Product Manager/Owner (YellowJacket)

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Product Manager/Owner (YellowJacket), Watford

Client:

BRE

Location:

Watford, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

Job Reference:

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4

Posted:

18.04.2025

Expiry Date:

02.06.2025

Job Description:

BRE contributes to a thriving and sustainable world by developing science-led solutions to built environment challenges. Our vision is to be the world-leading innovation, science, and data hub for the built environment. We’re ambitious in terms of quality and global scope. We want governments and commercial markets to recognise us and demand our services, products and solutions. We want to be world-class, innovative, science-led and provide solutions.

Make your mark at BRE!

Help BRE make buildings safer and more sustainable!

BRE aims to be the world’s leading innovation, science and data hub for the built environment. For more than a century we have provided government and industry with cutting-edge research and testing. Join us to help deliver products, advice, services, standards and qualifications used around the globe to make buildings better for people and the environment. Through science-led solutions to urgent challenges, we will build a thriving and sustainable world.

About the Role
We’re looking for a Product Manager to lead the development, delivery, and growth of YellowJacket – BRE’s digital platform for health, safety, and quality management in the built environment.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

1. Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from roadmap development to release and ongoing improvement.
2. Drive commercial performance, including pricing, profitability, and revenue tracking.
3. Collaborate with internal teams and external development partners to ensure alignment and delivery.
4. Gather and act on user feedback, market trends, and performance data to shape product enhancements.
5. Ensure product compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
6. Manage product integrations with BRE systems and services (e.g. SmartWaste, BREEAM).
7. Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders to deliver against strategic and operational goals.
8. Monitor key product metrics and adjust delivery plans as needed to maximise impact.

What we are looking for

1. Proven experience in managing digital products or systems, ideally in a health, safety, or construction context.
2. Experience leading cross-functional teams and working with both internal and external development partners.
3. Strong understanding of product lifecycle management and commercial performance tracking.
4. Familiarity with regulatory requirements and compliance in the built environment or related sectors.
5. Ability to translate user needs and business requirements into product improvements.
6. Confident stakeholder engagement and communication skills, including experience managing competing priorities.
7. Comfortable working with agile methodologies and digital delivery approaches.
8. Relevant qualifications or certifications in product management, agile practices, or health and safety (e.g. Certified Scrum Product Owner, IOSH).

At BRE, we offer a competitive salary, reviewed annually, and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your financial security, wellbeing, and career development.

Financial & Security Benefits

• Life assurance – 4x your basic salary.
• Enhanced maternity package.
• HealthPartners cashback scheme – Reclaim costs on prescriptions, physiotherapy, dental care, and more.
• Onsite facilities – Restaurant, nursery, and free parking, including at-cost EV charging points.
• Learning & development – Free access to BRE Academy and our online learning platform.
• Professional membership reimbursement.

For full details on our benefits, visit: BRE Employee Benefits.

Work Location

Mostly Remote – This role is primarily home-based, with occasional travel to our head office in Watford for planned meetings (once per month with occasional travel to customers' sites once per month).

Our Recruitment Process

Online Assessment

Shortly after you apply (within approximately 10 minutes), you’ll receive a link to complete an online assessment. This takes around 20 minutes and helps us better understand your skills and suitability.

Our specialist hiring team will review all applications and shortlist candidates. We’ll then update you on the outcome of your application.

First Stage Interviews – 30th April to 14th May

If shortlisted, we will invite you to a virtual or in-person interview.

Second Stage Interviews – 20th to 29th May

If successful in the first stage, you will be invited to a virtual or in-person second-stage interview.

Note to Employment Agencies

At BRE, we value the relationships we have built with our preferred recruitment partners. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from employment agencies. Any CVs submitted directly to a BRE employee or hiring manager without a signed BRE Employment Agency Agreement and an active engagement for the specific role will be considered unsolicited. In such cases, no fees will be payable should the candidate be hired through this or any other means.

BRE is an equal opportunities employer. We assess all qualified applicants based on merit and do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.