Product Manager - Digital
About The Position
The Product Manager is a senior leadership role that bridges strategic product vision, set by the Head of Product, with the execution delivered by Product Owners across the organisation. This role is pivotal in translating product strategy, capability development, and coaching frameworks into clear guardrails, priorities, and roadmaps that enable Product Owners to operate effectively and consistently at scale. Working closely and leading the digital Product Owners, senior business leaders, and cross-functional partners, the Product Manager ensures that individual product strategies and roadmaps are aligned to Anglian Water’s wider business objectives. The role maintains strong collaborative relationships with Engineering, Architecture, and other enterprise digital and data capabilities to support the delivery, operation, and continuous enhancement of digital, data, and technology products. The Product Manager spans all strategic planning forums requiring product management input, ensuring coherence between business strategy, product direction, and execution outcomes. In this capacity, they are responsible for coaching, supporting, and guiding Product Owners, enabling effective coordination of product strategy across multiple domains. The role works in close partnership with the Head of Product to shape and evolve the organisation’s Product Management strategy, ensuring it is clearly communicated, consistently applied, and successfully realised through collective team delivery. The Product Manager will provide strategic leadership for Product Ownership at scale, shaping how digital product teams operate, make decisions, and deliver value across Anglian Water. They will coach and develop Product Owners, define clear product management guardrails, and build a strong, consistent product capability across the organisation. They will oversee and align the organisation’s product portfolios, ensuring priorities, roadmaps, investment, and costs are coordinated and deliver measurable business and customer value. Working closely with the Head of Product, Head of Technology and senior stakeholders, they will translate product strategy into actionable plans, manage budgets and total cost of ownership, and support robust planning, risk management, and ROI evaluation. The role will actively engage senior stakeholders, conduct market and competitive research, and establish feedback loops to ensure product strategy remains relevant, customer-focused, and future-ready. As a people leader, they will foster a safe, inclusive, high-performing culture that prioritises wellbeing, continuous improvement, and accountability, while inspiring teams to deliver excellent outcomes for customers, communities, and the environment.
Requirements
- Communicate with clarity and influence
- Engage stakeholders, understand complex needs, and balance competing priorities
- Lead strategic change and improving product capability at scale
- Foster a culture of continuous development and learning
- Collaborate effectively across disciplines to align teams and deliver shared outcomes
- Shape and execute product strategy
- Manage backlogs
- Drive customer-focused innovation using Agile and Scrum principles
- Lead with empathy and integrity
- Demonstrate inclusive leadership that inspires teams, builds trust, and champions diversity
- 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
- Awareness of UX principles and the value of intuitive, user-friendly designs, backed by user research and feedback mechanisms
- Basic understanding of the technology stack, allowing effective communication with developers and understanding of potential technical constraints
Nice To Haves
- Certifications like Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO1) PSPO2 or similar are often beneficial
- Scaled Agile experience of working across multiple Agile teams.
- Scaled Agile experience of working across multiple Agile teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for Product Ownership at scale
- Shape how digital product teams operate, make decisions, and deliver value
- Coach and develop Product Owners
- Define clear product management guardrails
- Build a strong, consistent product capability across the organisation
- Oversee and align the organisation’s product portfolios
- Translate product strategy into actionable plans
- Manage budgets and total cost of ownership
- Support robust planning, risk management, and ROI evaluation
- Actively engage senior stakeholders
- Conduct market and competitive research
- Establish feedback loops to ensure product strategy remains relevant, customer-focused, and future-ready
- Foster a safe, inclusive, high-performing culture
- Inspire teams to deliver excellent outcomes for customers, communities, and the environment
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
