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Norway (Remote)

Key Responsibilities • Market Research & Analysis: Stay updated on customer needs, market trends, competitor landscape, and industry changes. • Discovery: Validate assumptions and refine ideas by understanding real user problems to find the best solutions. • Product Feedback Management: Manage a backlog of user and customer feedback to guide discovery, roadmaps, and priorities. • Roadmapping: Develop and communicate a flexible product roadmap based on insights from discovery and research, adaptable to changing needs. • Feature Definition & Prioritisation: Prioritise features based on customer feedback, competitor analysis, and growth opportunities. Collaborate across teams to balance Feasibility, Viability and Desirability. • Product Analysis & Success Metrics: Define and monitor success metrics for product releases to assess performance and support data-driven decisions. • Product Marketing: Prepare sales and marketing teams with materials, campaigns, and messaging to educate customers about the product. • Pricing & Packaging: Define value perception, competitive comparison, and purchasing decisions. • Release Management: Maximise the commercial impact of product releases by coordinating with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service.

Fully Remote

Key Responsibilitieso Conduct and synthesise user research, collect feedback, analyse usage data and troubleshoot issues / support to guide product strategy, roadmap and backlog prioritisation and decisions.o Lead SCRUM team from discovery, through solution space to delivery and release with the use of workshops and artefacts including mockups, epics and user Stories and SCRUM ceremonies.o Product marketing activities: market research, product demos, release notes and FAQs.o Product growth activities: Identify metrics and tools to set and measure value and impact of features.Main AchievementsSuccessfully delivered platform features to remove pain points identified with the outcome to address Churn risk and increase Adoption and Retention.Domain / ProductMarTech with Facebook, LinkedIn and Google, SaaS, Data Science and Analytics

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilitieso Work closely with clients and Lead Agile, cross-functional project teams to deliver maximum Product value.o Make data and outcome-driven decisions and prioritisation through Qual & Quant User Testing / Insight and Journey mapping. o Classic PO activities including defining Product Vision and Goal, planning, managing Product Backlog, prioritising and reviewing User Stories.o Agile Delivery / Project Management activities including continuous improvements of Agile Ways of Working, Budgeting, RAID management and reporting.Clients:Cazoo, Barclays, RBSI, Corteva, Emerisque, PepsiCo, ToolstationProducts:Web & App, E-commerce, APIs, Fintech, Content, Retail, Agritech, Data & Analytics

Year off to spend time with family, travel, study & practice for my Dive Master & 200 hours Yoga Teacher Training. I spent significant time in Norway with family, Mountaineering in the Himalayas, Months in India living in Ashrams and studying with Great Yoga Masters & getting my Yoga Instructor certification, Rock Climbing & Scuba diving around the world kicking off my PADI Dive Master Trainee programme & much, much more.. 🧗‍♀️🤸‍♀️🚴‍♀️🧘‍♀️🗺🦈👌

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilitieso Lead PM and PMO teams in London, Vilnius and Bangalore. o Provide strategic, structured and consistent platform for managing delivery of Euromonitor’s technology portfolio through Portfolio, Programme & Project Management principles and governance. o Manage 3rd party vendors, roadmaps, RAIDs and priorities across the technology Portfolio.o Enable resource planning and ultimately control and deliver to Cost, Time, Scope and Quality.o Report to CTO, work with CEO and C-level Stakeholders and form part of Euromonitor’s Technology Leadership team.Main Achievementso Established new Head of PPM role, PM and PMO roles and teams, working to standard, best practices through continues improvements plans.o Introduced appropriate level of governance and process to manage selection, prioritisation and management of programmes and projects, and to balance projects and BAU for ROI optimisation [incl. Initiative selection, Business Case review, Benefit tracking and project and program Boards]. o Set up system to provide dynamic, transparent status and progress communication of all live projects with RAG, dashboards and roadmaps.

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities o Lead, mentor, develop and manage Product Management and Business Analysis teams in London and Bangalore.o Work with key stakeholders and end users across the company to elicit, analyse and understand business requirements / problem statements, client insight and business opportunities. o Recommend and define product vision, strategy and feature roadmaps across all external and internal products [incl. Passport / SaaS and Euromonitor.com / e-commerce]. o Translate business requirements into technical work items and work with technology teams throughout product life cycle to deliver, maintain and support against goals / KPIs.Main Achievementso Pitched idea for new PM and BA team, successfully awarded role as Head of, recruited and established new roles and teams within the company.o Outlined team’s Agile practices [incl. customer satisfaction, working software and continues improvements], Artefacts [incl. Backlog, PBIs / User Stories with Acceptance Criteria] and Ceremonies [incl. Refinement, Planning and Review].o Found methods of working to allow PMs and BAs and multiple, cross-functional, distributed SCRUM teams to work effectively together [Dev, DB/A, UX, UI and QA across five locations]. o Acted as a bridge between business and technology teams and established new approaches with stakeholders, marketing, communications and sales teams to outline pre-and post-launch activities.

Key Responsibilitieso Lead .NET Development team, manage and mentor developers. o Manage new development projects through full SDLC. o Coordinate and oversee maintenance and deployment across multiple apps and systems in collaboration with business and technology teams.Main Achievements o Recruited, managed and mentored new team of developers.o Created knowledge sharing and peer programming environment in which the team became proficient in latest technologies.o Introduced and implemented standards, protocols, methodologies and framework [SCRUM] for team to work to. o Identified improvements through understanding business requirements and evolved suite of applications and solutions to solve problems and save time [money].

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities o Understand requirements and problem statement from Research teams and end users. o Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and support Research applications. Main Achievementso Introduced new ideas with emphasis on usability and GUI and with focus on reusable, maintainable and extendable code.o Developed to Object Oriented principles using design patterns throughout, with attention to robustness.o Introduced TDD.o Took initiative for team meetings, communication improvements and peer programming.

Key Responsibilities o Support, maintain and develop Microsoft Certificated Utilities software to specifications gathered directly from clients both on and off site.o Test, deploy, deliver and demo upgrades.o Estimate project costs, design GUI and mentor new developers.Main Achievementso Understood suite of products within a short period of time, advancing rapidly from small support tasks to taking on responsibility for developing one of Sonlinc’s most complex billing systems. o Established excellent client interaction and relationships.o Ability to work as a full stack developer in an Agile manner.