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About the Role
Leads the Product Group within the Technology and AI Solutions group, with accountability for incubating, building, and managing new products in alignment with business objectives. This strategic leadership role shapes the digital product strategy, ensuring the product portfolio delivers commercial and client value. The role involves building and leading a team, setting standards, and owning the end-to-end product lifecycle, with a strong emphasis on the practical use of AI.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the overall product strategy for TAS, translating business strategy into a clear, prioritised product and digital roadmap.
- Lead and develop the Product Group — product managers, business analysts and operations professionals — building a high-performing, business-aligned team.
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from incubation and business case development through to build, launch and ongoing management, ensuring new products are developed in close alignment with the business.
- Establish a structured, disciplined intake and prioritisation process for new product ideas, balancing innovation with commercial and delivery realities in partnership with the consulting business.
- Partner closely with business leadership, technology and client-facing teams to ensure products solve real business and client problems and are adopted successfully.
- Champion the practical use of AI throughout the Product Group’s ways of working and within the products themselves, identifying where AI can create differentiation and value.
- Own product performance reporting, tracking the portfolio against strategic, commercial and adoption outcomes, and making clear decisions on when to scale, pivot or retire.
- Oversee product operations and governance across the portfolio, ensuring the right processes and tooling are in place, and represent the Product Group at senior leadership level, including supporting business development where product or digital capability is relevant.
- Provides solutions to support team delivery, remove roadblocks, and escalate where required.
- Ensures outcomes match client expectations.
- Balances pace with rigour: bringing products to market without compromising quality or governance.
- Commits and delivers on what is required in the role and strives to exceed expectations.
- Works with colleagues in a co-operative and respectful manner to achieve joint aims.
- Seeks information and considers the wider firm and client implications of what we do in our own areas of responsibility.
- Communicates clearly verbally and in writing.
- Plans and organises own workload, prioritising when necessary.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading a product function or product group, ideally within a professional/consulting services or comparable environment.
- Track record of taking products from incubation through to build and scale, with accountability for commercial and adoption outcomes.
- Experience leading and developing teams of product managers, business analysts and/or operations professionals.
- Strong digital strategy experience, with the ability to translate business strategy into a coherent product and digital roadmap.
- Practical understanding of how AI can be applied across product delivery and business operations, with sound judgement on where it adds real value, and excellent stakeholder management skills at senior/leadership level across business and technology.
- Strong commercial acumen, with 10+ years of relevant experience in product management, digital strategy or related business leadership roles.
- Strong grounding in modern product management practices, including discovery, prioritisation and agile delivery.
- Working familiarity with AI-enabled tools and their practical application in product delivery, decision-making and business operations.
- Strong analytical and business-case skills, able to assess the commercial viability of new products, with comfort operating in ambiguity.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and a bias to execution.
- Uses own knowledge and experience to make sound judgements.
- Has experience building a business and developing client relationships.
- Is comfortable with change, adapts well to changing demands and maintains a positive personal style.
Skills
- Product Management
- Digital Strategy
- AI Application
- Stakeholder Management
- Commercial Acumen
- Agile Delivery
- Business Case Development
- Analytical Skills
- Communication
- Team Leadership
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Product Roadmapping
- Product Prioritisation
- Product Performance Reporting
- Product Operations
- Product Governance
Experience Level
- 10+ years of relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in business, technology or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.