Senior Digital Product Development Manager

Unleash Your Innovation Potential: Senior Digital Product Development Manager Opportunity

Are you a visionary product leader eager to make a significant impact on a company's transformation journey? This Senior Digital Product Development Manager role presents a compelling opportunity to shape the future of digital offerings, drive innovation, and redefine market positioning. If you're passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and customer needs, this position offers a dynamic platform for career growth and influence.

What's in it for you?

• Strategic Influence: Play a pivotal role in shaping the organization's transformation agenda, driving innovation-centric thinking, and redefining market approaches for new propositions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with marketing and technology teams to explore future tech stacks, execute an innovation roadmap, and ensure new ideas resonate deeply with customers.
• Market Impact: Drive new business opportunities and leverage your commercial acumen to ensure new products not only meet customer needs but also secure a competitive edge in the market.
• Innovation at the Core: Your primary responsibility will be to manage and drive the innovation strategy, directly contributing to the bank's long-term success and competitive positioning.
• Comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management: From market research and concept development to technical evaluation, launch planning, and performance monitoring, you'll own the end-to-end journey of new digital products.
• Career Development: The role offers significant opportunities for strategic thinking, risk management, and leadership, whether as an individual contributor or a people leader. You'll have the chance to guide technical direction, lead complex projects, and mentor emerging talent.
• Location Flexibility: This role can be based in either London or Northampton, offering a choice to suit your geographical preferences.

Key Considerations for Aspiring Candidates:

To thrive in this role, candidates should possess a strong foundation in the following areas:

• New Product Development Expertise: Proven experience in bringing new products from ideation to market launch.
• Business Acumen & Opportunity Generation: A track record of identifying and driving new business opportunities, coupled with sharp commercial insight.
• Technology Collaboration: The ability to work effectively with technology teams, understanding their capabilities and fostering productive partnerships.
• Market Dynamics Mastery: Deep industry awareness and a solid understanding of market trends and competitive landscapes are crucial.
• Payment Solutions Experience (Highly Valued): Hands-on experience in developing and implementing payment solutions will be a significant advantage.
• Digital Ecosystem & Transformation: Experience within large-scale digital transformations and complex ecosystems will be highly beneficial.

Your Impact and Growth:

This role demands a strategic thinker with a strong command of business acumen, risk and controls, and digital transformation. You'll be expected to contribute to or set strategy, define requirements, and recommend changes that align with organizational goals. Whether you're an individual contributor acting as a subject matter expert and technical guide, or a people leader focused on team development and strategic planning, your influence will be substantial. You will be instrumental in advising key stakeholders, managing risks, and developing innovative solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.

Demonstrating the Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and the Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive) will be integral to your success in this role, fostering an environment where colleagues can thrive and deliver exceptional results.