Insurance Digital Product Manager – contract

Staffworx are hiring for an experienced Senior Agile Product Manager for large customer in the insurance sector.

Senior Product Manager - General Insurance Digital Products

Role & Responsibilities

• Partner with client, strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
• Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the centre of everything we do while using design thinking tools
• Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
• Establish customer journey mapping to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
• Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritised features that will realise the product vision and value
• Validate and present the business case to C-level executives and lead business reviews to ensure the team prioritises the right features
• Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
• Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
• Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same programme increment (PI) objectives
• Collaborate with system architects to envision and prioritise system enablers
• Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining competitive advantage
• Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
• Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products

Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience in designing and launching new insurance propositions across major GI product lines (personal, SME and large commercial)
• Deep knowledge and understanding of the underlying insurance products and how they relate to customer needs
• Deep understanding of the future trends in proposition and product, the implications for insurers and the implementation journeys to consider
• Extensive experience of product design and relationship to key vendors features and capabilities
• Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximise flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organisation
• Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services - from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
• Proven ability in collaborating and leading Programme Increment (PI) cycles
• Proven ability to prioritise multiple demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
• Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
• Ability to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts, with success leveraging data to make decisions about product feature increments
• Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
• Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviours
• Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Set Yourself Apart With

• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager
• Certified Agile Product Manager

INSIDE IR35 - this assignment will fall within scope of IR35 legislation and appropriate umbrella company should be utilised during this assignment.

London & home working ( 2 days week on site)

6-12 months initial, long term extensions

to £800 day inside IR35

If you re interested in this opportunity, please email your latest CV, or call James for more information.

This advert was posted by Staffworx Limited - a UK based recruitment consultancy supporting the global E-commerce, software & consulting sectors. Services advertised by Staffworx are those of an Agency and/or an Employment Business.

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