Senior Product Leader - Group Payments

Posted 20 September 2024
LocationLondon
Job type Permanent
Discipline Product & Engineering
ReferenceJ13041

Job description

We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.   Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.     What does Access offer you?  We offer a flexible, hybrid working environment where you can balance work and life while maintaining a strong office team-based culture. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.  On top of a competitive salary, our standard 25 days holiday (which goes up the longer you’re with us), and a matched pension scheme, you’ll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We’re an organisation that likes to give back, so you’ll also have one charity day allocated to support a cause that matters to you. What is Group Payments: Group Payments is the foundation of the Access PaySuite (payments division) growth plan and one of the top strategic pillars to enable double digit growth year on year by enabling payment services to the 100,000 group software customers and monetising payments through various different user journeys & use cases. Working in a small incubated squad and leading a small yet growing product team enabling embedded payments in direct to merchant software use cases for both B2B & B2C models. Group payments is a horizontal payments initiative to power the payments engine within the access group and cover multiple use cases from invoice management to fully embedded payments for direct consumers via multiple channels; Online, in store, recurring payments and providing enhanced reconciliation in the back office.     About you:  As an experienced Senior Product Manager, you’ll have worked within Payments, Financial services, SAAS, B2B or B2C software products before. You’re a Product Leader – an eternal optimist, an excellent communicator and an all-round team player. You’re dedicated to creating value for our customers and the market that they work within through building great solutions with great user experiences. You believe that great decisions / direction is born from great research and are willing to do what is necessary to ensure we go the right way. You are comfortable talking to our commercial teams as you are our technical teams. Fundamentally, you have a real desire to want to make a difference and are willing to persevere in order to achieve that. Day-to-day, you will:  • Design, Define & Deliver embedded payments capabilities and monetise payments for specific divisions across the Access Group. • Work with the P&E functional & divisional stakeholders to gather requirements for their payment needs within their existing SaaS products, translating these requirements into • Epics/Features for Access PaySuite (APS) to build into their proposition. • Create and align the product roadmap for divisions with the company's Strategy and Vision, leveraging market understanding, internal access & external customer insights, and competitive analysis. • Drive product profitability and innovation, managing the entire product lifecycle, and set strategic direction from ideation to obsolescence. • Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to communicate the product roadmap, develop and execute launch plans, and support sales and go-to-market initiatives. • Develop expertise in customers' business processes, support pre-sales activities, and engage divisions becoming the payments Subject Matter Expert (SME) through indepth discussions with peers across the access group. Your skills and experiences might also include:   • Commercially aware with strong market and client insight; flexible and pragmatic, adept at responding to shifting priorities using analytical and problem-solving skills. • Creative thinker who exploits opportunities; proactive, goal-oriented, and focused on delivery and milestones. • Excellent communicator at all levels with a flexible, consultative approach; persuasive, encouraging, and motivating with strong interpersonal skills. • Demonstrates sound judgment, capable of independent decision-making with appropriate escalation; quick to grasp technical concepts and agile development methods What are we all about?  The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered providers of business management software to small and mid-sized organisations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific. It helps more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient. Our products and solutions go beyond providing technology, we connect the right people with the right data, at the right time, through Access Workspace.   At Access, we are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're excited about this role, (even if your previous experience doesn't align perfectly), you might just be the perfect fit for us! We wholeheartedly believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. Why not join our vibrant team where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you? Let's make a difference together. Love Work. Love Life. Be You.