(product manager, product owner, open finance, open banking, hybrid, Hampshire, Hants,Guilford, Surrey)

Hampshire (2 days onsite)

12- 18 months contract

My client are looking for an Open Finance Product Manager

• Client are a a leading bank and international payments network
• Open Finance is a technology platform developed and managed by Client
• The platform enables consumer permissioned data sharing with the outside world
• The platform is a key enabler to positioning in the Open Finance ecosystem
• We are an agile team operating with Product x Delivery x Engineering under one banner

What you'll do as a Product Manager':

• This role resides within OFH's Product Management function
• You will report into the OFH's Lead Product Manager
• You will primarily be responsible for:
• Scoping and defining large feature-sets for development
• Drafting intake, product requirement and business case documentation
• Contributing to ongoing roadmap and backlog prioritisations
• Reviewing technical documentation and spec/standard updates
• Partnering with Delivery Manager and Engineering counterparts to ensure smooth design and implementation
• Supporting development of OFH's overarching platform strategy
• Where needed, you will also support the Lead Product Manager in:
• Ad hoc strategy projects typically received from key executive forums (SteerCo)
• Drafting leadership updates and supporting the quarterly planning process
• Defining, refining and improving team operations and processes
• You will develop and maintain close working relationships with
• Delivery Manager counterparts
• Engineering and Architecture counterparts
• Program Managers
• The job's location: London, United Kingdom

Minimum Qualifications - ie What we need from you - the must-haves' and nice-to- haves'

• The must-haves'
• Prior experience in Product' - either as Product Manager or Product Owner
• Prior experience in management consulting, Big-4 or direct equivalent - in management consulting teams
• Minimum experience: 5 years
• Significant evidence in drafting well thought-through, highly structured documents and analysis with clear so-whats'. Samples will be requested.Nb. Candidates who do not meet the above will not be considered
• The nice-to-haves'
• Direct experience in open banking/open finance or FinTech equivalent
• Direct experience in developing data-led, connectivity solutions (B2B)
• Proficiency in product management software (eg JIRA, Miro, Trello )
• Ancillary experience/skillsets in project management or delivery roles
• Your attitudes, behaviours and ways-of-working'
• Accountable - you have a proclivity to take radical ownership over tasks and drive' to completion, overcoming obstacles in your way
• Diligent - you have as natural tendency to go below the surface', into the detail whilst keeping an eye on the 80:20'.
• First principles thinking - you have an ability to break-down problems, apply original thought leadership and provide recommendations that are specific, directly relevant to our context and executable
• Systems based thinking - you have an ability to think beyond the immediate next step' and frame recommendations in the context of broader objectives whilst also pre-empting unintended consequences
• Independent yet consultative - you have an ability to switch modes' between driving work as an individual contributor to taking a more consultative' approach particularly in cross-functional endeavours

Please send CV in first instance to be considered