Product Manager for Sustainability Data

Product Manager for Sustainability Data
6 Months
Remote/Hybrid (Some travel required for meetings)
Inside IR35

My client, a top global company, is currently looking to recruit a Product Manager for Sustainability Data to join their team on a contract basis. Please note that if successful, you will need to set up via an Umbrella Company/PAYE. Our client is looking for a Product Manager for Sustainability Data to lead squads and plan out a roadmap to deliver 2025 Sustainability Data Foundations to support the delivery of reporting requirements.

Skill Requirements:

• Data Product Management for Sustainability
• Stakeholder engagement and management
• Data Platforms/Foundations technical experience
• Experience in the Sustainability domain desirable, but not essential

Essential Skills for the Product Manager for Sustainability Data:

• Experience as Data Product Manager/Owner or similar roles in a product-led environment within R&D, QSC, Customer, Consumer, Finance, HR, etc.
• Managed a product backlog that iteratively delivers features to the business in order of highest business priority/value in a Data Team or similar. Hands-on technical experience advantageous (i.e., Data Analytics, Data Modelling, Data Engineering, Cloud Platforms, BI)
• Knowledge of technology and governance processes
• Demonstrated the ability to act as a strategic partner with senior leaders (e.g., Country or Divisional leads) from the dedicated areas of the business, understanding their priorities and identifying the needs/value for data products
• Experience in value attribution and articulation against initiatives and use cases
• Experience working within a Data Office and/or Data Platforms business area
• Experience working and delivering through an agile methodology to deliver rapid value to business stakeholders & prioritising a product backlog based on various inputs, including business need, architectural complexity, skills availability
• Data Analytics skills to support and enable technical teams
• Product management skills, including interpersonal skills, research, communications (especially listening), demonstrated influence, and the ability to have crucial and difficult conversations

Preferred Skills for the Product Manager for Sustainability Data:

• A knowledge of the FMCG or Sustainability industries and external perspective on challenges and innovation opportunities
• Significant experience successfully delivering complex projects to a high standard and within short timeframes. Desirable recent examples of delivery of data or technology products/projects
• Desirable experience working with key product artefacts to support user research, articulate and assess value including User Personas, User Journeys, Leading and Lagging Metrics, and calculating the Cost of Delay