Head of Product Management Enablement

Head of Product Management Enablement

We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.

Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.

What does Access offer you?

We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.

On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you.

About you:

We are looking for a Head of Product Management Enablement to join the Transformation and Excellence team within Product and Engineering (P&E). You will be an expert in Commercial Product Management, and be passionate about making a difference for our Product community, the business, and our customers.

Responsibilities include:

1. Conducting business analysis to identify impactful changes.
2. Promoting best practices in various Product Management areas.
3. Defining success metrics and supporting transformation initiatives.
4. Maintaining Product Management processes and materials.

This role requires hands-on involvement in defining and executing initiatives, collaborating closely with senior stakeholders to enhance agility and incremental product development.

The ideal candidate will have significant Product Management experience, a passion for driving change, and strong communication skills.

Day-to-day, you will:

1. Contribute to defining and implementing key P&E initiatives to meet strategic and tactical objectives, collaborating with senior managers and stakeholders to achieve Transformation and Excellence goals.
2. Foster strong relationships and engage key stakeholders across functions, driving early involvement and rapid feedback to ensure buy-in and ownership of initiatives.
3. Collaborate closely with the Transformation, Engineering Excellence, and Programme teams to identify, implement, and manage optimal business practices, defining processes and metrics for Product Management at a macro level.
4. Champion telemetry, feedback, and data usage to understand user value and manage business/commercials, actively participate in the Product Management Guild, and own BAU Ops activities such as templates, training, and reporting.

Your skills and experiences might also include:

1. Proven Commercial Product Management experience with a focus on passion, resilience, flexibility, ownership, accountability, pragmatism, and collaboration.
2. Strong critical-thinking skills, able to adapt to shifting priorities and timelines, work at pace, and resolve ambiguity while achieving goals.
3. Hands-on experience in Software Engineering with a solid understanding of best practices in an Agile environment.
4. Excellent communication and influencing skills, capable of engaging with senior leadership, navigating senior-level relationships, and supporting teams through significant change.

What are we all about?

The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient.

Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology; we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.

At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity.

Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you?

Let's make a difference together.