Are you a Product Manager who is looking to work on core product development within a SaaS environment?

What we do:

CDL is one of the UK’s leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent history in the high-volume retail insurance sector. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company’s robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace.

We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on cultivating an inspiring working environment with our employees at the heart of our company.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate Product Manager who will act as an ambassador for their products, you’ll develop a profound understanding of our customer and end-user needs. Working within an agile environment, you will inspire the software delivery engineering team through high-value deliverables, communicating the vision effectively.

It will be your responsibility to work with the Lead Product Manager to forge your vision for your products and drive the business goals through the team. 

CDL expects its Product Managers to be the experts and lead the business in a product led culture to help achieve its lofty goals to expand our UK & global footprints and help our customers win through technology. Working within the Connected Services area you will work with a highly skilled team of engineers working on CDLs growing API offerings connecting the web front end products to our back office infrastructure, manage the interface with the insurance aggregator platforms and drive new innovative ways to create value for CDL and our clients  

 We are looking for someone who has strong commercial awareness and experience working with cloud-based solutions in a Software as a Service environment. As a Product Owner Manager, you will build your product roadmap to align to the company strategy. Product Managers at CDL have the autonomy to develop their products and own the commercial success, they manager the products profit & loss and work closely with the commercial teams to deliver the best value for CDL and our customers.

Within the digital core product team we are looking for a candidate that can move our connected services products forward. The successful candidate will be working with our development teams building out our API suite, Apache Camel Middleware amongst other technologies as well as identifying new innovative products that deliver value outcomes for both CDL and our clients.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

• Hold a track record of delivering product-led development in an Agile environment
• Experience in a similar role working as a Product Owner/Manager within a software delivery and agile environment
• Experience working with cloud-based solutions such as AWS.
• It is highly desirable if you have experience working with web applications, Apache Camel and API’s
• Excellent communication skills – Client facing experience
• Knowledge and understanding of numerous agile approaches and how they effect your delivery
• An excellent self-organiser and experience in getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work

Beneficial or areas for learning:

• First level Scrum Product Owner certification (PSPO I, CSPO) or equivalent

Benefits

• Hybrid Working (2+ Days a Week in the office)
• Flexible hours
• 25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per 1 year of service up to 30 days.
• Top employer for 8th year running
• Excellent training and development platform
• Opportunities for career progression
• Health and Wellbeing programme
• Virtual activities, lunch and learns, coffee mornings and meetups.
• Life and health assurance
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Established Recognition Award System
• Great Parental Benefits
• Diversity and Inclusion network 
• Pension scheme
• Community projects and volunteer days 
• Refer a friend bonus 

Campus Benefits:

• On-site free parking
• Open plan modern offices
• Quiet Spaces are also available
• Shuttle bus to and from the station
• Subsidised restaurant
• Games room and chill out zone
• Annual Hackathon Events
• Social activities, regular social events through our social group Xtra, including a summer BBQ, competitions, bowling, go-karting, football games, Winter party and much more!
• Car wash, barber, yoga classes, boot camp and massage services all on site
• Cycle to work scheme
• Shower and dry rooms

About CDL Software

The UKs biggest insurance retailers rely on CDLs trend setting solutions to drive success and growth. Our ambition and commitment has produced a track record of delivering exactly that. The result is a client base that includes some of the most profitable insurance operations in the UK.