Director Product Management Consumer Products

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

This is a great opportunity for a seasoned professional with comprehensive experience operating within the Consumer Products / FMCG space, specifically b2b (or b2b2c) experience.

If you have an abundance of the above mentioned experience then this could be the role for you. Responsibilities will be as follows:

• Partner with clients, consultants, and strategists to articulate business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes or customer experience
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively based on competitive benchmarking, industry and market trend analysis, and customer journey mapping – to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
• Translate product strategy into a roadmap containing well-defined and prioritized user stories, and features and enablers that will realize the product vision to assist the client in achieving a long-term competitive advantage
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
• Design and enable solutions or digital transformation initiatives that enhance business value delivery and responsiveness for our clients by applying Lean and Agile practices and frameworks
• Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
• Inspire, lead, and mentor a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

• Demonstrated success managing digital products, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions/services from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
• Significant industry knowledge and expertise within FMCG / Consumer Products
• Proven ability to prioritize competing demands and obtain buy-in from stakeholders
• Deep understanding of design thinking principles, having led or facilitated workshops to cultivate the innovation process
• Ability to solve complex business problems to maximize value while balancing technical constraints
• Mastery in techniques and methodologies that maximize flow of value and are deeply rooted in Agile, Lean and continuous delivery principles – with a passion to extend that understanding throughout the organization
• Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
• Ability to use storytelling to influence decisions without formal authority
• Comfortable with financials, KPIs, and forecasts with success leveraging such data to make decisions about product iterations

• Hybrid working model and flexible working hours
• Strong people first company culture
• Numerous learning opportunities to support your professional growth
• Amazing opportunities for career progression
• Staff incentives and rewards schemes
• Company pension plan and occupational disability insurance
• Ergonomic chairs and height adjustable desks, dog friendly offices
• Discounts on travel, culture, and leisure activities
• “Work Your World Program” – every Publicis Sapient employee is entitled to work anywhere in the world for up to 6 weeks every year.
• Vibrant workplace culture with various events throughout the year (e.g. after works events, healthy breakfast, free coffee, snacks)

Publicis Sapient UK is a Disability Confident employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions to apply for this position, and we will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments at any point in the process, please get in touch as soon as possible by emailing [email protected]. Publicis Sapient UK will then work with you to explore and implement adjustments as and where these are possible. If you have any questions regarding adjustments, please email us at [email protected]