Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Location: Manchester (Hybrid)

An established, multi-site organisation is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to take ownership of a portfolio of critical digital and IT products used across a large operational estate.

This is a senior, hands-on role with responsibility for end-to-end product life cycle management, working closely with technology, business change and operational stakeholders to deliver measurable value at scale.

The Role

You will be accountable for defining and delivering product strategy and roadmaps for complex, business-critical systems. Working within a squad-based delivery model, you will balance strategic direction with practical execution, ensuring products remain competitive, compliant and aligned to business priorities.

Key areas of focus include:

• Owning the product vision, strategy and roadmap across multiple digital products
• Managing the full life cycle from discovery and ideation through delivery, optimisation and retirement
• Leading stakeholder engagement across senior business, operational and technology teams
• Overseeing delivery, governance, risk and budget for product initiatives
• Using data, KPIs and insights to drive continuous improvement
• Ensuring products meet regulatory, security and data protection requirements
• Playing a key role in cutover and transition for major system changes

Essential Experience

We are particularly keen to hear from candidates with:

• Significant experience as a Senior Product Manager delivering complex digital or technology-enabled products
• Hands-on ownership of ERP platforms and/or clinical systems (eg enterprise Back Office, practice management, patient, finance, or operational systems)
• Experience working in healthcare and/or large-scale retail environments, ideally multi-site
• A strong track record of working within squad or agile delivery models
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams across product, engineering, operations and change

Skills & Capability

• Strong senior stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Ability to translate strategic goals into clear, prioritised product plans
• Confident communicator, able to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Excellent decision-making, prioritisation and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working in complex, regulated and fast-paced environments

Personal Attributes

• Strategic, outcome-focused and delivery-driven
• Collaborative, pragmatic and commercially aware
• Adaptable, resilient and comfortable managing competing priorities
• Leads by example and acts as a role model for positive team behaviours

Why Apply?

This role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale, mission-critical systems that directly support frontline operations, with real scope to influence strategy, technology direction and customer outcomes. Manchester-based with hybrid working, it suits someone who enjoys complexity, ownership and impact.