Bauer Media Group
Product Operations Manager
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Our Team: How We Enrich Everyday Life
You will be joining our Digital Advisory on a 9 month contract; a team central to achieving long-term goals of audience growth, digital innovation, and brand development.
As part of a collaborative and evolving product community, you'll play a key role in helping the organisation continue its transition from project-based delivery to a mature, product-led operating model. This is an opportunity to influence how teams work, make decisions and deliver value at scale.
The Difference You Will Make
This is a highly visible contract role where you'll help turn our product operating model from a framework into everyday reality. You'll work across teams to establish the operational foundations that allow Product Managers to focus on customer discovery, product strategy and value delivery rather than delivery administration and project management.
You'll bring structure where it's needed, improve consistency across teams, and help create the governance, processes and rhythms that support effective product management. Through your work, you'll enable better alignment, improve transparency across portfolios, and drive adoption of product-led practices that create value for both our customers and the business.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys solving organisational challenges, influencing change and building practical solutions that make teams more effective.
Your Role
As Product Operations Manager, you will act as the operational engine for the product function, partnering with product leaders and cross-functional teams to implement and continuously improve product operating practices. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Embedding the product operating Model across product teams and portfolios.
- Designing, documenting and improving product operations processes, standards and ways of working.
- Creating playbooks, templates, guidance and tools that drive consistency and adoption.
- Establishing and facilitating governance forums, planning cadences and decision-making practices.
- Facilitating retrospectives, reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Working across Product, Engineering, Delivery and business teams to embed product-led behaviours and best practices.
- Supporting organisational change and helping teams adopt more effective product operating approaches.
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The Skills You Will Bring
- Experience implementing or improving product operations practices within a product-led or digitally transforming organisation.
- Strong process design, governance and operational management skills.
- Experience developing playbooks, standards, documentation and operating frameworks.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of an organisation.
- Strong facilitation skills and experience running planning, governance or decision-making forums.
- Ability to work comfortably in ambiguous environments and bring clarity to complex challenges.
- A pragmatic, outcome-focused approach with a strong focus on continuous improvement.
- Experience supporting Product Managers and cross-functional teams to adopt consistent ways of working.
Working Pattern/Location
This is a full time 9m contract position with hybrid working from our London office.
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About Bauer Media Group
We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people’s everyday lives.
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What’s in it for you
- You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
- Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
- We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
- You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
- And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here.
We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk.
We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.
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