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Product Manager

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Product Manager – Software
Nottingham - £75k - Hybrid
Are you a Product Manager who has worked with both on-premise and cloud global software products? Have you managed a team, not just a product? Can you travel?
This isn't a maintenance Product Manager role. It's a genuine strategic opportunity to take ownership of an established product, push it into new international markets, and manage the team that builds it.
You'll have full day-to-day management of a product team, full ownership of the development roadmap, and real influence over where the product goes next, not just executing someone else's plan.
What you will be doing:
- Promoting the product internationally and building relationships with customers and software partners
- Analysing market trends and customer needs to shape the strategic roadmap
- Writing detailed specs as part of an agile development process, and managing the team delivering against them
- Getting involved in account management and training reviews when needed
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What they need from you:
- Strategic and forward-looking, patient but with real fire in the belly to push things forward
- Previous experience with on-premise & cloud products
- Genuinely global product experience
- Strong communication skills, equally comfortable in the boardroom and in a technical conversation
- Confidence travelling and working independently, including internationally
The Client
An established engineering business based in the East Midlands, quietly one of the good ones. They've built and grown a specialist product that's used by businesses across the world, and rather than resting on that success, they're actively investing in where it goes next, including new products for the cloud.


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It's a stable, well-run place with genuine longevity; people tend to stay a long time once they join, but there's real ambition here too. This is a business that knows what it does well and wants to build on it, not one standing still.
Hybrid, 2 days a week in the office. £75k on offer for the right person. Accessible by public transport, but parking available.
Candidates must have full UK working rights; there is no sponsorship on offer.
Ascent People is acting as an Employment Agency in respect of this vacancy.
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