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Product Manager (Investment Platform)
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Product Manager (Investment Platform)
About the role
The Investment Platforms team bridges the gap between Investments and Technology, partnering closely with the Investment Directorate and Investment Operations teams to deliver technology change and operate platform systems that underpin our Investment Proposition. They manage a diverse and specialist technology landscape, including discrete applications, platform technologies, underlying data stores, market data solutions, and 3rd party managed services. The team works with the broader technology community to ensure Investment systems are scalable, secure, and aligned with business priorities, enabling innovation and operational excellence across the investment lifecycle.
As Product Manager (Investment Platform), you will own the roadmap and delivery of a key product within our Investment Platform. Working closely with business stakeholders and technology teams, you will be responsible for translating investment management needs into prioritised technology and data solutions, driving enhancements across portfolio and risk analytics, research management, performance reporting and liquidity tooling.
You will lead the delivery of strategic initiatives and platform improvements while ensuring the ongoing stability, performance and resilience of the platform. Acting as a vital link between business and technology, you will help shape future investment capabilities, improve operational efficiency and deliver measurable value to our investment teams.
What you'll be doing
- Owning and prioritising the Investment Management product backlog within SJP’s Investment Platform; ensuring it reflects the needs of Investment Analyst, Risk, Performance and Research teams, as well as broader CIO office & Value Stream stakeholders.
- Acting as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and/or project managers and the delivery team, managing expectations and providing regular updates on delivery progress and roadmap changes.
- Owning the delivery roadmap, visualising the journey to the desired target state, proposing optimal sequencing, and adjusting based on stakeholder needs and other imposed constraints.
- Ensuring business requirements are translated into well-defined user stories which can be easily actioned by engineering team(s).
- Owning delivery outcomes for the Investment Management product area, ensuring initiatives are delivered against agreed scope, timelines and business objectives.
- Establishing clear success measures and KPIs for platform initiatives and monitor delivery against expected outcomes.
- Ensuring the feature team’s resourcing satisfies short- and long-term delivery needs, escalating gaps or constraints to Governance & Oversight roles where required.
- Managing delivery risks, dependencies and constraints across teams and suppliers, ensuring issues are identified and addressed early.
- Working closely with the Scrum Master to ensure backlog priorities, roadmap commitments and delivery plans remain aligned.
- Providing regular reporting on roadmap progress, strategic initiatives, risks, dependencies and realised business value to senior stakeholders.
- Balancing short-term delivery priorities against the platform's longer-term architecture and technical debt considerations, working closely with the Investment Architect and Solution Analysts.
- Supporting the team's engagement with internal tech teams & third-parties, where relevant to Investment Platform delivery.
- Communicating delivery strategy, progress, and roadmap changes for Investment Platform to colleagues at all levels, and to senior stakeholders and Governance & Oversight roles (Platform Owner, Vendor Manager, Enterprise Architect).
- Verifying that delivery practices adhere to regulatory expectations, Group policies, and Investment Platform standards & ways of working.
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About you
We're looking for an experienced Product Manager who can bridge the gap between investment stakeholders and technology delivery. Whilst a technology professional, you'll bring a strong background in Asset or Investment Management, be comfortable managing competing priorities and delivery roadmaps, and have the ability to turn complex business problems into successful technology outcomes. Strong stakeholder management skills, industry specialism, and a collaborative approach will be key to success in this role.
Essential Criteria
- Experience working as a Product Manager, Product Owner, Delivery Manager or in a similar technology delivery role.
- Strong Asset Management or Investment Management industry experience.
- Proven experience in change execution, prioritising requirements, co-ordinating engineering and testing to deliver technology outcomes.
- Experience in prioritising delivery of platform enhancements/evolutions against maintenance and incident resolution activities to prevent platform obsolescence.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills; with the ability to communicate, build relationships and influence across both business and technology functions natively.
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Desirable Criteria
- Experience managing multiple concurrent workstreams, projects or platform initiatives.
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments (Scrum, Kanban or SAFe).
- Familiarity with common investment technology patterns and 3rd party investment technology products eg Bloomberg, FactSet, Aladdin, Simcorp etc.
- Understanding of common investment data domains and sources.
What's in it for you
Whatever stage of life you're in, our benefits are designed to provide the support, flexibility, and peace of mind you need to thrive both at work and beyond.
In addition to our discretionary annual bonus scheme, which reflects both individual and company performance, you'll benefit from a market-leading benefits package tailored to support your wellbeing, financial security, and family life.
Our benefits include:
- 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
- Private Medical Insurance – company-funded cover for you and your immediate family
- Generous Pension Scheme – a non-contributory employer contribution of 10%, increasing with length of service up to 15%, plus the opportunity to increase this through salary sacrifice
- Enhanced Parental Leave – up to 26 weeks' full pay to support growing families.
- Protection Benefits – company-funded critical illness cover, income protection, and life assurance
- EV salary sacrifice scheme through Tusker
Reasonable Adjustments We're an equal opportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive for all, if you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stage please let us know by emailing us at careers@sjp.co.uk
Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.
What's next
If you're excited about this role and believe you have the skills and experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit an application by clicking ‘apply’ below and our team will be in touch.
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