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Product Manager
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The Modern Milkman
Product Manager
£45k - £50k
Manchester
Hybrid
Description
Hybrid requirements: 2 days per week in the office.
Introduction
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Product Manager to make an impact at a growing business with an inspiring mission.
The Modern Milkman is a purpose-driven business that delivers fresh ways to reduce waste for customers nationwide. Our goal is to reset our throwaway society, and, to date, we’ve saved 81,402,464 plastic bottles from polluting the planet. Not bad for a business that started as four friends from Lancashire delivering milk from a beat-up truck! To do this, we offer our customers the ability to make more planet-positive shopping habits one small, simple and very convenient step at a time.
The Product Manager will join an existing digital product management team, reporting into the Product Director. They will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving the product strategy and roadmap, and ensuring the wider business is aligned to this. They will work closely with stakeholders, customers, engineers and data analysts to uncover new opportunities to create value, and then lead the design and execution process to deliver it. At the highest level, this role will provide two key capabilities…
Product strategy & roadmap development which is the cornerstone of this role - in that we must understand where this product ultimately needs to go, and how we can get there. A great product strategy is one that continuously evolves based on an endless stream of insights (from market research to customer feedback to internal data, goals and worldviews). The strategy must be understood and rallied around by all key stakeholders, and used to define the next step the product needs to take (i.e. the roadmap).
Product delivery is the execution of the product strategy. A collaborative exercise across engineering and business SMEs, the product team must ensure we understand the “why” and the “what” when discovering and delivering a new feature or initiative, and importantly ensure all participants stay aligned to that goal.
This role will be focused primarily on our customer journey and would be perfect for someone that wants to be involved in every aspect of a new feature from planning and scoping, right through to designing, building and sharing the story behind the work as it launches. You’ll be wearing many hats and get involved in all aspects of building a product and company!
Responsibilities:
Ensuring we have a holistic, coherent and believed product strategy that drives our roadmap and ultimately ensures we are spending time on the right things
Someone with a complete understanding of the product; its strengths, weaknesses and limitations, and the work required to improve it
The knowledge and experience to be able to effectively turn a goal or concept into tangible activities and development plans that ultimately achieve the desired objectiveThe ability to ensure the wider business is aligned to the current priorities and roadmap and especially that they understand the why behind themContinuous capturing and analyses of feedback of all types and all sources, and the ability to act on these in the right way
Whilst ensuring key decisions are based on a wider strategy, also having the ability to react and flex to immediate business needs where applicable, applying the necessary pragmatismDriving a culture of continuous improvement, not just in the things we build, but also in the way we identify and build them
Requirements:
Previous experience in product management or a related role. Ideally in an E-commerce start-up environmentAble to develop effective product strategies based on holistic insights
Able to align the business to a product roadmap that also aligns to wider business objectives
Able to conduct effective product discoveries to collaboratively identify problems, opportunities and solutions that can be delivered well
Able to support the entire product & software development lifecycle including backlog management and delivery management support
Always honest and transparent about where we are and the context around it
Always independent and objective - driven by data and objectives, not opinion
Passionate and infectious with their belief and drive in the product
Collaborative at heart - facilitating effective ways of ensuring the right viewpoints and inputs are collected and considered
A lean mindset with a bias towards action - no heavy requirements gathering phases or business cases, instead a quick and iterative approach to solving problems
Driven and motivated by product and business outcomes, not project outputs and reports
If you feel like you might not meet all the requirements, but you are excited about this opportunity, please apply anyway. We are always happy to talk through the role with you informally.
The Modern Milkman
Product Manager
£45k - £50k
Manchester
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