Product Manager - Media Sites Migration and Management - 18 Month FTC

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Company Description

Informa helps the world work better. We enable people and organisations to grow by connecting them with valuable information, ideas and opportunities. We do this through specialist publications, events, training and market intelligence.

Informa Connect organises major branded annual events and operates specialist digital communities that are key convening places for a particular market.

We run around 800 events each year in over 60 countries, create digital platforms based on engaging news and information content, and operate professional development programmes for individuals and businesses in Global Finance, Life Sciences and Pharma and in a number of other specialist markets.

Professionals in every specialist market have a need to meet, learn, network and be seen by peers and partners at their community's most important events.

We create powerful and imaginative environments for businesses and professionals to connect and learn, and continually enhance our events with new features and innovative content and formats.

Our customers include delegates who pay to attend events and training. We also provide event-based and digital sponsorship and marketing opportunities for businesses looking to reach and connect with specialist communities.

Job Description

Informa Connect is seeking a talented Product Manager to oversee the migration of our media sites brands portfolio to our evolving Informa-owned platform. This role is integral to ensuring a smooth transition and successful integration of both existing and new media sites as well as post migration performance management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Migration Management: Lead the migration of media sites, ensuring alignment with brand strategies, ambitions, and needs. Capture and communicate requirements to the central platform team.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with brand stakeholders to understand and translate business, user, and commercial needs into actionable product requirements.
• Gap Analysis & Negotiation: Conduct gap analysis to identify functionality gaps, and negotiate with stakeholders to facilitate migration, including the development of new functionalities.
• Representation & Facilitation: Act as the Informa Connect representative, achieving outcomes, facilitating compromises, and ensuring alignment with IC strategy and customer needs.
• Cross-functional Coordination: Collaborate with technology, UX design, and project management teams to deliver new media sites on budget and on schedule.
• Post-Migration Management: Manage the IC backlog, prioritize needs across the company, monitor performance and analytics, and work with central teams to deliver on IC media strategy.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Planning: Work closely with Connect Head of Product to develop product strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for various products and initiatives.
• Business Case Development: Contribute to the development of business cases for new products and improvements to existing products and underlying tech platforms.
• Backlog & Roadmap Management: Prioritize product features, manage the backlog, and own the product roadmap.
• Requirement Gathering: Gather business requirements for new products and improvements, helping businesses find new products and sponsors.
• Vendor Management: Identify, evaluate, and manage third-party software providers to meet current and future needs.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with technology and delivery teams to execute plans, and partner with internal and external engineering teams, design, marketing, sales, and customer success.
• Performance & Improvement: Focus on experimentation, using performance metrics and user feedback to guide continuous improvement of digital products and services.
• Documentation & Training: Create documents, training presentations, and other go-to-market items to ensure successful rollout and adoption of new products and enhancements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a product manager, preferably for a media site or information service product.
• Experience with site migration projects, content stack CMS, Jira and new site acquisition integrations is a bonus.
• Experience working in an iterative, test-and-learn culture.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and build strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Rapid ability to acquire domain expertise in market, product design and technology platforms.
• Demonstrable commercial expertise with an understanding of finance, analytics, project management and marketing.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead, coach, and develop cross-functional teams.

Additional Information

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it's time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
• A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world