Product Manager - 18 Month FTC

Company Description

Informa helps the world work better. We enable people and organisations to grow by connecting them with valuable information, ideas and opportunities. We do this through specialist publications, events, training and market intelligence.

Informa Connect organises major branded annual events and operates specialist digital communities that are key convening places for a particular market.

We run around 800 events each year in over 60 countries, create digital platforms based on engaging news and information content, and operate professional development programmes for individuals and businesses in Global Finance, Life Sciences and Pharma and in a number of other specialist markets.

Professionals in every specialist market have a need to meet, learn, network and be seen by peers and partners at their community’s most important events.

We create powerful and imaginative environments for businesses and professionals to connect and learn, and continually enhance our events with new features and innovative content and formats.

Our customers include delegates who pay to attend events and training. We also provide event-based and digital sponsorship and marketing opportunities for businesses looking to reach and connect with specialist communities.

Job Description

Informa Connect is seeking an experienced Product Manager to oversee the migration of new business acquisitions to our existing products and platforms, as well as manage division requirements for shared internal systems. This role involves close collaboration with the Head of Product and various cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and alignment with our strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Roadmap Development: Collaborate with the Head of Product to define and develop product strategy, roadmaps, and success metrics for various initiatives across Informa Connect.
• Mergers & Acquisitions: Serve as the product lead for new mergers and acquisitions, identifying product requirements and managing systems integration.
• Product Improvement & Monetization: Contribute to business cases for new products and enhancements to existing ones, inline with monetization strategies.
• Backlog & Prioritization: Prioritize product features, manage the backlog, and own the product roadmap, influencing third-party solutions as necessary.
• Requirement Gathering and communication: Gather business requirements to inform internal systems development, new features and platform roadmaps.
• Third-Party Management: Identify, evaluate, and manage third-party software providers to meet current and future needs.
• Site Migrations: Lead site migrations, gathering requirements, creating gap analyses, and liaising with relevant teams.
• User Feedback & Research: Develop methods for continuous user feedback collection and integrate findings into product strategy.
• OKRs & KPIs: Contribute to and own OKRs and KPIs for relevant products.
• User Experience: Work with UX, research, and product teams to define user journeys, develop concepts, and test prototypes.
• Platform Integration: Ensure full integration of all platform ecosystem elements, including commercial aspects.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a subject matter expert, guiding and supporting colleagues.
• Customer Engagement: Engage with customers to deeply understand their needs and use insights to influence product decisions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams to manage dependencies and ensure successful product rollouts.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a product manager, preferably in the information services sector. Experience managing internal systems.
• Experience in acquisition integration and managing internal systems is a plus.
• Ability to rapidly acquire domain expertise in market, business lines, product design, and technology platforms.
• Demonstrable commercial expertise and understanding of finance, analytics, and marketing.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to form, lead, and develop cross-functional teams.
• Experience in fostering an iterative, test-and-learn culture.

Skills:

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in product management frameworks and methodologies. Experience working in Jira, a plus.
• Strong analytical skills with a data-driven mindset.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

Additional Information

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world