Informa Connect is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead our Life Sciences product portfolio with a mandate to upgrade our product development approach and drive customercentric innovation. As the Senior Product Manager you will be an independent strategic individual who can help put in place product development best practices challenge existing thinking and implement a robust customer centric approach.
You will collaborate with the Head of Product and various crossfunctional teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment with our strategic goals.
Initial Priorities
Realign product development from a businesscentric to a customerfirst approach
Navigate and resolve conflicting stakeholder requirements and enable collaboration between the business and technology
Enhance user research capabilities
Drive strategic prioritization based on datadriven insights
Responsibilities
Strategy
- Strategy & roadmap development: Collaborate with the Head of Product to implement Connects Product Development framework define and develop the product vision roadmaps and measurable success metrics
- Requirement gathering and communication: Gather business requirements to inform new features and platform roadmaps
- Define user journeys develop concepts and validate prototypes
- Develop and communicate product strategies that balance business objectives with genuine customer needs
Roadmap Management
- Manage and prioritize product backlogs with a rigorous evidencebased approach
- Develop compelling business cases for product enhancements and new initiatives grounded in customer value and commercial potential
- Evaluate and manage thirdparty software providers to ensure optimal solution fit
- Work with head of product management to monitor spending vs. budget.
Relationship Management
- Work with stakeholders to adopt a customercentric product development approach using robust research and data as the foundation for decisionmaking
- Maintain a strong relationship with the technology team ensure their understanding of the product strategy and their role to enable the execution of the roadmap through a smooth handoff of requirements. Maximize utilisation of allocated technology resources.
- Create detailed product reviews for the leadership team with clear recommendations supported by: comprehensive user research demonstrable customer benefits concrete use cases and commercial implications.
- Serve as a strategic bridge between technical teams senior leadership and customer needs
- Confidently and professionally challenge proposed solutions that do not align with customer requirements
- Facilitate crossfunctional alignment by creating clear datadriven narratives that illustrate customer impact and business value
Analytics & Voice of Customer
- Conduct comprehensive user research to deeply understand customer workflows pain points and unmet needs
- Translate complex customer insights into clear user personas detailed product briefs and actionable roadmaps.
- Design and implement robust methods for continuous user feedback collection
- Contribute to and own OKRs and KPIs that reflect both customer satisfaction and business performance
Qualifications :
Desired Competencies
Strategic thinking balanced with tactical execution
Ability to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics
Good storytelling skills to communicate a product vision
Required Qualifications
Demonstrated success in handson product management roles in complex multistakeholder environments
Demonstrated ability to implement product management frameworks
Great communication and negotiation skills
Analytical capabilities with a datadriven decisionmaking approach
Experience in translating complex customer needs into actionable product strategies
A background in Life Sciences or related complex B2B/B2C industries is a plus
Additional Information :
We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Heres some of what you can expect when you join us. But dont just take our word for it see what our colleagues have to say at LifeAt.Informa.com
Our benefits include:
- Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
- Great community: a welcoming culture with inperson and online social events our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
- Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer with charity match funding available too
- Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning mentoring platforms and ondemand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When its time for the next step we encourage and support internal job moves
- Time out: 25 days annual leave rising to 27 days after two years plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
- A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from plus company funded private medical cover
- A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
- Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance mental health first aiders a healthy living subsidy access to health apps and more
- Recognition for great work with global awards and kudos programmes
- As an international company the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
Were not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most although not all of the skills and experience listed we welcome your application.
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Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime