Product Management Manager (Payroll)

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Product Management Manager (Payroll)

Company

IRIS Software

Job description

Our Product team are hiring and we have a fantastic opportunity for a Product Management Manager to build & shape the Payroll Managed Services offering, and IRIS’s go forward HCM solutions – Staffology Bureau, Staffology HR and Every HR.This role will be responsible and accountable for part of the Software & Service roadmap ensuring it aligns with the overarching IRIS strategic HCM roadmap of development and migration from heritage platforms, while delivering short-term tactical improvements to customers & colleagues alike.You will be responsible for articulating the commercial prioritisation of the backlog, creating business cases for larger initiatives & developments, and managing a team of Product Owners/Managers that own strategic functions within the Managed Service delivery.The role also requires you to ensure the product & value proposition meets the needs of the customer within a competitive marketplace, alongside working with operational & finance stakeholders to define the service levels & pricing are balanced to deliver value & return to both the customers and shareholders.What will you be doing?

• Liaise with key stakeholders to ascertain priorities for development
• In conjunction with product owners, document top-level requirements to enable engineering to create t-shirt sizing with detailed effort & costs
• Road mapping future engineering work, based on the above priorities, sizing and costings – to deliver maximum return on investment
• Continually challenge stakeholders on short-term disposable vs long-term strategic development within heritage platforms & the wider IRIS HCM function
• With Product Owners, create detailed & articulate bugs, stories, features and EPICs via JIRA & DevOps to allow engineering to understand & refine tickets
• Maintain the Priority List via Jira & DevOps to enable sprint planning via engineering
• working closely with the Product & Operational Directors in the shaping and delivery of the managed service offering
• To work with customers and colleagues via commercial and operational stakeholders to understand their short-term immediate needs and long-term aspirations to prioritise for the product, service, or technology roadmap/s
• To understand the market and competitors and seek out enhancements to give the payroll & HR service solution a competitive advantage.
• Manage the internal stakeholders across sales, marketing, support, legal, compliance, professional services, and engineering
• Keep a regular pulse check with customers / prospect via shadowing sales conversations, creating & hosting user-groups and conducting insight surveys
• Support the creation & maintenance of sales enablement collateral such as proposal documentation, sales presenters and brochureware.
• Ensuring that our marketing articulates the value proposition of our managed service solutions to drive increased MQLs
• Maintaining contractual suite & solution descriptions for our managed services propositions
• Maintaining the front-book commercials & rate-card/s alongside operational and finance stakeholders

What are we seeking?

• Background must include product management with payroll. The ability to work within a wider product team to ensure payroll product is compliant and fits in with the wider business strategy.
• Experience of working within product or dev management roles within UK payroll, with a good knowledge of payroll & HR processes/legislation
• Passion for technology and a drive to find the best solution
• Passion for people and establishing motivated, highly driven teams: caring about process, quality, setting and managing expectations
• Understanding of modern lean agile software development processes
• Experience of working with Key stakeholders to agree the roadmap deliverables, such as engineering, operations, finance & Professional Services
• Experience of competitive analysis and understanding the market
• Excellent analytical skills for establishing market trends by assessing multiple data points.
• Personality to work with fast-paced, dynamic, and challenging business environment
• Must show a commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction
• Experience of transformational/efficiency projects would be beneficial
• Ability to lead simultaneous initiatives in an entrepreneurial culture.
• Demonstrable experience of engaging with and putting the customer first
• Multi-task oriented with desire to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-starter, challenger, strategic planner, analytical thinker
• Proven experience of successfully launching new products
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Please note:We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.For UK candidates only:
Please note we are only able to accept candidates that are permanent UK residents or have proven permanent right to work in the UK.INDMEDAs one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.Email:Phone:

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Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 02:10:20 GMT

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