The Associate Director Product Management - NPI & Direct Procurement role involves balancing business value, user experience, technical feasibility, cost, risk, compliance, and operational sustainability throughout the product lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
Partnering with Business Process Owners, functional leaders, and users to understand strategic priorities and translate them into clear product outcomes.
Defining and maintaining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for assigned products and capabilities.
Developing outcome-based investment proposals and contributing to business cases.
Setting prioritisation guardrails for Product Owners and making roadmap trade-offs.
Guiding Product Owners and delivery teams to ensure epics, features, and releases remain aligned to product outcomes.
Coaching Product Owners in discovery, backlog, and value-measurement practice.
Partnering with Solution, Enterprise, Data, and Security Architects to assess solution options.
Establishing and reviewing product performance measures.
Ensuring product initiatives comply with required governance.
Using approved AI tools in day-to-day work and leading the team in using them.
Leading product-level vendor, platform, and solution evaluations.
Managing product risks, technical debt, dependencies, adoption, and operational readiness.
The role requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related discipline, typically 7+ years in product management, supply chain, or procurement technology, and experience in digital products and portfolio management, Agile, iterative, user-centred, and data-led delivery.
