Digital Product Manager

We are looking for two motivated professionals to join our vibrant Digital Solutions sub-team within the Digital Product Team in our English Language Teaching (ELT) division as Digital Product Managers. Defining the strategy for your assigned focus areas, you will be accountable for the future direction, user experience, competitive advantage, operational efficiency, and commercial success of your focus areas in order to ensure they meet business objectives. You will work in collaboration with colleagues and key stakeholders across the division and cross-divisionally, throughout the lifecycle (ideation to retirement) of the product, to oversee the product development roadmap, and to prioritise product features and business requirements to meet the needs of external customers and the strategy of the business. You will work closely with other Digital Product Managers, Product Designers, and Business Product Owners within the team as well as with stakeholders across functions and divisions. The Digital Product Manager plays a pivotal role in fostering collaboration between technology, product, sales,and marketing to deliver customer centric product and services. Please refer to the enclosed job description for the detailed key accountabilities in this role. Please note that we offer discretionary Pragmatic training opportunities to our Product Managers to support in attaining Pragmatic certification.

If you are a Product Manager with a passion for education and digital products looking for a new challenge in a supportive, creative and innovative team, then this opportunity will interest you. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experiences:

• Proven experience in defining and delivering successful digital products through the full lifecycle (ideation through to retirement.)
• Knowledge of education publishing market (desirable.)
• Proven ability to work with and influence cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with product / project management methodologies including Lean Product Management and Agile.
• A demonstrable understanding of commercial and financial planning.
• Building and managing successful, collaborative relationships with customers, commercial partners, and colleagues.
• Communication, networking and influencing skills within a matrix structure: to find a consensus and a way forward which balances needs.
• Great listening skills which facilitate the gathering of information from a number of sources to build the best product roadmap.
• Strong interpersonal skills and experience with complex stakeholder management.
• Experience of embedding change (desirable.), English Language Teaching
  
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We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.