Flexa
Mars UK • United Kingdom

Data Product Portfolio Manager

Employment type:  Full time

3–4 days/week at home

Core hours 11–3

Dog friendly

Job Description

Job Description:

  • As a strong Data Product Portfolio Manager you will be experienced in data product strategy, leadership, problem identification and definition, platform development, delivery, and release to end users and systems
  • Monitor product performance eg Model variances, app performance, data changes. Ensure that models serve the intended results in production, and if not investigate why?
  • Monitor value creation of each product, to the point of diminishing returns once products in production ie the cost of development is greater than the value generated.
  • Inform business & product leads on model reliability post production and
  • Monitor adoptions metrics and propose iterative development of features to scale business cases
  • Manage & prioritise Change Requests to existing product portfolio
  • Govern UX & Design consistency across products & Verticals
  • Managing scaling and versions of products, SOW, testing, sign offs, deployments
  • Work with product leads on the closure of products
  • Act as the primary liaison and ambassador for the products in production, including authority for approval of features and change messaging for stakeholders prior to each release
  • Building a collaborative product management community across ODDA.
  • Advocate the development using DevOPs principles & practices and support portfolio of products with a DevOps team
  • Ensure Product Adoption and Engagement facilitate conversations and decision making on next set of feature development and scaling

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Location
94%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
91%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
84%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
80%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
81%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
90%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Additional employee ratings
(these do not contribute to the FlexScore®)

Diversity
75%
Employees feel that the diversity is good and there are continued efforts to improve it
Inclusion
78%
Employees feel that the culture supports equity and inclusivity well
Culture
86%
Employees feel like it is a really great environment to work in
Mission
84%
Employees feel very excited about and aligned with the company mission
Salary
70%
Employees feel that their salary is good and matches the value they bring

Working at Mars UK

Company employees

4,000 In the UK

Gender diversity (male:female)

57:43

Office locations

London, Slough, Waltham, Castle Cary, Birstall, Plymouth

Hiring Countries

Brazil
France
Netherlands
United Kingdom
United States

Awards & Achievements

1st – Large companies

1st – Large companies

Flexa100 2024
Consumer Goods

Consumer Goods

Industry awards 2023
3rd – Large companies

3rd – Large companies

Flexa100 2023
Retail & Ecommerce

Retail & Ecommerce

Industry awards 2022