Head of Product - People Division

Loughborough, England, United Kingdom

12/19/2024

About you: 
• As a Head of Product, People Division Medium Large Business you will coordinate product management and be responsible for the strategic direction of the product. You will be responsible for overall coordination of product activities for Medium to Large Business and integration with the wider Access Group products to ensure a cohesive, strategically focused approach. You will be a member of the People Division Product and Engineering leadership team working closely with the wider Access Engineering team ensuring synergy and alignment.

• You will develop the product strategy for the Medium to Large Business sector, liaising with Marketing, Sales and Customer Success. You will hold overall responsibility for the various product roadmaps and lead the product team in an outward market and customer-facing approach whilst ensuring execution of roadmap ambition. You will work closely with the wider Product and Engineering management team in divisional investment appraisal, planning and execution.

• You will work closely with HR and Finance to facilitate Supply and Demand needs and capabilities to ensure we have appropriate resource needs clearly articulated, and with Finance to ensure close liaison on our costs and forecasts.


Day-to-day, you will: 
• Leading the MLB Product Management team including roles such as Product Manager, Product Owner, Product Launch Manager and Business analysts
• Lead as Product Manager for MLB , managing all required artifacts including business case, market positioning, competitor analysis and product roadmap.
• Review product status, and initiate product status monitoring and alignment planning to move products into a cohesive position in the overall Access portfolio.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders and all other departments and divisions to communicate activity
• Participating and presenting at User Groups, roadshows, events and other forums and broadly acting as primary product evangelist for MLB.


Your skills and experiences might also include:  
• Strong knowledge of the HR & Payroll industry.
• Experience in integrating & building products.
• Experience in managing mature product portfolios
• Strong programme/project management skills and experience of change management
• Be agile and perform effectively in multi-tasking fast-paced environments
• Excellent verbal and written communication as well as receptive listening skills, with ability to present complex ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences
• Self-managing and working virtually (with some requirement for in person meetings/events)
• Attention to detail
• Excellent team player who can work with virtual, global, and cross-functional teams
• Capacity to manage high stress situations
• Experience of or demonstrable understanding of complex business to business operational processes
• Demonstrated self-starter with an ability to manage and motivate other team members
• Experience managing the strategy, roadmap and go-to- market development of SaaS solutions is strong plus
• Comfortable managing multiple projects with tight deadlines and running big strategic projects with challenging or short deadlines
• Proven professional experience in the technology industry
• Proven experience in Product roles including product launch
• Proven experience leading product teams and multiple stakeholders within multi-division and matrixed structures
• Experience in payments

 
What does Access offer you? 
We offer a blended approach to office working, encouraging you to collaborate and connect in one of our thriving offices. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We'll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career. 


On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you're with us), and a matched pension scheme, you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We're an organisation that likes to give back, so you'll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you.    


What are we all about? 
The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.
 

At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity.
Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together.


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