Data Product Manager

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Birmingham

1 year ago

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Your new role

Own the management of the data team's product roadmap and development backlogs, ensuring clarity, prioritisation, and alignment with business will establish strong relationships with stakeholders, including senior managers, data owners, business users, and IT.
Define clear features, user stories, MVP and acceptance criteria for data products.
Assess regulatory requirements and technical prerequisites and prioritise these alongside business requirements.
Lead sprint planning activities, collaborating with team members to estimate effort, review and refine estimations and maintain a well-structured data and analytics backlog.
Work with business analysts to establish and estimate data requirements for projects, enabling delivery within scope and time constraints.
Lead user acceptance testing and gather user feedback to refine and enhance data products iteratively, fostering continuous improvement.
Support the development of aprehensive business glossary epassing data definitions, business logic, and other metadata to ensure clarity and consistency across data outputs.
Ensure data productsply with relevant laws and regulations, particularly those related to data privacy and security.
Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging data management, analytics, and cloudputing technologies.
Identify opportunities for improvement and innovation to enhance the organisation's data capabili

What you'll need to succeed

- Degree level education or equivalent in a related field, or significant work-based experience with evidence of continuous professional development.

- Experience as a data product owner, project manager or similar role.
- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, data analysts, and business stakeholders, to define, document, estimate and prioritise requirements.
- Experience in defining acceptance criteria, conducting user testing, and gathering feedback for iterative product improvements.
- Knowledge of data regulations and standards, including GDPR and awareness of information security risks and controls.
- Track record of successfully managing product roadmaps and backlogs.
- Experience of facilitating sprint planning including user story prioritisation and estimation, and other agile project management activities.
- Strong knowledge of data management,ernance, and analytics.
- Understanding of relational and non-relational databases, familiarity with SQL, scripting, and machine learning concepts.
- Knowledge of system integrations, cloud platforms and API protocols.
- Knowledge of regulatory andpliance requirements related to data including GDPR, with a strong awareness of information security risks and mitigations.
Role Specific
- Excellent project management and organisational skills.
- Strongmunication and interpersonal skills, engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels andmunicatingplex information to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to think strategically, pay close attention to detail, and proactively research solutions and best practices, with proven analytical, organisational, and planning skills.
-mitted to working collaboratively and building effective relationships with people of all capabilities and attitudes.
- Self-motivated with amitment to flexibility in delivery and style to meet business needs and pressures.
-mitted to own professional development and the development of colleagues.

What you'll get in return

25 days holiday rising to 30 days after qualifying service A thorough training and development plan Opportunities for progression A range of voluntary and salary sacrifice benefits Benefits portal for discounts at many retailers

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