Product Manager

Summary

Join NEC Software Solutions as a Product Manager for NEC Housing, a home-based role with UK travel. You will be instrumental in developing and delivering cutting-edge products for the social housing sector. Responsibilities include market research, collaborating with customers, defining product requirements, building business cases, and managing third-party relationships. The ideal candidate possesses experience in UK social housing, asset management, compliance, or repairs, and a strong understanding of project lifecycles. This role offers opportunities for growth and progression within a dynamic team focused on revolutionizing the housing sector. Join us and make a lasting impact!

Requirements

• Experience in UK Social Housing, either as a customer or software solution provider
• Experience of asset management, compliance and/or repairs management in the social housing sector
• Strong knowledge of project life-cycle, methodologies, and delivering projects on time and budget
• Experience in defining product enhancements, UI/UX design, and Agile new product development
• Experience with housing management systems or related software

Responsibilities

• Carry out market research to understand legislative, regulatory, competitive, economic landscape, as well as changing market drivers for your business process areas
• Become the expert in your product area, with the ability to deal with queries from customers and internal stakeholders
• Collaborate with customers through co-design workshops, User Group sessions and customer meetings to fully understand what’s happening in the sector and how this influences customer requirements
• Define customer business needs and objectives to ensure that NEC Housing products and solutions meet or exceed customer/market expectations
• Build business cases to define market uptake, pricing and margin analysis
• Identify any 3rd party requirements to complete the user requirements. Liaise and manage requirements with 3rd party suppliers, systems integrators or other organisations as required
• Define the roadmap for your product area(s)
• Assist the Pre-Sales/Sales team with the production, review and management of bid responses, sales proposals and quotations, as required
• Produce and deliver presentations for both customer and internal audiences
• Support product launch activities

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Proven ability to build relationships and understand client perspectives
• Effective time management and resource allocation
• Strong decision-making skills
• Full, valid UK/EC driving license for travel
• Experience in end-to-end product life cycle management
• Experience of designing digital solutions for the social housing sector, including mobile apps and web platforms
• Proficiency in tools like Figma, JIRA

Benefits

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions up to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs