Job Role: Product Manager
Location: UK - Homebased
Salary: £83,500+ (DoE)
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time
What We Can Offer You: 25 Days Annual Leave, Additional Holiday Purchase, Hybrid Working, Performance-Related Bonus, Life Assurance, Vitality Private Healthcare, Subsidised Gym Memberships, Cycle to Work Scheme, Discount Vouchers and Access to Wellbeing Resources
Why do we want you?
Mercia Group, part of Wilmington plc, is one of the UK's leading providers of training, compliance and marketing support to accountancy firms. We're looking for a Product Manager to help shape the future of our compliance and advisory portfolio, ensuring our products continue to deliver exceptional value for customers while supporting the growth of the business.
Drawing on your background as a qualified accountant and your understanding of the challenges faced by accountancy firms, you'll combine customer insight, technical expertise and commercial thinking to define product strategy, develop roadmaps and identify opportunities for innovation. Working closely with subject matter experts and stakeholders across the business, you'll help create and evolve solutions that meet customer needs, leverage modern SaaS delivery models and strengthen Mercia's position in the market.
If you're excited about building products that solve real customer challenges and want to influence the future direction of a market-leading compliance offering, we'd love to hear from you!
Please note: To complete your application, you will be redirected to Wilmington plc’s career site.
At Wilmington plc, we celebrate individuality and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. As a Disability Confident employer, we shortlist all applicants who meet the essential role criteria and guarantee an interview for candidates with disabilities who meet these criteria. For reasonable adjustments or to apply under our interview guarantee scheme, please use the contact details provided once you have clicked “apply”!
What's the Best Thing About This Role?
You'll have the opportunity to take ownership of a well-established portfolio that's trusted by accountancy firms across the UK, while helping shape its future direction. Working with our subject matter experts, you'll influence everything from product strategy and pricing through to software partnerships and innovation, ensuring our methodology and advisory products continue to evolve with customer needs.
You'll also have the chance to play a key role in exploring how AI and emerging technologies can enhance our products and customer experience.
What’s the Most Challenging Thing About This Role?
You'll be balancing technical accuracy, regulatory change, customer needs and commercial performance across a portfolio of products and services. You'll need to quickly build a deep understanding of our methodology and offering and identify where there are opportunities for improvement.
In this role, you'll help define what great product management looks like at Mercia. You'll be expected to bring structure, strategic thinking and a continuous improvement mindset, helping us strengthen product management, evaluate new opportunities and maximise the value of a portfolio that is critical to our customers and our growth.
To be successful in this role, you must have:
To be successful in this role, it would be great if you have:
We know it’s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role’s location by the start of their employment.
About us
Mercia, part of Wilmington plc, is a leading provider of training, compliance, and support services to the UK accountancy profession.
Our focus is on helping accountants stay ahead of regulatory change and technical updates while supporting their development through practical learning resources.
Join us and do Work That Means Something
At Wilmington plc, we help global customers to do the right business in the right way - providing trusted data, insights, and education to navigate the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) landscape.
When you join us, you’ll not only make a real difference for our customers, you’ll also enjoy flexibility through hybrid working and benefit from a wide range of learning, career, and development opportunities.
Whether you're just starting out, returning to work after a break, or looking to take your next step, you’ll be doing work with meaning.
Join us and make a real difference. Click on “APPLY” today!
The Legal Bit!
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
*Please note that this role may remain advertised until an offer of employment has been made.
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