Senior Product Manager - Internal Business Systems

Senior Product Manager – Internal Business Systems (Contract)

Manchester (Hybrid – 2 days/week) | Internal Platforms & Systems | Legacy Transformation

We're looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to join a major platform transformation programme, replacing a 20+ year-old legacy system used to plan, schedule and manage advertising operations.

Working with two engineering squads, you'll own a core product value stream, partnering closely with Engineering and Service Design to simplify complex operational workflows, prioritise effectively and deliver measurable improvements for internal users.

This is not a consumer product or growth role. It's an opportunity to modernise a business-critical internal platform used by operational teams every day.

What you'll be doing

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• Own discovery, prioritisation and delivery for a key product value stream.
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• Map and improve complex operational workflows.
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• Work closely with two engineering squads to deliver incremental improvements.
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• Balance competing priorities across Product, Engineering and business stakeholders.
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• Drive adoption and improve efficiency through user-centred product decisions.
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Essential experience

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• Proven experience as a Product Manager or Senior Product Manager.
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• Must have delivered at least one complex internal, back-office or operational platform (e.g. planning, scheduling, workflow, ERP, CRM or finance systems).
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• Experience building B2B or enterprise products rather than predominantly consumer-facing apps.
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• Strong backlog management and prioritisation skills.
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• Excellent stakeholder management across technical and business teams.
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• Comfortable working with engineering teams building modern cloud-native or microservices-based platforms.
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Desirable

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• Experience replacing or modernising legacy systems.
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• Planning, scheduling or workflow platform experience.
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• Media, advertising or publishing experience (not essential).
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This role is unlikely to be the right fit if your experience is mainly in:

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• Consumer mobile apps or e-commerce.
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• Growth, acquisition or marketing products.
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• Product roles without ownership of complex internal platforms.
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If you enjoy solving operational problems, working closely with engineering and delivering products that improve how people work every day, we'd love to hear from you.