About the Role
Join our Digital Advisory team on a 9-month contract as a Product Operations Manager. You will be central to achieving long-term goals of audience growth, digital innovation, and brand development, helping transition the organization to a mature, product-led operating model. This role influences how teams work, make decisions, and deliver value at scale by establishing operational foundations for Product Managers.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Location
- London
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 9 month contract
Benefits
- 28 days holiday
- Bank holidays
- 2 volunteer days
- Access to Bauer Academy (internal training provider)
- Enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay
- Opportunity for flexible working
About the Company
- Bauer Media Group is a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions across Europe, with offerings in print, online publishing, audio broadcasting, and entertainment.
- They are one of Europe’s largest Publishers, selling over 500 million copies annually, and operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries.
- As a 5th generation family-owned company, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term with a consumer-first mindset.
- Their workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
Equal Opportunity
- International employer and equal opportunities are important.
- Welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of religion, gender, skin color, disability.
- Committed to ensuring the recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all.
- If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need reasonable adjustments, please let us know.
