Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of the next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

As a Senior Director, Product Management Consumer Products at Publicis Sapient, you will act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall business solution, vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients within the Consumer Products industry undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

Your Impact:
• Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and enterprise architects, to
frame business goals and value streams from which we can shape solution
propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
• Develop large solution vision that aligns with the product vision, strategy, and industry
compliance, by keeping the customer at the center of everything we do while using design thinking tools
• Represent the client while facilitating solution workshops with cross functional leaders where you identify new solutions, organization business needs, and solution options
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
• Translate solution vision into a product vision/roadmap containing well-defined,
prioritized features that will realize the solution and value
• Validate and present the business case to the C – level executives and lead business
reviews to ensure the team prioritizes the right features
• Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding and representing the customer needs
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
• Masterfully apply Lean Agile practices and frameworks
• Collaborate with product managers, other solution managers, and cross-functional  capability managers to ensure all product teams, to ensure alignment towards the same program increment (PI) objectives
• Collaborate with enterprise architects to envision and prioritize capability enablers
• Represent industry best practice and market trends to assist the client in maintaining  competitive advantage
• Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop  influence without authority
• Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and  services

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience in B2C and B2B consumer goods, either in consulting or in-house with leading brands
• Proven success creating and launching large digital products and solutions - from vision and strategy to delivery
• Deep understanding of Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles, with experience leading Program Increment (PI) cycles
• Strong experience working with multi-disciplinary teams on customer-focused products and services, including stakeholder management
• Commercially minded - able to define financials, ROI, KPIs, and forecasts to guide decisions
• Passionate about innovation, continuous improvement, and inspiring teams to embrace change

What Sets You Apart

• Deep insight into consumer goods trends, business models, and success factors
• Relevant product or program management certifications (e.g. SAFe, PMP, IPMA)

A Tip from the Hiring Manager
A successful Senior Director, Product Management at Publicis Sapient combines leadership skills,
rooted in customer centricity, with tactical product management skills to drive the client and
team in releasing parallel multiple program increments every 10-12 weeks (or applicable
frequency at client's organization)

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion

Our hybrid work policy requires employees to be present in the office or at client sites for a minimum of 3 days per week (4 days for VP+). We trust our employees to determine what a reasonable commute is for their individual circumstances. Whilst we embrace flexibility, it s essential that this commute allows you to comfortably fulfil the in-office/client site expectations of the policy. We encourage you to consider your personal circumstances and commute when evaluating if this work arrangement is suitable

Publicis Sapient UK is a disability confident employer and is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and accessible work environment. We encourage individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions to apply for this position and we will provide adjustments where possible throughout the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments at any point on the process, please get in touch as soon as possible by emailing hiringuk@publicissapient.com. Publicis Sapient UK will then work with you explore and implement adjustments as and where these are possible. If you have any questions regarding adjustments, please email us: hiringuk@publicissapient.com