Product Manager- Birmingham

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Product Manager to work for our client within the Banking sector. This is initially 6 - month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in Birmingham.

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to work alongside a strong engineering team in Birmingham.

The engineering capability is already there. The challenge is providing clearer product direction and prioritisation, ensuring the team is focusing its effort on the opportunities that can deliver the greatest value and turning promising ideas and tools into production-ready products.

This person will sit between the business, users and engineering team, helping answer questions such as:

• What problems and opportunities should we be focusing on?
• What is the genuine value-add of this product or tool?
• Which ideas or prototypes are worth progressing?
• What needs to happen to move them into production?
• How should opportunities be prioritised against each other?
• What does success look like and how will we measure it?

Responsibilities:

• Own and shape the product direction across a portfolio of internally developed products and tools.
• Work closely with engineers to translate technical capability into products that solve genuine business problems.
• Identify and assess new product opportunities based on user needs, business value and feasibility.
• Build and maintain clear product roadmaps and priorities.
• Challenge ideas constructively, ensuring there is a clear problem statement, user need and value case before significant engineering effort is committed.
• Assess existing prototypes and tools to determine which have the potential to move into production.
• Define the path from concept or prototype through to a scalable, production-ready product.
• Gather requirements and feedback from users, stakeholders and engineering teams.
• Define appropriate success measures and use data and feedback to inform product decisions.
• Create alignment between stakeholders and engineering around what should be built, why, and in what order.
• Help prevent engineering effort becoming disconnected from business outcomes.