Product Development Manager
Company
Location
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
6/3/2025
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Description
Job Description
Let’s talk numbers. When it comes to UK retail, it’s hard to find a bigger name. We sell thousands of items an hour and are expanding our e-commerce business by the second. For anyone in Tech, this is the place to learn. To grow. And to thrive.
Our websites and apps have grown steadily over the past 10 years to become one of the largest online retail platforms in the UK. We currently sell to 70 international markets, offering our 6 million active customers a personalised shopping experience and the ability to purchase from a wide range of products using multiple delivery methods and payment types.
Our Mainframe team is at the heart of our Next Technology, supporting the operations and constant change that comes with running the show here across multiple sites, countries, languages and currencies! The NextPay team specifically handles the maintenance, progression, and improvements of our in-house credit offering.
The role
Project management. Team management. Stakeholder management. These are three core areas of your role as a Product Development Manager. Get these right and you’ll be able to successfully ensure our teams run smoothly, providing business continuity and supporting critical business events. As a PDM, you manage the team and manage stakeholder expectations. As part of the department leadership team, you’ll also contribute strategic insights and operational improvements that boost team success – plus morale, profile and reputation. This role is focused on ensuring FCA compliance and effective collaboration with business stakeholders.
You’ll oversee project delivery in a highly collaborative and agile framework, specifically driving agile ways of working through a mainframe based team. You will provide ongoing communication to ensure that progress is transparent and aligned to the quality and standards expected by the stakeholders and IT governance.
Day-to-day, your responsibilities will include:
So if you’ve got solid project management credentials gained in a technical environment, great team management skills, and experience handling stakeholder needs, requests and relationships, this is the place for you – and your career.
About Us
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
About The Team
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email [email protected] (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
Let’s talk numbers. When it comes to UK retail, it’s hard to find a bigger name. We sell thousands of items an hour and are expanding our e-commerce business by the second. For anyone in Tech, this is the place to learn. To grow. And to thrive.
Our websites and apps have grown steadily over the past 10 years to become one of the largest online retail platforms in the UK. We currently sell to 70 international markets, offering our 6 million active customers a personalised shopping experience and the ability to purchase from a wide range of products using multiple delivery methods and payment types.
Our Mainframe team is at the heart of our Next Technology, supporting the operations and constant change that comes with running the show here across multiple sites, countries, languages and currencies! The NextPay team specifically handles the maintenance, progression, and improvements of our in-house credit offering.
The role
Project management. Team management. Stakeholder management. These are three core areas of your role as a Product Development Manager. Get these right and you’ll be able to successfully ensure our teams run smoothly, providing business continuity and supporting critical business events. As a PDM, you manage the team and manage stakeholder expectations. As part of the department leadership team, you’ll also contribute strategic insights and operational improvements that boost team success – plus morale, profile and reputation. This role is focused on ensuring FCA compliance and effective collaboration with business stakeholders.
You’ll oversee project delivery in a highly collaborative and agile framework, specifically driving agile ways of working through a mainframe based team. You will provide ongoing communication to ensure that progress is transparent and aligned to the quality and standards expected by the stakeholders and IT governance.
Day-to-day, your responsibilities will include:
- Line managing and coaching a squad of developers, a business analyst and a scrum master.
- Managing a portfolio of development projects focused on the maintenance, progression, and improvements of our in-house credit offering.
- Working closely with our key business stakeholders in Credit & Risk, the Contact Center, and eCommerce to identify and validate business requirements as well as strategic business drivers.
- Collaborating effectively with cross-functional tech teams within Tech, such as Online Ordering, eCommerce and Payments.
- Budget control.
- Communicating project status, risks and issues.
- Ensuring we remain FCA compliant and understanding the role of compliance within the wider teams.
- Ideally, exploring how AI can enhance developer workflows and how that could be brought into business as usual for the development teams.
- Solid project management credentials gained in a technical environment, with experience managing medium to large projects.
- Experience handling stakeholder needs, requests and relationships.
- Strong leadership skills, with previous team management experience.
- A driver of agile methodologies within a mainframe environment. Exposure to Agile practices specifically Scrum and Kanban is beneficial.
- FCA compliance knowledge and experience. Understanding the role of compliance is equally as important.
- Experience working with third-party integrations would be really beneficial.
- Ideally, some understanding of how AI can enhance workflows and demonstrable experience implementing it.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Experience or knowledge of working in a Mainframe Technical environment would be beneficial. While some mainframe development knowledge (like COBOL and DB2) would be desirable, it is not a strict necessity for the role.
So if you’ve got solid project management credentials gained in a technical environment, great team management skills, and experience handling stakeholder needs, requests and relationships, this is the place for you – and your career.
About Us
You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!
About The Team
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- Company performance based bonus
- Sharesave scheme
- On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Early VIP access to sale stock
- Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
- Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
- Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
- Free on-site parking
- Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
- Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email [email protected] (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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