Product Director

Product Director - Construction

Gerrards Cross (hybrid or remote)

Do you want to help shape software that affects thousands of lives?

Who are we?

We are ranked as the UK’s #1 construction specific software player and our mission is simple; to provide market leading end-to-end software solutions to the construction and construction like industries across the entire build life cycle.

If you are looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. Our teams are based in the UK, Europe, and India, working on products that are used on a global scale. We have a clear and defined road map to deliver over the next 3 years, which is centred around a large-scale digital transformation as well as continuing our growth and expansion.

We embrace diversity and equality and want our employees to be comfortable bringing their whole selves to work. We are committed to building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills and views. Creating a culture of Equality isn’t just the right thing to do, it improves every aspect of our business.

Purpose

As the Construction Product Director, you will be a strategic leader responsible for shaping and executing the product strategy and vision in the Construction business unit. You will lead cross-functional teams, drive product development, and prioritize features to align with business objectives and market demands.

The Causeway Construction Business Unit includes systems for project estimating, subcontractor enquiries management, supply chain optimisation, workforce management, site control as well as project accounting and cost control. Customers include the Top Tier Contractors in the UK, UK government, thousands of general and subcontractors and hundreds of thousands of UK workers.

You will champion a customer-centric approach, analyse market trends, manage budgets, and communicate with various stakeholders. Your primary objective will be to align product initiatives with business goals and drive innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate a clear product strategy for the Construction business unit that aligns with the company's overall vision and objectives.
• Ensure product strategy supports the business unit’s successes in the UK and potentially in the French and USA markets
• Re-align products where required toward the business’s vision of leadership in the Construction sector
• Take the products and data services in Construction on a journey to CausewayOne, the company’s platform
• Lead and mentor a team of product managers and owners, fostering a culture of collaboration and excellence.
• Lead market research including sizing and competitor analysis to identify commercial opportunities and trends for product improvement.
• Collaborate with the executive team to prioritise projects, allocate resources, and manage the product roadmap.
• Monitor and analyse key product metrics to assess performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Define product requirements and user stories, ensuring they meet customer needs and business objectives.
• Track Product Profit and Loss statements for your portfolio.
• Work closely with design and engineering teams throughout the product development lifecycle to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget.
• Oversee product launches and lead go-to-market strategies in collaboration with the marketing team.
• Act as a product evangelist, both internally and externally, to drive product awareness and adoption of Infrastructure solutions and innovations.

Key Qualifications

• A bachelor's or master’s degree in business, engineering, marketing or within a related discipline.
• Substantial experience in product management is essential. This includes experience in developing and launching successful products, preferably with a track record of leadership and achieving results.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Key Skills

• Vision and Goal Setting: You will be required to help define a compelling vision, set clear goals, and chart our strategic direction with key performance indicators to guide and maintain our course. You will also help to communicate the vision and product goals to the wider organisation to ensure strong alignment and organisational readiness for launch and subsequent releases.
• Relationship Building and Stakeholder Management: Strengthening relationships with internal teams and external partners is vital. Fostering trust, collaboration, and alignment toward common objectives is essential, and effective stakeholder management is critical for our initiatives' success.
• Negotiating and Decision Making: You will possess strong negotiation skills for mutually beneficial agreements. Your ability to make informed decisions, considering various factors and potential outcomes, is crucial for navigating challenges and seizing opportunities.
• Communication and Influence: You will be required to convey ideas persuasively to internal teams and external parties, inspiring action, and buy-in. Your ability to influence others positively and drive results through communication will be a cornerstone of your success in this position.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Proficiency in managing the product lifecycle, from product launch to end-of-life strategies, with the ability to strategically align product goals, pricing, and market strategies at each stage. The skill in achieving product-market fit during the critical product launch phase, and the adaptability in pricing and market approaches as products mature, ensuring smooth transitions and resource optimization during product decline phases for strategic organizational pivots.
• Go to Market Strategy: Working alongside Product Marketing, you will be skilled in comprehensive planning for launches and market entry. Creating externally facing roadmaps, reviews, and updates when changes are required, and when plans need adapting to evolving goals and market dynamics. Effective internal communication updates to ensure teams and stakeholders are updated in a timely manner. Making sure all goals are defined, timelines communicated and key features for successful product development and executed.
• Strategic planning and financial management: You will be required to use financial forecasting to project future outcomes based on historical data and market trends, enabling informed decision-making. Crafting persuasive business cases to support strategic initiatives, validating business models for alignment with market dynamics, and prioritizing strategic goals will also be crucial aspects of your responsibilities.
• Strategy and Market Research: You will be familiar with validation techniques like observation, interviews, MVPs, and A/B testing to make pivot or persevere decisions. This includes competitor analysis to optimize product positioning in target segments and enhancing your value proposition for a competitive edge.

Industry Knowledge and Travel Requirements

• Knowledge of the UK construction industry, its supply chain and the how construction projects are designed, costed, built, and managed is essential.
• The design, product and development teams are located across offices all over the UK and there will be a requirement to travel to meet up.
• There will be regular meetings at the UK HQ in Gerrards Cross.
• The customer base and the major projects we support are UK-wide and there will be a requirement for project / location visits, industry meetings and advisory board collaborations with customers.

What you get from us:

If you're looking to build an exceptional career with an award-winning company you’ve come to the right place. We believe everyone at Causeway has a vital role to play in our success. Causeway is fuelled by curiosity and is a place for people who beam with positivity and burn with ambition.

Our team is everything, so we’ll take good care of you. In fact, we give well-being the same priority as our other business goals. We’re strong advocates of work-life balance, offering hybrid working alongside the opportunity to work from modern, collaborative offices.

Benefits

As a leader in employee engagement and people management, there are fantastic benefits and rewards at Causeway. We strive, year on year, to achieve recognition as an award-winning workplace that our employees love. We’ve selected just a few of the many benefits available below to show you how we take care of our Causeway stars.

• 25 days annual leave + public holidays, increasing with length of service.
• 4% matched pension.
• Income protection and life assurance.
• Access to our award-winning benefits platform.
• We take mental health seriously and have a dedicated EAP available 24/7.
• £100 allowance towards a fitness club.
• Dell, Apple and Microsoft discounts.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid study leave + volunteering days.
• Car Scheme.

Like all responsible companies Causeway is aware of the need to recognise the importance of protecting our environment and addressing the climate emergency. Causeway is a carbon neutral company and we offset our calculated carbon footprint. However, we recognise that offsetting is not a permanent solution, so we set environmental objectives to reduce our footprint year-on-year.