Product Management Manager

Product Management Manager

UK Remote

Competitive plus Bonus and Benefits

Our Product team are hiring and we have a fantastic opportunity for a Product Management Manager to build & shape the Payroll Managed Services offering, and IRIS’s go forward HCM solutions – Staffology Bureau, Staffology HR and Every HR.

This role will be responsible and accountable for part of the Software & Service roadmap ensuring it aligns with the overarching IRIS strategic HCM roadmap of development and migration from heritage platforms, while delivering short-term tactical improvements to customers & colleagues alike. 

You will be responsible for articulating the commercial prioritisation of the backlog, creating business cases for larger initiatives & developments, and managing a team of Product Owners/Managers that own strategic functions within the Managed Service delivery.

The role also requires you to ensure the product & value proposition meets the needs of the customer within a competitive marketplace, alongside working with operational & finance stakeholders to define the service levels & pricing are balanced to deliver value & return to both the customers and shareholders.

What will you be doing?

• Liaise with key stakeholders to ascertain priorities for development


• In conjunction with product owners, document top-level requirements to enable engineering to create t-shirt sizing with detailed effort & costs


• Road mapping future engineering work, based on the above priorities, sizing and costings – to deliver maximum return on investment


• Continually challenge stakeholders on short-term disposable vs long-term strategic development within heritage platforms & the wider IRIS HCM function


• With Product Owners, create detailed & articulate bugs, stories, features and EPICs via JIRA & DevOps to allow engineering to understand & refine tickets


• Maintain the Priority List via Jira & DevOps to enable sprint planning via engineering


• working closely with the Product & Operational Directors in the shaping and delivery of the managed service offering


• To work with customers and colleagues via commercial and operational stakeholders to understand their short-term immediate needs and long-term aspirations to prioritise for the product, service, or technology roadmap/s


• To understand the market and competitors and seek out enhancements to give the payroll & HR service solution a competitive advantage.


• Manage the internal stakeholders across sales, marketing, support, legal, compliance, professional services, and engineering


• Keep a regular pulse check with customers / prospect via shadowing sales conversations, creating & hosting user-groups and conducting insight surveys


• Support the creation & maintenance of sales enablement collateral such as proposal documentation, sales presenters and brochureware.


• Ensuring that our marketing articulates the value proposition of our managed service solutions to drive increased MQLs


• Maintaining contractual suite & solution descriptions for our managed services propositions


• Maintaining the front-book commercials & rate-card/s alongside operational and finance stakeholders

What are we seeking?

• Background must include product management with payroll. The ability to work within a wider product team to ensure payroll product is compliant and fits in with the wider business strategy. 


• Experience of working within product or dev management roles within UK payroll, with a good knowledge of payroll & HR processes/legislation


• Passion for technology and a drive to find the best solution


• Passion for people and establishing motivated, highly driven teams: caring about process, quality, setting and managing expectations


• Understanding of modern lean agile software development processes


• Experience of working with Key stakeholders to agree the roadmap deliverables, such as engineering, operations, finance & Professional Services 


• Experience of competitive analysis and understanding the market


• Excellent analytical skills for establishing market trends by assessing multiple data points.


• Personality to work with fast-paced, dynamic, and challenging business environment


• Must show a commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction


• Experience of transformational/efficiency projects would be beneficial


• Ability to lead simultaneous initiatives in an entrepreneurial culture.


• Demonstrable experience of engaging with and putting the customer first


• Multi-task oriented with desire to work in a fast-paced environment.


• Self-starter, challenger, strategic planner, analytical thinker


• Proven experience of successfully launching new products


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Please note:

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.