VP Product

Product Management London, England, United Kingdom

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Summary

Over 25 years of experience in publicly listed IT & Telecoms companies focusing on leadership, digital transformation, portfolio and product management and project management. International experience with strengths in team development, sales enablement, process improvement, requirements and gap analysis and new product line developments.

I am strategic and technical, a critical thinker and an innovative problem solver. Adaptable, data-driven and comfortable engaging and managing the business, technology teams and partners at all levels. Im hands-on, with a servant leadership style. Very comfortable with ambiguity whilst driving for clarity with data.

My core competencies include product and service innovation, business strategy, product design and delivery, business transformation and change management in enterprise B2B, B2C and B2B2x (P2P). Utilising Microservices, API first, Cloud-native, Headless (MACH) architecture to optimise existing business models or develop new, e.g. platform.

Key achievements
The visionary behind the industrys first business platform as a service, SaaS offering enabling B2B2X through zero-touch orchestration and partnering and rapid creation of public and private marketplaces.
Moved BT Global Services to the Leader quadrant for cloud-enabled managed hosting.
Transformed BT Compute portfolio to a cloud-based solution with a multiparter digital marketplace.
Re-imagined industry innovation through the catalyst program, enabling over 200 companies to co-innovate solutions that address some of the biggest challenges faced by the industry.
Defined and implemented an Agile way of working (WoW) for over 30 programs delivering the published standards for APIs, cloud-native applications, and enterprise architecture.
Won numerous industry awards for innovation within cloud computing.
Enabled co-innovation of software, incorporating a new company entity and the design and build of an Open Digital Lab to support the continuous integration and development (CI/CD) of the Open Digital Architecture (ODA) application components.

Expectations

A good business challenge that requires creative thought and innovation to challenge me.
A leadership team willing to back the project/program from the top down, financially and culturally.
To be part of and/or lead/build an engaging, motivated and inclusive team.
Preferably, the product or service fits in the 'tech for good' category. The company is committed to implementing or actively changing its business model to include circular economic models.