Junior Product Manager

Full Time, Central London

An exciting in-house opportunity has arisen for a talented and ambitious person who has proven experience of requirements analysis and technical authoring as part of the software development process.

The ideal candidate will have business and/or client facing experience.  Experience of working as part of a software development team working on hosted web-based solutions and/or experience of the Employee Benefits market will be beneficial.

Working for the Product Manager, you will need to be able to acquire knowledge of a complex market and complex systems quickly.  You will then need the aptitude to be able to translate the complex concepts and terminology learnt into language and software design that can be easily understood.

An excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office is essential.  As a minimum you should be educated to degree level.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, be targeted and delivery focused. 

Key Accountabilities

Product Management

• Manage the gathering and assist with prioritisation of enhancement requests from within the business and externally
• Create and deliver requirements documents to the development team
• Work with the development team in design and quality assurance of new developments and feature enhancements
• Assist in the maintenance and creation of product documentation
• Develop an in-depth knowledge of our solutions in order to assist in response to verbal and written questions both internally and from clients and partners
• Assist with research and management of special projects

About Thomsons Online Benefits

Thomsons Online Benefits offer a unique approach to employee benefits. Since our inception in 2000 our vision has been to offer products and services which not only transform employee's appreciation and understanding of their benefits but also remove the administration and communication headaches organisations suffer as a result of running such schemes.

We are the only provider in the market to offer a holistic approach incorporating all the services and competences required to develop, deliver and manage an employee benefits strategy.  Our services include:

• consulting
• benefit broking
• regulated benefit advice
• benefit design
• implementation and project management
• technology
• employee communication and branding
• benefit administration

Our team of 80 work together in one location to ensure that all of services are co-ordinated.

We are a vibrant, fast moving and entrepreneurial team and we offer excellent career development opportunities for experienced professionals and graduates to work with similarly ambitious global clients in all sectors.

We always set ourselves high standards and have won nine awards demonstrating our commitment to providing a quality service founded on innovation. Our successful and profitable growth has meant that we are currently of Britain's fastest growing unquoted technology companies (Sunday Times TechTrack 100).