Product Management Coach (Contract)
Rate: £750 per day
Duration: 6 Months (likely extension)
Locations: Edinburgh, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Chester, Birmingham, Bristol
Headcount: 6
Overview
We're seeking a highly experienced Product Management Coach to help drive the adoption of modern product management practices across a large enterprise environment.
This is a senior advisory and coaching role focused on improving product management maturity, embedding product-led ways of working, and supporting the evolution of a product operating model. You will work closely with senior product leaders, Heads of Business Agility, Product Managers and Product Owners to enhance product capability, customer-centricity and value-based decision making.
Key Responsibilities
- Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and product leadership teams on modern product management practices.
- Drive improvements in product discovery, strategy, prioritisation and outcome measurement.
- Support the adoption and evolution of product operating models and product-led ways of working.
- Assess product maturity and recommend practical improvements across teams and functions.
- Help organisations become more customer-centric and outcome-focused.
- Work with senior stakeholders to improve governance, accountability and product decision making.
- Influence leadership teams and challenge existing practices where appropriate.
- Support alignment between Product, Technology and Delivery functions.
Essential Experience
- Significant Product Management or Product Leadership experience.
- Experience coaching and developing Product Managers, Product Owners and senior product communities.
- Experience improving Product Management maturity and capability.
- Product operating model transformation experience.
- Strong product strategy, discovery and customer-centric product development expertise.
- Experience influencing senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Strong understanding of Agile, Product and Delivery operating models.
- Experience working within large, complex and regulated organisations.
Ideal Backgrounds
- Product Management Coach
- Head of Product
- Product Director
- Product Excellence Lead
- Product Practice Lead
- Product Transformation Consultant
- Product Operating Model Consultant
- Principal Product Manager with coaching and transformation experience
- Product Advisory Lead
Important
This is not a Product Owner, Delivery Lead, Project Manager or Agile Coach position. The client is specifically looking for individuals who have successfully coached product organisations, implemented product-led ways of working and driven measurable improvements in product management capability and maturity
