Head of Product

Head of Product  
Permanent  
Full time (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours 
Location: Split between home and our London Office  
Salary Range: £80,500-£88,500 
 
 
About us: 
At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. 

About the role:

As a Head of Product, you will be responsible for a portfolio of Macmillan’s technology products, platforms and services. You’ll lead a team of product and delivery experts, championing a product mindset across Macmillan and ensuring that value, viability, usability and feasibility are considered when making decisions about how we identify, hypothesise, test and solve problems with technology and data. You’ll join the Technology Leadership Team and jointly lead the Product community of practice, sharing knowledge and expertise, building capabilities and ways of working amongst product teams. 

Here's what you’ll be getting up to: 

• Lead and line manage a team of product and delivery experts 
• Develop a product vision and prioritised roadmap for your area that aligns to our organisational goals. 
• Work alongside the Technology Leadership Team to further embed multidisciplinary teams to deliver against our priorities. 
• Ensure that our multidisciplinary teams put users first and champion a data-driven and evidence-based approach. 
• Take responsibility for a complex portfolio of product and platforms at varying stages of the product lifecycle. 

About you: 

• You’ll have experience of leading a high-performing product function to deliver at pace within a transforming organisation. 
• You've been accountable for a complex and interdependent product portfolio and give examples of where you’ve delivered business outcomes as well as improved user experiences, as well as some of the technical challenges you’ve faced along the way. 
• You’ll be curious and collaborative, able to listen as well as influence and persuade – comfortable respectfully asking difficult questions and working in partnership with teams across Macmillan to achieve the best outcomes.  
• You’ll be able to demonstrable practical and pragmatic application of agile and lean methodologies to improve ways of working, reduce waste and learn fast.  

Recruitment Process 
Application deadline: 10th July
First interview dates: w/c 29th July

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. 

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.  

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies. 

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.