Principal Product Manager - Product Coach
Posted 12 hours 35 minutes ago by Mott MacDonald
£85,000 - £110,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
I.T. & Communications Jobs
Not Specified, United Kingdom
Job Description
Principal Product Manager - Product Coach Cambridge, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom
Location/s: Camridge or London Recruiter contact: Nikki George
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance - we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
With digital innovation and excellence at the core of our purpose, we are known for our digital portfolio across the AEC sector and constantly strive to be at the forefront of the intersection between technology and engineering.
Moata, our industry leading internal and external facing platform, hosts a range of solutions that harness the power of data to solve today's most pressing infrastructure challenges around the globe. It is open, secure, scalable and adaptable-delivering predictive power in a geospatial context through advanced analytics and machine learning.
We are launching a new product portfolio that will become the foundation of all project delivery at Mott MacDonald:
A collaborative delivery platform that brings together project teams, partners and clients into one place to simplify and supercharge project delivery, delivering better outcomes for society across global infrastructure delivery.
This AIenabled platform will set us up for the next decade of transformative technology change. We aim to lead the industry with a highly ambitious vision. Initial pilots are live; now we seek a highly skilled and effective Principal Product Manager to confirm our strategy, accelerate progress and deliver impact at scale.
Are you ready to shape the future?
As a Principal Product Manager, you'll be at the forefront of our digital transformation journey. Your role won't just be about managing products; it's about driving outcomes, creating impact and empowering change. You will lead the product management function in a 250 strong team of product leads, product managers, developers, data scientists and designers-driving and owning our ways of working across the entire product management organisation globally.
What You'll Focus On
Formal Education & Experience
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments . click apply for full job details
Location/s: Camridge or London Recruiter contact: Nikki George
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance - we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you're surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
With digital innovation and excellence at the core of our purpose, we are known for our digital portfolio across the AEC sector and constantly strive to be at the forefront of the intersection between technology and engineering.
Moata, our industry leading internal and external facing platform, hosts a range of solutions that harness the power of data to solve today's most pressing infrastructure challenges around the globe. It is open, secure, scalable and adaptable-delivering predictive power in a geospatial context through advanced analytics and machine learning.
We are launching a new product portfolio that will become the foundation of all project delivery at Mott MacDonald:
A collaborative delivery platform that brings together project teams, partners and clients into one place to simplify and supercharge project delivery, delivering better outcomes for society across global infrastructure delivery.
This AIenabled platform will set us up for the next decade of transformative technology change. We aim to lead the industry with a highly ambitious vision. Initial pilots are live; now we seek a highly skilled and effective Principal Product Manager to confirm our strategy, accelerate progress and deliver impact at scale.
Are you ready to shape the future?
As a Principal Product Manager, you'll be at the forefront of our digital transformation journey. Your role won't just be about managing products; it's about driving outcomes, creating impact and empowering change. You will lead the product management function in a 250 strong team of product leads, product managers, developers, data scientists and designers-driving and owning our ways of working across the entire product management organisation globally.
What You'll Focus On
- Drive strategic impact: Play a central role in developing our product management capability, aligning innovation with measurable outcomes. As part of a focused product leadership team, help steer the direction of digital products that support decarbonisation, resilience and efficiency across global projects.
- Collaborate across sectors: Work closely with specialists in engineering, design, software development and data science. Your work will be shaped by diverse perspectives and deep domain expertise, ensuring our products are technically sound and meaningful to the people who use them.
- Integrate AI thoughtfully: In our AI enabled ecosystem, embed intelligence into our products in ways that enhance user experience and commercial value. Focus on understanding customer needs and translating them into intuitive, data informed solutions that support sustainable outcomes.
- Define and communicate a compelling product vision aligned with broader organisational goals and industry leadership ambitions.
- Develop product roadmaps that balance customer needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility.
- Incorporate feedback from customers and stakeholders into strategy and prioritisation.
- Drive our ways of working for the entire product management organisation-codifying frameworks for discovery, delivery and measurement.
- Coach and support PMs, SPMs and PPMs globally to achieve their product goals, leading by example as the portfolio owner.
- Embed lean, agile and modern product management practices and contribute to the continuous evolution of our product function.
- Lead end-to-end product development for the collaborative delivery platform portfolio, from concept to delivery and scale up.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams (engineering, design, domain experts, marketing) to ensure successful execution.
- Monitor progress, manage risks and adapt plans to deliver high quality outcomes.
- Conduct market research to identify trends, customer pain points, and the competitive landscape.
- Gather insights from customers, project teams, business development, and industry experts.
- Use data driven analysis and experimentation to inform decisions and validate assumptions.
- Engage proactively with internal and external stakeholders, including clients and partners.
- Understand their needs, pain points and business objectives, translating them into actionable product features and outcomes.
- Communicate progress, decisions and trade offs clearly and credibly.
- Define metrics to measure product success and track performance across discovery, delivery and adoption.
- Continuously improve based on user feedback, telemetry and market dynamics.
- Make informed decisions about enhancements, updates and retirements to optimise value.
- Understand the B2B landscape, industry trends and competitive forces across the AEC sector.
- Identify growth opportunities, partnerships, and areas for differentiation.
- Balance short term revenue goals with long term strategic vision and platform sustainability.
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to infuse AI capabilities (e.g., predictive analytics, intelligent assistance, automation) into the platform.
- Ensure AI solutions align with customer needs, ethical standards, security and commercial value.
- Strategically leverage data and AI insights without overengineering-creating innovative, user centric and commercially viable products.
Formal Education & Experience
- University degree in business, engineering or a related field.
- Extensive product management experience (preferably B2B), including leadership of complex products or portfolios.
- Track record of successful product launches, client satisfaction and influencing organisational practices.
- Strong leadership and communication skills; able to influence without direct authority.
- Strategic thinker with a customer centric mindset and a bias for action-passionate and visionary, yet pragmatic and delivery focused.
- Proven collaboration across functions and with senior stakeholders.
- Adaptability in a dynamic business environment; comfortable with discovery, ambiguity and iteration.
- B2B software, enterprise solutions or industrial sectors.
- Partner management and ecosystem development.
- Technical software background; knowledge of AI and data products desirable.
- Experience shaping product operating models and ways of working at scale.
- Clear, validated strategy and accelerated delivery for the collaborative delivery platform portfolio.
- Adoption, usage and measurable outcomes across global projects.
- Maturity and consistency of product management practices across all portfolios.
- Positive feedback from PMs and stakeholders on coaching, frameworks and leadership.
- An opportunity to lead a high performing product management organisation and change industry.
- Industry leading platform (Moata) and an ambitious new portfolio at the centre of project delivery.
- Experienced team around you with award winning technology and deep domain expertise.
- A chance to set the standard for modern product management in a mission driven, employee owned organisation.
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments . click apply for full job details