Senior Product Manager - Data

As a market leader, iPipeline combines technology, innovation, and expertise to deliver ground-breaking, award-winning software solutions that transform the life insurance, protection, and financial services industry. With one of the industry's largest data sets, we help advisors and agents automate, digitally optimize, and grow their business to better secure the financial futures of their clients.

At iPipeline, you'll play a major role in helping us to provide best-in-class, transformative solutions. We're passionate, creative, and innovative, and together as a team, we continue to advance, accelerate, and expand the reach of our technology. We value different perspectives and are committed to creating an environment that embraces diverse backgrounds and fosters inclusion.

• Flexible Hybrid working.
• New, contemporary, open-plan office space
• Company matched pension benefits
• Generous Life and Critical Illness Cover
• Perkbox membership (discounts and freebies)
• 25 days holiday allowance plus option to buy and sell
• Well stocked kitchen of free soft drinks, tea, coffee and fruit
• An annual wellness allowance to keep you happy and healthy

• Managing Data products throughout the product lifecycle, including generating and gathering product requirements, managing roadmap, managing preliminary design concepts, balancing customer needs with technical architecture, and working with development and architecture to implement.
• Deliver market research including, industry research, customer engagement, internal staff feedback and competitor analysis.
• Following established business processes for taking new products to market.
• Manage and monitor identified new potential initiatives through initial exploration, prototyping and screening processes, including closing non-viable initiatives as soon as possible.
• Business documentation (and prototypes) of Data products considering targeting, positioning against competitor solutions, pricing, distribution or complementary solutions, support, sales collateral and drafting of PR releases.
• Develop business cases to obtain senior management approval, including assessment to ensure strategic fit with the business which are achievable within available resources.
• Open and manage new proposition ideas and channels.
• Communication of Data product development to internal and external stakeholders and customer groups. Research, prepare, and present cost benefit analysis of potential product implementation.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with customer teams to ensure we have a two-way communication on development plans and proposition design.
• Work closely with the marketing team to maximize Data product exposure in the market.
• Provide specialist Data product support throughout the business, including the adoption, support, sales and provider account functions. Work with Sales and lead clients to ensure effective design and take up of solution, including attending account meetings
• Work closely with cross functional teams to reduce the speed to market and facilitate effective product delivery covering; detailed project proposal, requirements gathering, marketing, sales, delivery, commercials, contracts, training and support
• Present reports to internal and external audiences in a variety of formats including face to face, web based and PowerPoint presentation
• To manage existing Data products, including backlogs and release notes

• Experience of product development lifecycle management
• Experience in Marketing Fundamentals such as customer segmentation, product pricing, and marketing auditing
• Knowledge of financial services technology solutions
• Developing a software/data solution from concept to market, including market research
• Strong organizational and planning skills
• Able to influence at highest levels with Strong interpersonal and presentation skills communicating the business value of data insight
• Highly numerate and data literate and comfortable interpreting and presenting complicated data artefacts
• Effective networking skills for building relationships with staff, customers, and providers