Product Manager - Product Engineering & Simplification

Job Description:

Product Manager - Product Engineering & Simplification (C16) 

Location: Bupa Place, Salford Quays or Willow House, Staines 

Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months  

Salary: From £58,700 dependant on experience and location 

Full time: 37.5 Hours per week 
10% Management Scheme Bonus 

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns. 

This role will contribute and support Product Engineering’s role in ideation, product development, build and testing aligned to the product strategy. 

This role will: 

• Support the senior product manager with the delivery of preventive pathways, cross segment or cross product proposition development/design, transformation and/or simplification strategy (as assigned) 

• Represent product engineering on project meetings, liaising with PD&D, change, clinics or any other business function involved in the product development or build 

• Support the creation and review of governance packs prior to POGF, POGC, UPCO and JPPC 

You’ll help us make health happen by:

• Support the senior product manager with the design and delivery of engineering projects as assigned and as prioritised on the road map 

• Represent the engineering team in adherence to the product development framework 

• Lead the creation and approval of assets relating to your assigned projects 

• Support the briefing, commissioning and outputs from market and customer research linked to your assigned projects that feed in and support governance forums such as POGF 

• Understand and articulate how the engineering team fit into the wider health and dental team 

• Understand how current pipeline delivery supports the wider product strategy and ambition 

• Maintain and promote a culture of good risk and control management, ensuring good customer and regulatory outcomes. 

• Support the assessment of new opportunities into the team through effective triaging. 

Key Skills needed for this role:

• Product management experience, ideally within the Private Medical Insurance industry or alternatively within the General Insurance industry or the Financial Services industry 

• Ideally good knowledge of Bupa’s consumer or corporate PMI products and portfolios 

• Experience in managing or supporting fair value assessments and product reviews. 

• Experience in the definition and management of product improvement plans 

• Experience in managing or supporting the review of Terms and Conditions 

• Some experience or exposure to risk and incident management 

• Some experience in cross-functional impact assessment 

• Some experience or exposure to developing and designing new strategies / operational plans to maximise business opportunities. 

• Some familiarity with project management 

• Understanding of the proposition development processes and a good working knowledge of change/transformation processes and governance. 

Benefits 

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits. 

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more: 

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell 

• Bupa medical insurance as a benefit in kind 

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance 

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available 

• Various other benefits and online discounts 

At Bupa we adhere to a structured framework when awarding any changes to salary. We believe this creates a fair and consistent approach for all colleagues looking to grow or change role. For more guidance please click HERE. 

Before you apply for a vacancy, please ensure your job history on your workday profile is up to date with all your career history and achievements.  This will mean the Recruitment team have all the relevant information they need to review your application. 

Please be aware that if you’re successful in securing this role there may be changes to your notice period and other terms and conditions, your recruiter will be able to advise what this means for you during your application. 

Why Bupa? 

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. 

We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.  

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them. 

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

PR , Marketing & Brand

Locations:

Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House