Director of Product

Bauer Media Group Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - GBP 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A major media corporation is seeking a Director of Product B2B to drive the vision and strategy for software products. This senior role involves managing product roadmaps, leading cross-functional teams, and ensuring a customer-driven approach. The ideal candidate will have extensive product development experience and strong leadership skills, with a focus on delivering value across multiple international markets. This position offers a hybrid working model based in Manchester.

Benefits

28 days holiday

Internal training opportunities

Enhanced parental leave benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Ability to manage multiple projects effectively under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in complex technical environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the multi-year product roadmap for audio business systems.
• Define product positioning and competitive differentiation.
• Lead cross-functional teams to launch audio products.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Stakeholder management

Resilience

Job description

Overview

Bauer Media Audio is Europe’s largest commercial audio broadcaster. We are on a journey to evolve the world of audio and continue to deliver for our audiences across Broadcast and Digital by sustained innovation across our entire product and technology estate.

The Director of Product B2B (m/f/d) is a senior leadership role responsible for driving the vision, strategy and implementation of high-quality software products that deliver Bauer Media Audio internal needs. Alongside setting the Product strategy, they will foster a culture of excellence, working closely with other peers in Technology and the wider business. This is a key role in the BMA Technology organisation, focusing on delivering value to BMA across nine international markets, ensuring great collaboration and cooperation with market teams.

It requires the individual to have solid product development experience in complex environments, leading large-scale teams & projects, inspiring and motivating them and stakeholders alike.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop and own the multi-year product roadmap for the audio business systems portfolio, aligned with company strategy and market opportunity.
• Identify emerging trends in professional audio, signal processing, DSP, AV-over-IP, conferencing, and cloud-enabled systems.
• Define product positioning, value propositions, and competitive differentiation.
• Lead cross-functional teams to bring new business-focused audio products from concept to launch.
• Prioritize features, technical requirements, and user experience improvements based on customer research, data insights, and market dynamics.
• Oversee product lifecycle management and strategies for continuous improvement.

Technical & Engineering Collaboration

• Partner closely with engineering leadership to ensure system architecture, technical feasibility, and development plans are in place and future proof.
• Facilitate trade-off decisions between cost, performance, and time-to-market.
• Ensure robust testing processes and product quality standards across hardware and software.
• Work with commercial/sales and other teams to develop a product vision & strategy that delivers on business needs.
• Represent the company at industry events, technology forums, and partner meetings.
• Monitor performance metrics, forecast demand, and drive operational efficiency.
• Lead business cases for new opportunities, including ROI modelling.

Leadership & Team Development

• Mentor and develop product managers and business analysts in the team.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and customer-first thinking.
• Enhance processes for product planning, documentation, and agile development.

Main Objectives

• Delivering Value: Ensure the teams deliver customer and market-driven solutions that align with overall business objectives.
• Operational Excellence: Oversee product operational performance, ensuring that products and systems are robust, scalable, and secure.
• Team Growth & Development: Ensure the team remains motivated, well-supported, and continuously improving in terms of technical and personal development.

Job Requirements

Personal skills:

• Organisation & Prioritisation: Ability to manage multiple projects and demands, ensuring that business and market needs are met in a timely manner.
• Clear Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly in managing high-pressure situations like incident escalations.
• Resilience & Adaptability: Ability to maintain calm and clarity under pressure, demonstrating strong decision-making and problem-solving skills in complex technical environments.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, with a technical background that allows for effective management of complex back-end systems.
• High emotional intelligence, with a focus on empathy-driven communication and conflict resolution.
• Adaptable and decisive, capable of handling shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent organisational skills, able to manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently.
• Collaboration & Empathy: Strong interpersonal skills, enabling effective collaboration with internal teams and external stakeholders. A focus on transparent and empathetic communication.
• Conflict Resolution: Ability to mediate disputes within the team and ensure conflicts are resolved constructively.
• Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to interact and influence product and technology teams, aligning technical work with business objectives.

Location

Manchester, UK-wide (hybrid)

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. But not only that. 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]

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Date Job Posting Last Updated: 20 Jan 2026