Description
The Associate Director Product Management - NPI & Direct Procurement role involves balancing business value, user experience, technical feasibility, cost, risk, compliance, and operational sustainability throughout the product lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with Business Process Owners, functional leaders, and users to understand strategic priorities and translate them into clear product outcomes.
- Defining and maintaining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for assigned products and capabilities.
- Developing outcome-based investment proposals and contributing to business cases.
- Setting prioritisation guardrails for Product Owners and making roadmap trade-offs.
- Guiding Product Owners and delivery teams to ensure epics, features, and releases remain aligned to product outcomes.
- Coaching Product Owners in discovery, backlog, and value-measurement practice.
- Partnering with Solution, Enterprise, Data, and Security Architects to assess solution options.
- Establishing and reviewing product performance measures.
- Ensuring product initiatives comply with required governance.
- Using approved AI tools in day-to-day work and leading the team in using them.
- Leading product-level vendor, platform, and solution evaluations.
- Managing product risks, technical debt, dependencies, adoption, and operational readiness.
The role requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related discipline, typically 7+ years in product management, supply chain, or procurement technology, and experience in digital products and portfolio management, Agile, iterative, user-centred, and data-led delivery.