Product Management Coach

6 Month Contract (with strong potential to extend)

Hybrid Working – Edinburgh, Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Chester, Birmingham or Bristol

An exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced Product Management Coaches to join a major transformation programme within a leading organisation in the financial services sector.

This is a high-impact role where you'll work directly with senior product leaders and executive stakeholders to transform product management capability across a large, complex enterprise. You'll play a key role in embedding modern product thinking, coaching teams, and helping shape a mature, customer-centric product operating model.

We're looking for individuals who have successfully led product organisations and coached teams through large-scale product management transformations—not just delivered products, but improved the way organisations build and manage them.

As a Product Management Coach, you'll partner with senior leaders to strengthen product management practices, improve organisational maturity, and embed modern product-led ways of working across multiple business areas.

You’ll be responsible for coaching product leaders, influencing strategic decision-making, and helping teams deliver greater customer and commercial value through best-in-class product management.

• Coach Product Managers, Product Owners and leadership teams on modern product management practices.
• Drive improvements across product discovery, strategy, prioritisation, road-mapping and outcome measurement.
• Support organisations in adopting customer-centric, value-driven product thinking.
• Help clarify the roles and responsibilities between Product Managers and Product Owners.
• Identify capability gaps and implement practical coaching interventions to improve product maturity.
• Influence senior stakeholders to strengthen product governance, prioritisation and decision making.
• Champion customer insight, evidence-based decision making and measurable business outcomes.
• Support product operating model transformation across complex enterprise environments.
  
  Work closely with delivery and business agility leaders to balance product excellence with effective execution.

We’re particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Extensive experience leading Product Management functions or large product organisations.
• Proven success coaching and mentoring senior product leaders, Product Managers and Product Owners.
• Experience transforming organisations to mature product management practices and operating models.
• Strong expertise across product discovery, customer research, product strategy, prioritisation and road‑map development.
• Experience influencing executive and C-level stakeholders.
• A strong understanding of product-led organisations, Agile delivery and modern product operating models.
• The ability to drive behavioural and cultural change across large organisations.
• Experience operating within complex, regulated environments such as financial services, insurance or similar industries.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation and coaching skills with the credibility to challenge and influence at all levels.