Product Manager Teaching and Learning (109477-0824)
For informal enquiries, please contact Rachael Johnson (Head of Portfolio, Teaching and Learning) at Rachael.Johnson.1@warwick.ac.uk.
Product Managers are responsible for the development and continuous improvement of products within the portfolio spanning very significant areas of university operations or services.
The roles provide strategic leadership for the vision, ongoing development and innovation of significant products and/or platforms, driving the definition, design, prioritisation, planning and execution of products/platforms, and developments throughout the product lifecycle. The roles provide senior matrix management to design, delivery, and development teams, and will influence stakeholders at all levels to ensure customer needs and University strategic goals are met.
Post holders are responsible for driving forward a ‘digital first’ approach, championing the use of technology, transformative practices, and a culture of continuous improvement to achieve service excellence. They will provide strategic leadership and oversee the end-to-end product lifecycle management, from competitive analysis, research and customer/user engagement to discovery, business case, design, implementation, and ongoing performance management and continuous improvement. They will champion the customer voice in product/service development to ensure their needs are central to prioritisation and decision-making.
You will have a good understanding and experience of working with digital technologies concerned with the teaching and learning domain. You will have a strong understanding of business processes used across teaching and learning including curriculum management, library collections, curriculum delivery, assessment and marks management, amongst others.
You will have experience of strategic product planning and the development and delivery of product roadmaps. Ideally you will also have experience of project management methodologies which can be applied to deliver new products as well as approaches for ensuring the continuous improvement of existing products.
You will have excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build and maintain these with stakeholders concerned with products, services, tools processes and policy requiring a degree of understanding of technical, user and strategic aspects of product delivery.
For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.
The Information & Digital Group is responsible for a new University Digital Strategy to support the University’s ambitions to be world-class in all it does. IDG is central to the delivery of the University strategy by providing a high-quality service to all of our stakeholders, enabling the University to prioritise its requirements, and to deliver this service in a manner that maximises value at every stage
IDG strives to provide excellent, highly responsive relationships and partnerships, to be innovative leaders with vision and strategy, to provide enterprise architecture that drives innovation across the institution, to deliver products and projects on time, cost and quality through services that always meet service level agreements. We need to operate in an increasingly agile, digital-first environment, being able to quickly assess risk and seize opportunity.
The IDG Portfolio Delivery team defines the processes, tools and standards for all IDG programmes thereby ensuring delivery to time, cost & quality. The team ensure the delivery of projects, products and platforms that provide tangible value, outcomes and benefits to the university. Portfolio Delivery also creates great experiences by delivering at the right speed and in close collaboration with the University.
Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We’re one of the world’s top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be ‘world leading or internationally excellent’**.
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*QS World University Rankings 2024
** Research Excellence Framework 2021
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CLOSING DATE: Thursday 05 September 2024 at 11.55pm
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Interview Date: TBC
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We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.
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