Product Manager - Contract Role at IO Associates, West London, £Contract Rate

Contract Product Manager Legacy Platform Discovery Outside IR35

Contract: Initial 3 months (strong extension potential)
Location: Hybrid (3 days onsite in central London)
Rate: £350 to £400 per day

Outside IR35

I'm working with a retail business delivering a major transformation, and we're looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead the discovery phase of a business-critical platform replacement.

This is not a delivery-focused Product Manager role.

The initial engagement is centred around understanding the existing platform, defining the future state and producing a delivery-ready requirements package. If the business case is approved and the programme progresses into implementation, there is a strong likelihood of extension.

The first 3 months will focus on:

• Discovery workshops with business and technical stakeholders
• Understanding the current state, processes and integrations
• Defining the future-state vision and operating model
• Producing epics, user stories and a prioritised product backlog
• Defining the MVP
• Creating a comprehensive requirements package for engineering teams
• Supporting the business case for the next phase of the programme

We're looking for someone who has experience with:

• Product discovery and requirements gathering
• Legacy platform replacement or modernisation programmes
• Current state / future state analysis
• Workshop facilitation and stakeholder management
• Producing delivery-ready product artefacts
• Defining MVPs and phased delivery approaches

Highly desirable experience

• Retail
• Merchandising
• Supply Chain
• Planning platforms
• Enterprise business platforms

Experience working closely with architecture, engineering and data teams would also be highly beneficial.

If you're a Product Manager who enjoys solving complex business problems and shaping products before delivery begins, I'd love to speak with you.