Contract Senior Product Manager - Household Name Logistics Company
6-Month Contract | Up to £670/day | Immediate start | Inside IR35
Pulse recruit are leading the search for a senior product manager who thrives in complexity, scales impact fast and can bring structure and clarity to dispersed teams and muddled backlogs.
This isn’t about keeping the lights on. This is about turning ambiguity into momentum, building product muscle and lifting capability across squads that are under-resourced and over-stretched.
The Challenge
There are three main product streams in flight right now — all with huge potential, all with fragmented ownership and all crying out for sharp prioritisation:
• Business Intelligence: rapid insights that drive commercial dashboards and operational clarity
• Geospatial & front end: bringing location and network performance into usable surfaces
• Automation and data quality: make sure data workflows are correct, up to date and actually useful for decisions
At the moment:
• Backlogs are scattered
• Teams are directionless
• Product ways of working are inconsistent
You will be the person who brings order to the chaos.
What You’ll Own
Product Leadership & Team Uplift
• Instill clear product ownership, accountability and prioritisation in squads
• Define backlogs that actually drive impact
• Build and socialise roadmaps, mission and vision
• Coach teams and leaders in modern product thinking and agile practice
Strategic Product Thinking
• Lift the horizon beyond tactical delivery to real strategic opportunity
• Blend domain intelligence with long-term product vision
• Connect the dots between data, capability and business outcomes
• Shape product frameworks that outlive this contract
Who Will Excel
This role suits someone who is:
• Comfortable stepping into messy environments and making sense of them
• A strategist and a doer - capable of big-picture thinking AND putting structure around delivery
• A strong communicator who can align teams, stakeholders and senior leaders
• Experienced with data-intensive products and product intelligence
• Able to coach and uplift teams, not just dictate tasks
You should be able to walk into a room, draw a clear problem statement and a path to a solution.
What You’ll Do (Daily)
• Work deeply with data, engineering and design partners to align on priorities and dependencies
• Drive clarity on who owns what data and why it matters
• Turn raw, disconnected work into clear, outcome-led backlogs
• Translate insights into strategic direction and actionable sprints
• Coach teams on better product thinking and modern rituals
You Bring
• A strong track record as a Senior / Lead Product Manager
• Experience operating at scale in complex organisations
• Skilled at backlog triage, roadmapping and cross-functional alignment
• High EQ — you manage stakeholders & teams with confidence
• Contextual understanding of data, dashboards and decision support
This role is for someone who does product work with real-world business impact. You’ll leave things better than you found them, with teams empowered and better equipped long after the contract ends.