Product Manager - NEC Housing

Come join us and make a difference in the world!

*** Please note - Hybrid or remote subject to location ***

Join us on an exciting journey as a Product Manager for NEC Housing!

You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering innovative products for the Social Housing sector covering areas such as Rents, Service Charges, the Allocations process, along with our Housing Mobile App.

We’re looking for passionate individuals to join a dynamic team that’s focused on exceeding customer expectations, maximising intellectual property, and driving transformation across the sector.

From market assessment through to requirements decomposition, build support, and final test verification, you’ll ensure the NEC Housing platform empowers customers to meet the challenges they face.

• Conduct market research to understand legislative, regulatory, competitive, and economic trends, as well as evolving market drivers.
• Become the subject matter expert in your product area, providing guidance to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with customers through co-design workshops, user groups, and meetings to capture insights and shape requirements.
• Define customer business needs and objectives to ensure NEC Housing products meet or exceed expectations.
• Create requirements, user stories, and wireframes for new developments, working closely with development and QA teams to deliver solutions that achieve customer outcomes.
• Partner with Technical Authors to produce and review product documentation.
• Build business cases including market uptake, pricing, and margin analysis.
• Identify and manage any third-party requirements, liaising with suppliers and integrators as needed.
• Define and maintain the roadmap for your product area(s).
• Support Pre-Sales and Sales teams with bid responses, proposals, and quotations.
• Deliver presentations to internal and external audiences.
• Contribute to product launch activities.

This is your opportunity to shape NEC Housing products and guide customers toward best practices. Future growth and progression within the Product Team or wider business await the successful candidate.

• Experience in UK Social Housing, either as a customer or software solution provider.
• Strong knowledge of project life cycle, methodologies, and delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Experience defining product enhancements, UI/UX design, and Agile new product development.
• Experience with housing management systems or related software.
• Experience working with Housing system modules Rents, Service Charges, Allocations, or Mobile alternatives.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Full, valid UK/EC driving licence for travel.
• Proven ability to build relationships and understand client perspectives.
• Effective time management and resource allocation.
• Experience in end-to-end product life cycle management.
• Experience designing digital solutions for the social housing sector, including mobile apps and web platforms.
• Proficiency in tools such as Figma and JIRA.
• Working knowledge of NEC Housing.

We pride ourselves in offering an excellent benefits package, including an above average pension scheme. When you join the team at NEC Software Solutions, you are provided with the following:

• Private Medical Cover funded by NEC for Employees (with the option to add family members at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday with the option to buy/sell
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover funded by NEC (with the option to increase cover at an additional cost)
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributionsup to a maximum of 8.5%
• A selection of flexible benefits to suit your individual needs

Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work and travel…