Product Manager - Transport (IC) (12 Month FTC)

Why this job matters

As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for leading and identifying market opportunities and customer needs within transport planning, infrastructure, government and mobility sectors.

Your role will involve deep engagement with customers to understand their needs, problems to solve, drive product innovation, and ensure successful market adoption. You will partner with commercial teams to develop pricing strategies and compelling product narratives and use cases.

You will lead the development and delivery of data-driven products tailored to transport consultancies, local and central government, transport organisations and mobility companies. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including sales, data scientists and engineering, to define and communicate the product vision and roadmap for transport data products.

You will manage the end-to-end product lifecycle, from discovery and development through to launch, performance measurement/KPIs, and continuous improvement.

Key elements of the role include:

Product Strategy and Vision

• Define the transport data product strategy and vision, working with cross-functional teams including sales, engineering, and data science.
• Identify and evaluate market opportunities within transport planning, infrastructure, government and mobility sectors.

Product Lifecycle Management

• Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery and development through to launch, performance measurement, continuous improvement and decommission.

Backlog Management and Prioritisation

• Manage the product backlog and support all agile ceremonies with the delivery manager.
• Support quarterly review and prioritisation planning.

Product Discovery and Validation

• Perform customer product discovery to validate key hypotheses, validation of experiments and jobs to be done (experiments, MVPs, data tests, etc.).

Product User and Market Research

• Support user research working alongside user research teams to identify opportunity and validate product bets across transport consultancies, government and mobility sectors.

Defining and Tracking Product Metrics

• Define and implement actionable product metrics (OKRs, KPIs) to measure success, identify and validate issues and improvements.

Go-to-Market Planning and Coordination

• Deliver GTM plans for all transport data products aligned to product releases, marketing and sales initiatives.
• Partner with commercial teams to develop pricing strategies and compelling product narratives and use cases

The skills & experience you'll need

The ideal candidate will have had experience working for transport– ideally transport consultancies, urban planners or other urban regeneration developers. 

Key Skills  

Data proficiency

• Strong understanding of how data is used by transport organisations, local and central government, and mobility companies to plan and deliver transport infrastructure and services. Familiarity with geospatial data, Digital twins, GIS systems, footfall/dwell data, and location technologies.

Stakeholder Management

• Strong relationship skills to work across organisational boundaries and influence stakeholders across complex corporate and government structures.

Collaboration

• Cross-functional collaboration working closely with engineering, design, data science, operations, marketing, and sales to bring products to market and scale them

Intellectual Curiosity

• Happy to test, learn and validate, as well as execute go-to-market strategies that accelerate adoption and growth.

Clear communication

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working closely with sales teams and clients.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable product strategies.

Experience

• Experience in product management, particularly with B2B SaaS data-driven products.
• Experience of product management methodologies (Lean Startup, SCRUM, Kanban, KANO, etc) and agile delivery in a multi squad, data science and engineering environments.
• Experience working in a customer-focused environment with multiple concurrent priorities.
• Understanding of data pipelines, data-driven insights to inform prioritisation/ pivoting, or scaling decisions.
• Understanding of geospatial and MND data, including footfall, dwells + weblogs data.
• Knowledge of the technology and telco sectors.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

What's in it for you, what are the benefits?

• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• From January 2025, equal family leave:  receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled.  As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business. 
 
Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband.  Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other. 
 
While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come.  This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.  
 
Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented.  BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

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