Product Manager - Data and Platforms

Anglian Water Services•Lincoln, NE

1d•$63,000 - $75,000•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a high-impact leadership role at the heart of Anglian Water’s data and digital transformation. As Product Manager for Data & Platforms, you’ll bridge bold product vision with real-world delivery, working closely with the Head of Product to shape how data and platform products enable the entire organisation. You’ll turn strategy into action — setting clear product guardrails, shaping roadmaps, and empowering Product Owners and Technical Product Owners to deliver at pace and at scale. By bringing alignment, focus, and energy to the product community, you’ll ensure teams are motivated, connected, and driving meaningful outcomes. Working across engineering, architecture, and enterprise digital teams, you’ll create strong, collaborative partnerships that enable smarter decisions and scalable, resilient platforms. You’ll operate at senior levels across the business, ensuring product strategies are fully aligned to Anglian Water’s priorities and translated into value-driven delivery. As a leader, you’ll coach and develop senior Product Owners and Technical Product Owners, building a strong, future-ready product capability. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping product management standards, influencing strategic planning, and coordinating product strategy across complex data and technology landscapes. If you’re passionate about data, platforms, and leading product teams to deliver impact at scale — this is your opportunity to shape how product management drives value across Anglian Water. The Product Manager – Data & Platforms will provide strategic leadership and coaching across Product Owners (POs) and Technical Product Owners (TPOs), building a strong product management capability and ensuring teams are aligned, motivated, and delivering effectively. They will define product management guardrails, oversee performance metrics, and foster continuous learning and capability improvement across the product community. They will own organisational product portfolio management and planning, ensuring alignment across data and platform products, collaborating with architecture, analytics, and AI teams, and translating overarching product strategy into actionable roadmaps. They will manage budgets, ROI, total cost of ownership, and risk, ensuring products deliver tangible value at scale. The role involves senior stakeholder engagement, market insight, and product research, gathering feedback, tracking trends, and enabling colleagues to make the most of corporate data, ensuring the product strategy is competitive, innovative, and customer-focused. As a people leader, they will champion a culture of health, safety, wellbeing, inclusion, and continuous improvement, inspiring trust, collaboration, and high performance across the team. We’re looking for a strategic and experienced product leader who can drive data and platform product strategy at scale. They communicate with clarity and influence, engaging stakeholders to understand needs and negotiate priorities. They lead strategic change, foster capability improvement, and collaborate effectively across teams to align delivery and outcomes. Experienced in Agile and Scrum ways of working, they manage backlogs, make informed decisions, and drive customer-focused innovation. Above all, they lead with empathy, integrity, and inclusivity, inspiring teams, championing diversity, and creating a culture where everyone can thrive.

Requirements

Strategic and experienced product leader who can drive data and platform product strategy at scale
Communicate with clarity and influence, engaging stakeholders to understand needs and negotiate priorities
Lead strategic change, foster capability improvement, and collaborate effectively across teams to align delivery and outcomes
Experienced in Agile and Scrum ways of working, they manage backlogs, make informed decisions, and drive customer-focused innovation
Lead with empathy, integrity, and inclusivity, inspiring teams, championing diversity, and creating a culture where everyone can thrive
Degree or equivalent demonstrable experience in role
Prior experience in product management, Agile, Scrum, DevOps modes of operation, business analysis, or a related role in software development
Basic understanding of the technology stack, allowing effective communication with developers and understanding of potential technical constraints
Awareness of UX principles and the value of intuitive, user-friendly designs, backed by user research and feedback mechanisms

Nice To Haves

Certifications like Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO1) PSPO2 or similar are often beneficial, Scrum at Scale Scaled agile & product Management
Scaled Agile experience of working across multiple Agile teams.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic leadership and coaching across Product Owners (POs) and Technical Product Owners (TPOs)
Define product management guardrails
Oversee performance metrics
Foster continuous learning and capability improvement across the product community
Own organisational product portfolio management and planning
Ensure alignment across data and platform products
Collaborate with architecture, analytics, and AI teams
Translate overarching product strategy into actionable roadmaps
Manage budgets, ROI, total cost of ownership, and risk
Senior stakeholder engagement
Market insight and product research
Champion a culture of health, safety, wellbeing, inclusion, and continuous improvement

Benefits

Full private healthcare with no excess
26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
A flexible working culture
Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up to 6%
Life Assurance at eight times your salary
Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
Bonus Scheme
Lots of great discounts
Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family