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Product Lead
November 24, 2017 | Comments Off on Product Lead
Product Lead
Solihull
Salary £32K to £34K
Our client is a leading skills and workforce development organisation. They have a broad portfolio of products and services including industry passport and skills based schemes as well as providing a robust way for employers to verify their workforce ability.
The Product Lead will support the Product Manager in the continuous improvement of the organisation's product and services portfolio - taking ownership of an assigned portfolio of products and services.
The role will establish and work with industry groups, and other internal colleagues, in the design, development, review, on-going monitoring and maintenance and refresh of products and services.
An important aspect of this role is to ensure that milestones and deadlines are met through pro-active project management of developments, including those of third party Associates, for whom they will also act as a single point of contact.
This role also includes all administrative tasks and duties associated with product and service development including associated materials.
Person specification:
You will have experience in product development, ideally within an awarding organisation or training provider, developing regulated and/or non-regulated training or qualifications and be experienced at developing and managing complex projects.
As this role is client facing, you will be able to demonstrate a high standard of interpersonal and communication skills with a track record of working with a range of clients and stakeholders.
Essential Skills/Experience:
Understanding of development and /or delivery of qualifications and/or training programmes
Understanding of qualification and training design and/or principles of assessment design
Managing a product portfolio across the full product life cycle to ensure they remain valid and relevant
Working with internal and external stakeholders and clients in the development of products/services ensuring solutions meet client needs; able to interpret business issues and recommend best practice solutions
Working with internal and external stakeholders and suppliers in developing qualifications or training or assessment
Enthusiastic and credible, a passion for product quality and innovation is essential.
High standard of interpersonal skills with the ability to build good working relationships with internal teams across the product development lifecycle and with external clients, stakeholders and Associates
Effective management and monitoring of project schedules to ensure timescales are kept and results delivered to standard and budget
Analytical and reporting skills, with a strong understanding of quality assurance process and KPI reporting
Desirable Skills/Experience:
Ideally a background in one of the following - utilities, energy, construction, etc.
Able to review and articulate lessons learnt
Working with computer based learning and assessment
If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks, unfortunately on this occasion you have been unsuccessful.
Strawberry Recruitment Solutions Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
Strawberry Recruitment Solutions Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.