Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Embark on an exciting journey as a Product Manager for NEC Housing, where you will play a crucial role in developing and delivering innovative products for the Social Housing community.

• Conduct market research to gain insights into legislative, regulatory, competitive, and economic landscapes, as well as evolving market drivers.

• Become the authority in your product area, capable of addressing queries from customers and internal stakeholders.

• Engage with customers through co-design workshops, User Group sessions, and meetings to gain a comprehensive understanding of the sector and how it shapes customer requirements.

• Define business needs and objectives of customers, aligning them with product strategy to ensure NEC Housing products and solutions meet or surpass customer and market expectations.

• Develop business cases to outline market uptake, pricing strategies, and margin analysis.

• Identify any third-party requirements necessary to fulfill user needs.

• Collaborate and manage requirements with third-party suppliers, systems integrators, or other organizations as needed.

• Define, manage, and maintain the roadmap for your designated product area(s).

• Assist the Pre-Sales/Sales team in crafting, reviewing, and managing bid responses, sales proposals, and quotations as required.

• Create and deliver presentations for both customer and internal audiences.

• Support activities related to product launches.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in UK Social Housing, whether as a customer or a software solution provider.

• Background in repairs within the social housing sector.

• Strong understanding of project life-cycle, methodologies, and successfully delivering projects on time and within budget.

• Experience in gathering requirements, defining product enhancements, UI/UX design, and Agile new product development.

• Familiarity with housing management systems or related software.

• Exceptional presentation and communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and comprehend client perspectives.

• Effective time management and resource allocation skills.

• Strong decision-making capabilities.

• Full, valid UK/EC driving license for travel purposes.

• Experience in managing the end-to-end product life cycle.

• Background in designing digital solutions for the social housing sector, including mobile applications and web platforms.

• Proficiency in tools such as Figma and JIRA.

🏝️ Benefits

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)

• 25 days of paid holiday with the option to buy/sell (FTE)

• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)

• A Group Pension Plan with excellent employer contributions of up to 8.5%

• A variety of flexible benefits to meet your individual needs

• All colleagues receive complimentary access to LinkedIn Learning, featuring over 15,000 courses across a wide range of subjects. Learn what you want, when you want, and how you want.