Product Manager - Commercial Lending Products

• Product management of of Financial Products as we launch, amend and review products.
• NOT a Tech Product Management role. This is developing Mortgage products
• Great Base salary + up to 20% annual performance bonus & great corporate benefits.
• Country’s largest non-bank lender
• Friendly team, great career opportunities
• 26 days holiday, and a day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays
• Free access to company holiday homes
• Buy & sell holidays
• Discretionary annual bonus plus an additional Shared Reward Bonus
• Matched pension contribution
• Health cash plan plus Private medical insurance
• Life assurance and Critical illness cover
• Travel season ticket loans and Ride to work scheme
• Free local gym access
• Local bar / restaurant discounts
• Role based from great modern offices in Cheadle (South Manchester)

We’re Together. For over 50 years, we’ve helped thousands of people, businesses and professionals unlock their property ambitions with our common-sense approach to mortgages and secured loans.

We take the time to understand our customers and our door is always open, so we can often help when other lenders can’t or won’t. Based in Cheadle, Cheshire, our 900 colleagues help our customers throughout the UK, backed by the power of a £7.8 billion loan book. 

As a Product Manager, you will work with the team to redesign and rebuild many of our products for better alignment with our new lending platform, which is due to be launched as part our transformation programme. This is a varied role, working on a wide range of products i.e. mortgage product launches into the Residential Market followed by amending details of unregulated bridging products or even conducting annual reviews to ensure products meet customer requirements. Along with the rest of the team you will continue to manage the product set each day, enacting pricing changes and working with colleagues all over the business to identify future opportunities to improve the product set and drive lending performance. 

As a Product Manager, we are looking for someone to:

• Ensure that our product set is designed to support customer needs and drive commercial performance, and that the product set acts as designed
• Support effective risk management for products by identifying key risks and putting mitigants in place; ensuring good conduct is embedded in product design and performance
• Complete periodic review and renovation of products, and lead innovation activity to meet emerging customer needs
• Look for opportunities to continuously drive performance and improve products by gathering qualitative and quantitative insight into product performance
• Lead initiatives to drive and measure commercial finance product performance, and the setting and monitoring of performance KPIs and customer outcomes

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager with a proven ability to work in a fast paced and modern commercial environment, have the ability to think analytically and be willing to engage with Stakeholders across the Operation. Furthermore, ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Ability to push projects over the finish line with sound planning and persistent execution
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Good operational knowledge i.e. knows how a business works, success indicators, where to look for/anticipate trouble
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Strong communication-internally and externally, one-to one and in groups/presentations

If you feel you have some of the skills mentioned above, but not all, please do still apply and we would be happy to have a further discussion with you in regards to your suitability for the role.

Together embraces diversity and inclusion, and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Not only do we welcome difference – we celebrate it, support it and really value our colleagues for who they are. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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Please note that all successful applicants will undergo relevant employment reference, financial and criminal record checks.