Job Title: Head of Product EU
Location: Hybrid working
Salary: Competitive base salary + benefits
Working Hours: 40 hours per week Monday – Friday
Job Status: Permanent
Who we are
The Constellation Technology Team provides a group-wide set of Technology Products and Services across the Constellation Automotive Group. This includes the following divisions BCA UK, We Buy Any Car, cinch and Marshall.
Our roles support both a cross section of divisions or could be dedicated to a single division. This provides a unique opportunity to experience a diversity of teams, technology and businesses across C2B, B2B and B2C. This also provides the possibility to change roles within the Group, and experience new challenges and opportunities.
About the role:
We're looking for a visionary Head of Product to lead our Product Teams, providing strategic direction and delivering business and customer value at pace. Collaborating closely with the wider product and engineering functions, as well as, our commercial and operations teams the Head of Product leads the team to execute against our strategy, and deliver the right commercial outcomes and customer benefits.
What You'll Be Doing
• Leading a tribe of 4-6 squads, you will own the vision and strategy for your tribe, whilst being hands-on and collaborating closely with the wider cinch teams
• Build and articulate the vision for your group of products to a growing team, breaking delivery down into meaningful and achievable goals
• Works with commercial leaders and Heads of Product to lead the development of the short-and long-term product and digital strategy in alignment with company's overall strategy and vision to grow the profitability and customer base.
• Ensure that prioritisation is done effectively and in alignment with business's requirements and ambitions.
• Planning the pipeline of delivery for your products, working closely with other tribes and stakeholders to manage dependencies and overlapping user journeys
• Lead a key area of a greenfield product, aided by a talented multidisciplinary team (Engineers, Product Designers, and Data Analysts)
• Drive the best user experience through our digital platforms, to ensure an efficient and frictionless experience
• Create a 360-degree landscape of requirements of the all BCA current and future products,services and digital assets by objectively assessing the needs and demands of all internal and external stakeholders. This includes driver, dealers, OEMs, employees and other areas of Constellation.
• Work with the Product Director to define and successfully manage the budget from the Product & Engineering function.
• Act as a thought leader and represent Constellation Product in external events and customer engagements.
What you'll bring
• Hands-on Senior Product Manager/Head of Product, who has led Agile product teams to deliver end-to-end user products and propositions
• Relationship skills - ability to develop and sustain positive and co-operative working relationships with a broad variety of company and partner personnel.
• Excellent team player, able to interact cross-functionally at different levels within the organisation
• Able to handle a high degree of complexity
• A tenacious approach with the focus and determination to get things done effectively, looking for solutions to overcome difficulties.
• Talent in bringing opportunities to life and storytelling to excite the partners.
• Highly motivated self-starter with a "can do" attitude
• Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to present complex data and arguments in clear and compelling manner.
• Strong negotiating & influencing skills with the ability to influence decision makers up to senior management level.
• Agile approach and ability to keep up with the pace of change, learn fast and adapt to the new conditions quickly and effectively.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make decisions in the face of incomplete information.
• Explorer's mind - curiosity, strong desire to innovate, take risks and think outside the box.
• Being detail oriented and having the ability to work at both strategic and detailed levels
• Strong commercial acumen; understands the key financial drivers and dynamics related to growth and revenue goals
• Significant, demonstrable repeat experience of delivering successful products
• Demonstrated motivational ability and inspiring leadership
• High level of personal ownership and unimpeachable business integrity
Ultimately, we care much more about the person you are, how you think and approach things, than a list of qualifications and buzzwords on a CV. Even if you can't say 'yes' to all of the above, but are smart, self-motivated and passionate about delivering a great product to market then get in touch.