Online Product & Technology Manager

Bauer Media Group Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - GBP 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media group is seeking an Online Product & Technology Manager to drive the execution of online platforms and technology roadmaps. This role includes managing the product backlog, ensuring platform stability, and working with various departments for optimal customer engagement. Ideal candidates will have experience in digital product management and a strong understanding of online platforms. The position offers a hybrid working model and numerous benefits, including generous vacation days and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

28 days holiday

Access to internal training

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working

Qualifications

• Proven experience in digital product management or technology delivery.
• Strong understanding of backend systems and UX/UI best practice.
• Experience managing backlogs and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the online product backlog.
• Translate strategic priorities into executable product requirements.
• Lead UX experimentation and testing to improve customer journeys.

Skills

Digital product management

Understanding of online platforms

Experience with third-party technology providers

Agile or iterative environment

Analytical mindset

Job description

We are a small group of passionate and results-driven professionals and work hard to achieve our goals. The consumer competition team is dedicated to creating, managing, and enhancing engagement through our competitions, that give our audiences the chance to win life changing prizes. This team create innovative competitions that captivate audiences, driving participation through strategic marketing efforts across multiple platforms including radio, digital, and social media.

The Difference you will make

As The Online Product & Technology Manager you will be responsible for the executional delivery of the online platform, product backlog and technology roadmap for makemeawinner.co.uk. Using a hands-on and specialist approach you will, focus on ensuring the platform and supporting systems are stable, optimised and continuously improved.

Working under the direction of the Head of Online, you will act as the key link between the business, IT and external product and technology partners.

Your role

• Own and manage the online product backlog, ensuring work is aligned to business objectives.
• Translate strategic priorities from the Head of Online into executable product and technical requirements.
• Act as the day-to-day product and technology owner for the online platform.
• Own the roadmap for the SMS provider platform, which powers the SMS entry point and backend campaign setup.
• Work with IT and external product partners on deployments, releases, fixes and integrations.
• Lead UX experimentation and testing to improve customer journeys, reduce friction and increase conversion.
• Monitor platform, UX and operational performance metrics.
• Work collaboratively with Performance Marketing, Operations, Insights and Legal to ensure solutions are customer-focused, compliant and operationally sound.

The Skills you will bring

• Proven experience in digital product management or technology delivery.
• Strong understanding of online platforms, backend systems and UX/UI best practice.
• Experience working with third-party technology providers.
• Experience managing backlogs, requirements and delivery in an agile or iterative environment.
• Analytical mindset with experience using data to inform decisions.

Working Pattern/Location

This is a full-time role, Monday – Friday, 37.5 hours a week. We also support a hybrid work model that balances working from home and our office in Manchester (Castle Quay).

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That"s why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing [e-mail]

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

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