SPI Senior Product Manager (Cloud & FinOps)

The Shared Platforms & Integration (SPI) Senior Product Manager (Cloud & FinOps) is collaborative and strategic and dedicated to developing and executing both long-term vision and strategic plans for SPI FinOps products. Working closely with COEs, SPI Leadership and Platform teams, this role ensures product direction aligns with SoftwareOne (SWO) goals and delivers maximum value to the organisation. The Senior Product Manager acts as a subject matter expert; maintaining knowledge of relevant industry trends, competitors and best practice to ensure products become valuable business assets and contribute to the company’s overall success. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Develop and execute a long-term vision and strategy for SWO SPI Cloud & FinOps tooling in collaboration with SPI product leadership, CoEs and Platform Teams. 

• Lead the creation and maintenance of a consolidated roadmap, merging core platform infrastructure and features to support COE requirements. 

• Understand the broader ecosystem of SWO products and services, identifying opportunities to leverage shared capabilities and functionalities. 

• Resolve alignment and prioritisation issues, contribute to portfolio-level solutions, and drive clarity and alignment across leadership teams. 

• Working with CoEs to translate Cloud & FinOps market trends, customer feedback, and internal SWO needs into actionable product capabilities and strategic direction. 

• Remain current with industry developments, best practices, and regulatory changes to ensure products remain cutting-edge and compliant. 

• Identify and mitigate risks, manage escalations, and balance business needs versus technical constraints to maximise business impact while ensuring an optimal user experience. 

• Collect, analyse, and leverage feedback from multiple sources, including monitoring product metrics, KPIs, and user data to inform product decisions. 

• Communicate and evangelise product capabilities, benefits, and value propositions to sales and delivery teams. 

• Capture ideas, encompassing solution requirements, mock-ups, success criteria and record related assumptions, risks, and issues. 

• Ensure risks and issues are actively captured and managed 

• Assess ideas against agreed goals and work with SPI and Platform development teams to estimate effort required for delivery. 

• Ensure Product Owners understand requirements, assist with solution design and ticket creation, and work with SPI Product Owners to schedule development according to the prioritised roadmap.