Senior Manager, Product (Lease Accounting)

Senior Manager, Product (Lease Accounting)
Competitive + Bonus + Benefits
Remote, UK
Permanent full time
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Product within our Innervision team at IRIS Software Group!
Thisrole requires you to gather and collate insights from market research, customers and prospects as well as from sales and support feedback, competitive research and product performance stats.
To be successful, you must demonstrate understanding of the market, the customers, the PEST and competitive pressures affecting the market and fundamentally understand how customers of the product value the product over time. These insights will be analysed to develop proposals, business cases and used to set prices, licensing methods and packaging.
You areresponsible for proposing product and portfolio strategy and taking the lead on roadmaps including guiding creation of requirements, specifications, prototypes and gaining customer and market validation of decisions and clearly demonstrating customer values and benefits. You will also produce delivery timetables while managing customer expectations, evangelising and helping resolve issues.
You will work with marketing to launch and promote products, features, benefits and new releases as well as providing sales collateral and training to enable successful go to market plans. Youmust have the ability to originate, construct, present and persuade colleagues to make investments into the product for articulated returns and will be measured on the growing profitable performance of the product over time.
The above responsibilities will drive the customer adoption, revenue & profit for the product to meet and beat annual targets and provide long-term growth. This particular role for Innervision will require strong knowledge of Lease accounting and will drive the success of the products in the build up to the implementation of FRED 82 (now FRS 102 for leases) that takes effect from January 2026.
This role will lead on and support the Product Owner and Subject Matter Expert creation of detailed requirements transforming legislation into digestible work packages for engineering. Building the knowledge, value proposition and story telling of our marketing and sales teams to take advantage of the new opportunity.

Responsibilities
Understand market dynamics and predict market direction
Understand competitors direction, strengths and weakness and how the product competes
Understand how customers value a product, how customers are segmented, and how those segments are developing over time
Control the spend on product development, ensuring maximum possible return for that spend
Maximise opportunities to win new customers, including from cross-selling other products
Understanding customer attrition and taking product led decisions to minimise it
Manage & nurture a team who will help deduce, define and specify what needs to change to maximise all the above
Market & Competitor research and reporting (incl. opportunities and threats) Product performance reporting measuring success
Creating and maintaining product roadmaps
Business cases/financial justification for prioritisation of features

Experience and Knowledge
Ideally strong experience of lease accounting And/or an experienced leader
Training as a product manager/natural aptitude
Commercial understanding
Preferred: Understanding of modern agile software development processes
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to present in a sales, customer and executive context
Creative personality with ability to empathise and model customer desires & needs
Disciplined management ability: caring about process, quality, setting and managing expectations
Ability to influence and domain knowledge would be advantageous

Please note:
We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.
Who are we?

IRIS Software Group is one of the UKs largest privately held software companies. Its purpose is to be the most trusted provider of mission-critical software and services, ensuring customers get it right first time, every time.

IRIS takes the pain out of processes and let professionals working in businesses and schools focus on the work they love. Its software solutions and services for finance, HR and payroll teams, educational organisations, and accountancy firms helps comply with regulations, drive productivity and better engage with key stakeholders. Through simplifying, automating and providing insights on everyday mission-critical tasks for organisations of all shapes and sizes, IRIS ensures customers can look forward with certainty and confidence.

IRIS has over 120,000 UK and international customers with 80% having a tenure of five or more years. IRIS is the largest third-party online filer with the UK Government. Ninety-one of the top 100 UK accountancy firms and 50 of the top 100 US CPA firms use IRIS software. Circa 20% of the UKs workforce is paid by IRIS payroll offerings. More than 850,000 UK employees are managed by IRIS HR solutions. Over 11,000 UK schools and academies use IRIS, with four million parents and guardians using IRIS apps to connect with their childrens school; 300 million messages are delivered between schools and parents each year, and over £15 million transactional payments are processed every month. IRIS is placed 93rd in the Grant Thornton Sunday Times Top Track 250, which is compiled by Fast Track and published in The Sunday Times each September, celebrates Britain's private mid-market growth companies with the biggest performance.

Why you should apply

We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop employee potential and offer long-term career success. So, what can we offer you?

Competitive salary includingquarterly commission scheme and bonus scheme
26 days holiday allowance
Private medical healthcare
Life assurance
Pension
Complimentary benefits, including Bike to Work and discount schemes

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