Digital Product Executive

You are an innovative expert in digital platforms, who has ideally worked within Accountancy and you are looking for a role in which you can support the innovation of digital solutions to help us remain at the forefront of the professional services industry.

Job Role: Digital Product Executive

Location: Hybrid - Home/Leicester

Salary: £55,000

 

Why do we want you?

You are an innovative expert in digital platforms, who has ideally worked within Accountancy and you are looking for a role in which you can support the innovation of digital solutions to help us remain at the forefront of the professional services industry.

 

In this role you will be using your digital platform expertise to support our Product Managers in the delivery of their product roadmaps and the overall product strategy.  

 

A bit about us:

Mercia Group is one of the leading providers of training and support services to the UK accountancy profession, working with over 8000 firms nationwide.

It is a key part of Wilmington plc, an FTSE listed business that owns a unique and powerful combination of compliance solutions across Information & Data and Training & Education. The core purpose of all of Wilmington’s brands is to help our customers to the right business in the right way.

We know how critical our employees are to us achieving success, so we make sure we recruit great people to help us to maintain the trust of our customers and develop new, innovative products.

 

Main Purpose of Role

As our Digital Product Executive, you will be our go to expert when it comes to digital platforms, using your extensive knowledge to advise our Product Managers and the Product Director in developing and maintaining product roadmaps which encompass digital solutions.
 
You will work collaboratively with the product team to maximise the revenue potential of all of Mercia's products and services, ensuring a joined up digital strategy across the differing product areas, conducting competitor analysis in the digital space and feeding this into the Product Managers for consideration in their roadmaps.
 
You will also have the autonomy to identify resource (both internal and external) requirements for digital implementation and manage this as well as the cost of any digital platform implementation and maintenance.  You will project manage any digital platform implementation, supporting relationships with software partners and vendors including our website partner and our internal technology team.
 
If this sounds like the kind of digital product support role you would enjoy, why not submit an application and we will be in touch as soon as we can.

Skills and Experience Required

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...

We know it’s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role’s location by the start of their employment.

You will also need: 

  • Technical experience working with digital platforms, covering video (on-demand/live), content sharing, online training, online meetings
  • Solution driven. Experience in taking ideas from inception, through to launch on new platforms
  • Project management with the ability to research, discuss and prioritise relevant developments and/or changes in requirement.
  • Good understanding of UX & experience in organising and hosting client advisory groups (or equivalent)
  • Requirements gathering - ability to translate requirements to a solution.
  • Full training will be provided in the discipline of product management but any previous experience within this sphere would be beneficial.
  • Strong stakeholder management: the role will involve working collaboratively with Product Managers and other key internal stakeholders such as IT and Sales

 

You need to be the kind of person who…

  • Is passionate about innovation and full of ideas. Is also hands-on and action biased
  • Is comfortable with a high level of autonomy whilst working towards clear metric-based targets
  • Is a team player and motivated by working with our Technical Team to gather technical developments and client needs
  • Has excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Has strong and collaborative influencing skills and can drive impact across diverse teams
  • Is highly data-driven and able to understand the full product lifecycle
  • Has the desire and capability to truly understand our business, our clients, our products and the market, to introduce transformational change across the teams in line with Mercia’s overall strategy

 

 

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