a large, complex environment
• Experience of supporting complex procurements, and embedding/integrating supplier products within existing ecosystems.
• Extensive experience of working with a diverse range of stakeholders and external partners to deliver and develop digital products and services.
• Experience of building multi-disciplinary product teams and transforming traditional ‘project’ delivery ways of working into high-performing product-led development teams.
• Experience of Agile and Scrum, as well as other software and product development and delivery methodologies, for both transformational change and ongoing development taking a user-centric approach
• Broad awareness of enterprise technology
• Demonstrable experience of driving and championing new ways of working, bringing people along with you
• Desirable experience in acceptance definition, test management, and transition of changes into service

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We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

Our culture

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to be members of the Race Equality Charter (REC) and Business Disability Forum, are a Disability Confident Scheme Committed and Living Wage employer and maintain our status as a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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