Product Marketing Director

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR's track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers.

MHR is more than just a place to work; it's a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what's most important to you- work that matters.

As Product Marketing Director, you'll shape the future of our product portfolio and lead how MHR is perceived in the market from a product, service, and technology perspective. This is a high-impact leadership role where you'll own the innovation lifecycle from ideation through to launch, ensuring our products not only meet customer demand but anticipate it.

You'll drive the go-to-market strategy for new and existing solutions, helping define what we launch, when we launch, and how we position ourselves at the forefront of the HCM and Finance technology market. With a strong focus on scalable cloud solutions, AI-enabled capabilities, and exceptional customer experience, you'll play a pivotal role in influencing our long-term commercial success.

This is an opportunity to combine strategic thinking with execution, bringing innovative products and compelling market narratives to life while working alongside senior leaders across the business.

You'll lead and inspire a high-performing product marketing function, acting as the crucial link between product management, sales, marketing, and commercial teams. Together, you'll translate complex product capabilities into clear, customer-focused value propositions that accelerate growth across defined sectors and segments.

As a visible leader and product evangelist, you'll confidently represent MHR both internally and externally, whether that's leading strategic discussions, engaging customers and partners, speaking at events, or fronting campaigns and thought leadership content.

You'll foster a collaborative, inclusive, and commercially focused culture while driving operational excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement across the wider marketing operation.

You'll spearhead how MHR is perceived in the market from a product, service, and technology perspective, building a compelling narrative that positions us as an innovative, market-leading organisation.

You'll be responsible for:

• Defining and delivering successful go-to-market strategies that increase customer value and drive measurable business growth.
• Shaping and driving the market narrative around our products and services, generating demand, awareness, and competitive differentiation.
• Identifying emerging technologies, AI trends, and market opportunities to influence future product direction and innovation priorities.
• Leading high-impact product and service launches that achieve strong market traction and commercial success.
• Driving digital transformation initiatives, AI adoption, and platform evolution across the business.
• Building strong relationships with key stakeholders, customers, and partners to strengthen our market position and growth opportunities.
• Using insight, data, and commercial understanding to influence strategic decisions and deliver measurable outcomes.

We're looking for a commercially astute and visionary leader with proven experience within SaaS, technology, or HCM/Finance environments, who combines strategic thinking with a strong bias for execution.

Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
• Enhanced Family leave
• My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
• Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
• On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
• Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage

We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.

At MHR, we're completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported.

Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you're excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we'll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.