VP Product & Solutions ( 12 Month FTC Maternity Leave)

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As Vice President of Product & Solutions, you will play a key role in shaping the trajectory of Liberty Blume's product and solutions portfolio to maximise customer value and accelerate business growth. Reporting directly to the Chief Commercial Officer, you will oversee the product development lifecycle, from ideation to launch, while fostering cross-functional collaboration and innovation. It is your mandate to ensure the delivery of top-tier, market-leading solutions that not only align with customer needs but also act as catalysts for overall business growth. Working closely with operational and technology teams, you will ensure offerings align with market needs, customer expectations, and Liberty Blume's strategic objectives.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for optimizing the product portfolio, leveraging technology to enhance the customer experience, and ensuring that Liberty Blume is well-positioned to meet and exceed its financial and operational objectives.

Beyond your instrumental role in product development, you will stand as a vital member of the senior leadership team. In this capacity, you will actively contribute to setting the broader direction and strategy for Liberty Blume, further solidifying your impact on the organization's future.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES Strategic Leadership

• Develop and execute a comprehensive product and solutions strategy aligned with Liberty Blume's ambition and growth objectives.
• Set and communicate the product vision and rationale, strategy, pricing and roadmap to internal stakeholders (all levels) and external partners.
• Define and communicate the product roadmap, considering market trends, competition, and customer feedback.
• Drive portfolio optimization to help drive growth and alignment with customer needs and market opportunities.
• Serve as a key point of engagement and escalation with product stakeholders across Liberty Blume, LG and our customers to demonstrate the value being delivered and manage expectations
• Establish and nurture a product community to develop talent, promote best practices, and foster collaboration across Liberty Blume.

Customer-Centric Innovation

• Cultivate a culture of innovation by encouraging bold solutions and exploring new technologies and methodologies to enhance product capabilities.
• Monitor industry developments, emerging technologies, and competitor activity, integrating insights into the product roadmap.
• Collaborate with customer support, sales, and marketing teams to gather actionable customer insights and improve future product releases.
• Continuously enhance the customer experience through initiatives such as the NPS programme and improved feedback loops, integrating actionable insights into the product development lifecycle.

Product Excellence

• Oversee the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from ideation and concept development to launch and ongoing enhancements, collaborating with cross-functional teams such as Operations, Technology, Sales, Strategy, Marketing, and our customers to ensure our products align with the Liberty Blume vision and address customer and market requirements.
• Streamline the product portfolio across business units to improve efficiency, reduce complexity, and address evolving customer needs.
• Develop and manage the product budget efficiently, allocating resources to initiatives with maximum strategic impact, and establish KPIs to track product success.
• Partner with business development and marketing teams to create impactful go-to-market strategies, including product launches, pricing, and messaging.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE Experience

• Relevant years of experience in product management, product marketing or business development roles
• Demonstrate success in developing and launching successful products
• Proven skills in strategic planning, product and global market development, market research and marketing communications.
• Go-to-market experience in a scale-up / new technology introduction context is preferred.
• Be able to demonstrate experience in gathering and transforming customer needs into an actionable product vision and requirements definition.
• Possess strong technical and business fundamentals with a passion for solving problems with disruptive new technologies.
• Ability to think critically and act strategically, drive business growth by identifying opportunities, key decision makers, priorities, and synergies.
• Established experience of working in a complex corporate environment
• Cultivate and maintain positive relationships with a wide stakeholder group
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, rapidly growing company and handle a wide variety of challenges, deadlines, and a diverse array of contacts.
• Virtual team leadership

Skills & Abilities

• Emotional intelligence - Ability to create rapport, identify needs and concerns, and offer solutions
• Data Analysis - Strong expertise in using data to synthesize information and make decisions.
• Resilience - Driving success, ability to remain resilient during development challenges and setbacks.
• Strong executive presence, highly confident and experienced when dealing internally and externally at a senior/board level
• Time management - Multiple tasks within product development journey, ensuring prioritisation of right activities
• Research skills - In-depth analytical skills to collect key info about market, competition and product demand
• Leadership - Experience leading cross-functional, dynamic teams.
• Highly literate, numerate, and commercially astute.
• Commerciality - Familiarity with building investment business cases, and financial returns.
• Curious and creative with a proactive attitude
• High ethical standards

Preferred Education / Qualifications

Degree qualified, ideally STEM background

What's in it for you?

• Competitive salary + Bonus where applicable
• 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase 5 more
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Access to our car benefit scheme
• Access to our online learning platform to continue to develop and grow your career with us
• The chance to join an innovative, fast-paced and passionate team

Who we are:

Liberty Blume, a Liberty Global company, is a rapidly growing business services provider, specialising in tech-enabled back-office solutions. Our mission is to deliver efficiency, scale and value to our customers through Business, Procurement and Financial Solutions. If you're curious, customer centric and enjoy being one step ahead, join us on our scale up journey and unlock your freedom to grow!

Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer, committed to an inclusive environment and accommodating all candidates. We're eager to hear from you, no matter your background.

About Us Our Story

We're building Tomorrow's Connections Today, bringing people together through the power of our technology.

Liberty Global is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications and an active investor in cutting-edge infrastructure, content and technology ventures.

With our investments in fibre-based and 5G networks we play a vital role in society, currently providing over 85 million fixed and mobile connections and rolling out the next generation of products and services, while readying our networks for 10 Gbps and beyond.

We're creating national champions, combining the best broadband and mobile networks under brands such as Virgin Media-02 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in The Netherlands, Telenet in Belgium, Sunrise in Switzerland, Virgin Media in Ireland and UPC in Slovakia.

Liberty Global Ventures, our global investment arm, has a portfolio of more than 75 companies and funds across content, technology and infrastructure, including strategic stakes in ITV, Univision, Plume, Lionsgate and the Formula E racing series.

Our scale enables us to transfer knowledge and expertise across our operations and investments, creating a dynamic family of brands united in the pursuit of innovation and excellence.

And we're prioritising diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace and communities, while reducing our impact on the environment. We are using technology as a force for good; for our people, our partners and the planet.

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