Junior Product Manager

Overview

In this role, you will help shape and deliver digital products that support the Great Grid Upgrade and the energy transition. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to translate challenges into strategic product choices and measurable outcomes. You’ll balance user needs with business goals, governance, and security considerations to drive value at scale. This is a hybrid position with collaboration across Warwick and occasional UK travel, offering opportunities to influence product strategy in a critical infrastructure program.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary 57,000-65,000
• Bonus based on personal performance
• Contributory pension with up to 12% company match
• Share incentive plan
• Salary sacrifice car and technology schemes
• Employee assistance lines and matched charity giving

Responsibilities

• Contribute to product strategy and roadmap aligning user needs, business outcomes, technical direction and priorities
• Lead and support discovery, scoping, requirements definition and prioritisation through delivery and service transition
• Develop clear investment papers and business cases detailing problem, options, benefits, costs, risks, dependencies, outcomes and recommendations
• Support stakeholder buy-in and navigate digital, commercial, financial, security and governance processes
• Coordinate delivery across Product Owners and cross-functional teams; identify blockers, risks and dependencies and drive resolution
• Build relationships, communicate progress clearly, and challenge assumptions constructively
• Research market trends and technologies to inform product and investment decisions
• Champion secure-by-design, compliant and operable products considering identity/access, information protection, resilience and change governance
• Support adoption and translate technical choices into clear business language and practical outcomes

Key requirements

• Broad technical knowledge across digital products, platforms, integrations, data, identity, security, cloud services and operations
• Product thinking spanning strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, value and measurable outcomes
• Self-managed work style with ability to prioritise and maintain momentum
• Strong commercial and investment mindset; ability to assemble evidence and articulate benefits and costs for governance
• Clear written and verbal communication; ability to simplify complex information for varied audiences
• Experience delivering digital products, projects, platforms or services in fast-paced environments
• Working knowledge of agile delivery and collaboration with Product Owners, engineering, architecture and delivery teams
• Ability to build relationships, influence constructively, listen well and respond professionally
• Understanding of risk, dependency and stakeholder management in a complex enterprise environment
• Customer and user focus using research, feedback and data to improve products

• Communication
• Stakeholder management
• Collaborative mindset
• Identity and access management
• Security, governance controls (DLP, retention, audits)
• Enterprise architecture principles (APIs, data flows, non-functional requirements)

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