Product Manager

We are looking for Product Manager for our client's project based Northampton, UK – Hybrid

Role Description:

The key purpose of this role is to manage Product Partnerships for Our Client Commercial Payments This will include, working closely with the wider Partnerships resources within BCP (Product Strategy and Sales) to ensure that we focus on the correct integrations. The core of the role is to select the right partners and work with the identified partner and to ensure we integrate with them in a clear and effective way. Developing and documenting the process and systems required to develop the correct integration to fulfil the relationship, testing and launching the successful integration making this a Business as usual channel for new business.

Key Accountabilities

• Work within BCP Product, and alongside Product Development
• Work with the wider BCP Partnerships resource (Strategy and Sales) to ensure successful outcomes
• Set the Integrations strategy for BCP relating to B2B Payments
• Own Product integrations with Partners to establish the best technical solution (including owning the testing and launch of the partners)
• Develop a strong working relationship with partners to define the correct approach, understanding both their capabilities and our own
• Develop and own the integration strategy of all partnerships (for set-up, Launch and BAU tracking)
• Own the identification of Partners that may be viable for Product Development relationships
• Develop and own the partnerships integration tracker, for status reports to Senior Management
• Stakeholder Management and Leadership
• Partners (Strategic / Commercial / Product Development)
• Product Strategy – Work very closely, to define technical capabilities to create successful strategies
• B2B Sales Team – Work very closely with, to ensure successful commercial outcomes and improve speed to market
• Product Management – Work closely with, to obtain market and industry insights
• Product Development – Work closely with, to understand strategy and fit with Product Development roadmap
• Sales and Account Development - Work closely with, to obtain market and customer insights
• Exco – Work with to communicate successes and challenges with regards technical integrations

Person Specification

• Ability to work well within small teams
• Very high level of communication skills and is comfortable being customer facing, and presenting to customers with little documentation to support the conversation, understanding that these communications at a senior level (internally and externally) will directly impact the success of the initiative
• Possess an in depth understanding of the commercial cards industry, and our place and capabilities
• Very strong understanding of the Procure to Pay (P2P) process
• Clear ability to take complex scenarios and make them simple
• High proficiency with process mapping (Value stream and technical) – an innate ability to make complex judgement calls based on sophisticated analytical thought and present these to customers
• Possess an in depth knowledge of the industry, and be regarded an SME in accounts payables processes
• Be that single point in the business to define our integrations strategy and to directly determine the success of business critical strategies (B2B Payments)
• Be capable of setting technical specifications that directly contribute to the success of the B2B Payment Strategy