IT Senior Manager - Data Product Portfolio Management (Azure)

My client, a leading multinational, is looking for an IT Data Product Senior Manager to deliver the demand of data products and deliver measurable value. The role owns the enterprise Data Product Portfolio, ensuring business demand is translated into scalable, reusable and governed data products catalogued, assigned accountable Product Owners, and continuously improved as enduring strategic assets rather than one-off projects.

Providing leadership across demand management, solution design, delivery execution, vendor management and supporting AI innovation, the role drives the development and scaling of Data Product use cases in partnership with business stakeholders.

You will not be responsible for generating demand but delivering the products arising from the demand.

It requires strong leadership, commercial acumen, vendor management expertise and the credibility to engage senior stakeholders across the organisation. The role manages a small team and deliver data products through solution designers and vendors.

Essential

• Manage the build of data products and repurposing existing data products according to business needs
• Define, establish and manage the enterprise Data Product Portfolio aligned to strategic priorities, leading portfolio prioritisation and investment decisions.
• Enriching the global data platform through the introduction of new data product
• Have worked in an SAP environment
• Experienced in an Azure environment (Azure Data Lake)
• Vendor Management experience is key
• Reviewing data products
• Maintain a roadmap of reusable data products, analytics capabilities and solutions within a product-centric operating model with clear ownership, funding and life cycle management.