Senior Data Product Manager - Data & Insights Platform

Senior Data Product Manager / Head of Data Products / Data Product Platform Manager / Senior Data Product Owner

£650-£750 per day - Umbrella engagement - 6 month initial contract - 2/3 days per week on site in London

We're looking for an experienced Senior Data Product Owner / Head of Data Product /Data Product Manager to join a major retail organisation and lead the next phase of a strategic data and insights platform, providing brands and suppliers with valuable commercial and customer insights.

This is a high-profile role sitting across Product, Data, Digital and Commercial teams, with responsibility for shaping the product roadmap, establishing effective governance and driving delivery. You'll need to be comfortable operating in a complex retail environment, bringing structure to ambiguity and translating data and commercial requirements into clear product priorities.

• Own, refine and prioritise the product roadmap, balancing commercial value, customer needs, dependencies and technical feasibility.
• Translate retailer, supplier and brand requirements into clear outcomes, epics and success measures.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog, working closely with data, engineering and digital teams.
• Establish effective product governance, operating models and ways of working across multiple teams.
• Lead product discovery to validate requirements and identify opportunities for new data and insight capabilities.
• Manage dependencies, release planning and delivery priorities.
• Communicate roadmap decisions, progress and trade-offs clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Define KPIs around adoption, engagement and commercial performance.

• Strong Product Owner / Product Management experience within complex organisations.
• Proven experience owning product roadmaps and backlogs across multiple delivery teams.
• Experience delivering data, analytics, insight or data monetisation products.
• Ideally strong experience within retail, ecommerce, retail media, supplier insights or customer data.
• Experience establishing governance and ways of working across Product, Data and Technology teams.
• Excellent senior stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Commercially focused with the ability to use data and evidence to make prioritisation decisions.
• Comfortable working autonomously and delivering at pace within an ambiguous environment.
• Experience of GDPR, modern cloud data platforms and retail data ecosystems would be advantageous.

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