Product Management Specialist
Pearson VUE
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Rotherham • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Develop strong ties with business and technology stakeholders to understand the context of the UK qualifications division to co-create solutions to business problems.
- Ensure customer requirements are captured and documented, maintaining appropriately sized and prioritised backlogs for delivery into a release.
- Work with business and technology colleagues to ensure requirements are in line with strategy, will drive business improvement and are clear and fully understood.
- Work with technology teams to deliver refined requirements to time and budget, and deliver the business benefit outlined in the business case.
- Provide a point of contact between business stakeholders and technology teams – including development progress updates.
- Ensuring demonstrations of progress are provided to stakeholders and user feedback is used to inform continuous improvement.
- Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap to ensure the team builds valuable, viable solutions.
- Drive efforts to uncover and validate customer problems, write Market Requirements Documents (MRDs) and Product Requirements Documents (PRDs).
- Define and map existing and target business processes.
- Ensure all analytical artefacts are produced in a consistent and timely manner with a high degree of accuracy and completeness.
- Consider functional and non-functional requirements for any proposed solution.
- Work as part of a project team to deliver projects to schedule whilst ensuring deliverables remain in line with strategy and within defined scope.
- Track and analyze product performance to ensure solutions deliver the intended value.
Requirements
- Practitioner of delivery using Agile methodologies, with experience of using JIRA an advantage.
- Experience of identifying business problems statements, identifying solutions and automation opportunities
- Experience of business process transformation
- Experience of supporting the development lifecycle for requirements from concept through to testing and usage.
- Skilled in translating requirements into quality user stories with clear and valid acceptance criteria
- Understand the principles of good software development
- Ability to work independently with strong communication, influencing, and leadership skills
- Ability to build partnerships and work in a collaborative environment
- Strategic thinker with the ability to motivate and drive tactical execution
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, especially in a teamwork environment
- Highly organised with strong time management including the ability to coordinate multiple efforts and address changes in priorities.
- Strong oral and written communication skills particularly to support cross business and technology dialogue including demonstrating progress and communicating issues to stakeholders
- Self-motivated with a proven ability to motivate and empower others
- Possess the Core skills such as Customer Discovery, Product Development, Data Analysis, Storytelling, Design Thinking, Strategic thinking and technology road map
- Ability to quickly understand business detail in unfamiliar areas.
- Ability to create and maintain accurate artefacts that can be clearly understood by a variety of stakeholders.
- Experience of eliciting and refining stakeholder requirements desirable
Benefits
- Hybrid working
- Flexibility on working hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Agile methodologiesJIRAbusiness process transformationMarket Requirements Documents (MRDs)Product Requirements Documents (PRDs)user storiesacceptance criteriadata analysiscustomer discoverydesign thinking
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluencing skillsleadership skillscollaborative environmentstrategic thinkinganalytical skillsproblem-solving skillstime managementself-motivatedability to build partnerships