Product Manager - Subscription Services - Employment,career opportunity in UK

Job Title:  Product Manager - Subscription Services
Job Type    Permanent
Location    Birmingham
Start Date    ASAP
Salary    £40k - £45k pa + benefits
Ref No    268292-00006602_764557


Birmingham's only publishing house is currently recruiting for a Product Manager - Subscription Services to join their collaborative and dynamic team at their Central Birmingham Offices.

The Company
They are a leading publisher of books, video and information services, dedicated to providing the optimum learning and problem solving solutions to software developers and IT professionals Worldwide. Their mission is to deliver the most efficient and cost effective solutions for this community and they strive to continuously improve their products to make them ever more relevant, practical and valuable in meeting the evolving needs of their customers.

The Role
This role is responsible for managing the information platform and services - developing both the functionality and commercial performance of the service, and successfully connecting it to the global developer community.

Responsibilities
- Gather and analyse Market intelligence of the global IT developer community, creating a segmented model of potential customers by country, business organisation type and technology category
- Use Voice of the Customer, surveys or focus group processes to understand the information and learning needs of software developers and from this interpret and prioritise customer and key stakeholder requirements
- Development of the product strategy and vision, gaining the subsequent buy-in working across multiple functions including Marketing, Sales and Development teams
- Definition and end-to-end responsibility of the Product roadmap and target customer experience
- Identify new market opportunities and planning of the product portfolio
- Work across core functions to develop the business cases, functional specs, project documentation and user interfaces
- Define the commercial and pricing product portfolio models and take ownership of Product P & L
- Build relationships with key stakeholders and 3rd party vendors and partners
- Develop the key Marketing messages and collateral for the subscription service and work with the Marketing team and external agencies to deploy these as effectively as possible to drive traffic and subscription revenue

Essential Requirements
- Minimum 3 years in a Product Management role
- Educated to degree level or similar
- Proven background of building and/or managing successful online products
- Customer focused with the ability to build key relationships and collaborate with colleagues across all levels
- Attention to detail with a goal oriented approach to progressing tasks

Person Specification

- High level of interaction at all levels
- Communication is key
- Ability to build effective working partnerships
- Acting as a change agent with a clear vision and goal
- Championing all aspects of the product's function and commercial performance
- Ability to deliver at the detail level as well as the big picture
- Consistent, Confident, Team Player




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