Product Manager - Corporate Technology at Jefferies, London Area, £Contract Rate

Position Overview

The Product Manager is a business-facing role within Corporate Technology's Product Management organization. The role partners with Corporate and Business stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and drive delivery of business outcomes across Corporate functions.

The Product Manager acts as the bridge between business and technology, owning end-to-end capabilities, front-to-back outcomes, and product roadmaps. The role is responsible for ensuring technology investment is focused on the right priorities, aligned to business strategy, and delivering measurable value. Engineering teams deliver the technology solution; Product Management owns the business outcome and value realization.

Responsibilities include

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand strategic objectives, challenges, opportunities, and priorities
• Define and maintain product roadmaps aligned to business objectives and Corporate Technology strategy
• Identify opportunities to improve business processes, operational efficiency, scalability, controls, and user experience
• Manage prioritization of demand, ensuring investment is focused on the highest-value outcomes and business needs
• Define business capabilities, requirements, success measures, and expected outcomes for product initiatives
• Drive front-to-back collaboration across multiple business and technology teams to ensure alignment of objectives and delivery
• Conduct current-state and future-state process analysis across Corporate functions
• Elicit, document, and manage business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, and user journeys
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to document requirements, identify pain points, and define target-state solutions
• Partner with Engineering teams to define solutions and to deliver agreed business outcomes
• Manage and communicate product roadmaps, priorities, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs to stakeholders and senior management
• Establish and track KPIs, value metrics, and outcome measurements to assess effectiveness and business impact
• Support business case development, investment decisions, and strategic planning activities
• Produce executive communications, status reporting, presentations, and materials for senior stakeholders

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Business Analysis, Program Management,or related disciplines within Financial Services
• Experience supporting one or more Corporate functions, including Regulatory, Compliance, Legal, Data, Finance, Treasury, Operations, Human Resources, Client Onboarding, or Loans
• Strong understanding of business processes, operating models, controls, and technology enablement within Corporate functions
• Strong business analysis skills, including requirements elicitation, workshop facilitation, process mapping, gap analysis, and documentation of functional and business requirements
• Experience preparing business requirements documents, process flows, user stories, operating models, business cases, and executive presentations
• Proven ability to partner with business stakeholders to identify problems, analyze current-state processes, define target-state capabilities, and translate business needs into actionable technology priorities
• Demonstrated ability to work across business and technology organizations to drive complex initiatives and deliver measurable business outcomes
• Experience developing product roadmaps, prioritization frameworks, investment recommendations, and value realization metrics
• Ability to operate at both strategic and detailed levels, ranging from roadmap and investment discussions to detailed process and requirements analysis
• Ability to influence stakeholders and drive consensus across business and technology teams without direct authority
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparation of executive-level presentations and materials
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI-enabled tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, Claude,and similar technologies) to improve productivity, accelerate analysis, enhance documentation quality, and support solution development
• Experience working with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Data, AI, and Program Management teams in a matrixed environment