Product Manager Learning

**Product Manager - Learning & Development Products**

**Location**:Hybrid - Home/Birmingham**
Salary**:£45-50,000 (DoE) + bonus + benefits

**Why do we want you?**

You are an experienced **product manager**, who has extensive expertise in managing **Learning and Development** or **Higher Education** related **products**.

You excel in making **customer focused** decisions, whilst effectively engaging with **project managers** and stakeholders to develop existing and new training and qualification related products.

This is a new **product manager** role to ICA so you need to be the kind of person who enjoys the challenge of scoping out a function whilst working in a collaborative way within multi-disciplinary teams, driving results and quality and ensuringthat the products you take to market are always fit for purpose.

If this sounds like the kind of role that you would enjoy, why not read on.

**A bit about us.**

**Wilmington plc** is a company with a difference. Our core purpose is helping our customers to do the right business in the right way. Over the years we’ve grown by acquisition developing a portfolio of businesses who provide Governance, Riskand regulatory Compliance solutions to enterprise customers and professionals across the globe. **International Compliance Association (ICA)** is one of them

**ICA**is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 150,000 professionals all over the world either through theirinternationally-recognised portfolio of professional qualifications and training.

ICA product managers work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the quality of ICACS Products. In this brand new role, you will be taking ownership of a portfolio of ICACS learning products and providing advice, guidance and supportto our teams on all aspects of Product Management.

You will be heavily involved in the concept phase, validating ideas from the business. In this part of the process you will validate demand for new products through market/business analysis, engagement with clients, etc., assist the Product Sponsor withthe development of Fact Sheet / Business Case and work with the Project Team to develop Project Initiation Document (PID), including clear definition of project outcomes and milestones.

In the project stage, you will liaise with our fantastic SMEs and conduct (or commission) analysis to determine new product requirements. These might include, for example; Competence Framework, KSA analysis, Syllabus, Learning objectives, Assessment strategy.Once the analysis is complete, you will conduct/commission a gap analysis against existing ICA product base to determine additional design activity and work closely and collaboratively with Design function to ensure development of the products is in accordancewith project outcomes and milestones.

You will also ensure the product is reviewed and revised in accordance with product review cycle (minimum every 2 years) and conduct regular analysis to assess product viability, contribution and position in life-cycle.

**We always support colleagues to develop their skills but to be successful in this job you really do need to already be able to tick most of these boxes...**

You will also need;
- Experience in a product manager role within learning and development or higher education related products
- To be able to demonstrate project management and stakeholder engagement skills
- To be customer orientated
- To be an effective decision maker
- Communication skills as well as experience of working collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams
- To be able to deliver at pace, drive for results and ensure quality

**You need to be the kind of person who**
- Is passionate about supervising the entire product lifecycle, from concept to termination.
- Has a balance of soft and hard skills, such as technical awareness and management ability.
- Loves to learn - both knowledge and skills
- Is a creative question-asker and a solution-finder
- Is able to work in a fast paced, fun and progressive environment
- Enjoys a challenge - we work hard, and it can be a steep learning curve