Principal Product Manager

Join Mintel and help shape the future of global consumer insights. 

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our growing Product leadership team — someone who can blend visionary thinking, market obsession, and product execution excellence to lead Mintel into its next era of innovation and growth. 

This role is a unique opportunity to operate at the highest strategic level — guiding product direction, aligning across the business, and building cutting-edge solutions that shape entire industries. 

Why This Role Matters 

As Principal Product Manager focused on our One Mintel AI Platform Proposition & Roadmap, you’ll: 

• Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives across the product portfolio. 

• Drive lean, data-driven product development that delivers measurable ROI. 

• Ensure strategic alignment between product vision and company-wide goals. 

• Partner closely with senior global stakeholders and C-suite to turn product strategy into real-world impact. 

• Help define how Mintel builds product – not just what we build. 

This isn’t just about feature releases. It’s about redefining market categories, driving multi-million-pound growth, and ensuring Mintel stays indispensable to the world’s leading brands. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

Drive our Vision Forward: 

• Bring to life Mintel’s multi-year product strategy, identifying transformational opportunities across our portfolio. 

• Build market-defining roadmaps rooted in client insight, commercial reality, competitive intelligence, and long-term impact. 

Drive Strategic Delivery: 

• Lead high-priority, cross-team and cross-functional initiatives, guiding other product managers, design, data and engineering teams toward aligned outcomes. 

• Orchestrate large-scale initiatives across commercial, marketing, data, futures and engineering teams, with trust and influence to drive complex delivery. 

Direct Commercial Impact: 

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Consulting leaders to design and execute go-to-market plans for major launches. 

• Build compelling business cases and value propositions to drive adoption, retention, and revenue growth. 

• Support commercial team as a trusted product team representation in winning high-value client proposals. 

Influence at the Highest Level: 

• Operate as a trusted advisor to C-suite and global leadership. 

• Drive clarity, alignment, and excitement around product strategy across the organisation. 

Be a Product Culture Shaper: 

• Champion lean methodologies: including MVPs, rapid experimentation, fast validation, and continuous learning. 

• Help reimagine how product is built at Mintel — AI-first thinking in discovery and validation to delivery and measurement. 

• Lead the strategic use of AI/ML in product development to gain competitive advantage. 

• Coach and mentor product managers to elevate the craft across the team. 

What We’re Looking For 

Essential: 

• 10+ years in Product Management, including time at a Principal/Lead level. 

• Proven experience leading strategic, cross-functional product initiatives spanning multiple teams and domains. 

• Deep knowledge of lean product development and ability to implement it across teams. 

• Strong commercial acumen with a track record of delivering significant revenue impact and supporting high-value client proposals. 

• Executive-level influencing and stakeholder management experience — you know how to bring the business with you. 

• Sharp communicator — you bring clarity and confidence to the overarching product vision and roadmap.  

• Proficient in tools like MixPanel, Productboard, Jira, and data analytics platforms. 

Preferred: 

• Master’s degree or MBA. 

• Experience working with Data Science, AI, or Data Engineering teams. 

• Background in strategy or management consulting. 

• Nice to have: Exposure or experience in FMCG 

What you'll get in return: 

• A culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working with a company wide hybrid working week.
• Approach to personal development where we encourage individuals to grow and share what they’ve learned.
• Social events, both within the department and across the company
• Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy back additional holiday.
• A day off to celebrate your birthday
• Giving back is part of our culture with this in mind Mintel gives each employee 2 days per year to give to a worthwhile cause.

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