Principal Product Manager - Product Coach

Location/s: Camridge or London
Recruiter contact: Nikki George

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. 

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. 

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

With digital innovation and excellence at the core of our purpose, we are known for our digital portfolio across the AEC sector and constantly strive to be at the forefront of the intersection between technology and engineering. 

Moata, our industry leading internal and external facing platform, hosts a range of solutions that harness the power of data to solve today’s most pressing infrastructure challenges around the globe. It is open, secure, scalable and adaptable—delivering predictive power in a geospatial context through advanced analytics and machine learning. 

We are launching a new product portfolio that will become the foundation of all project delivery at Mott MacDonald: 

A collaborative delivery platform that brings together project teams, partners and clients into one place to simplify and supercharge project delivery, delivering better outcomes for society across global infrastructure delivery.   

This AIenabled platform will set us up for the next decade of transformative technology change. We aim to lead the industry with a highly ambitious vision. Initial pilots are live; now we seek a highly skilled and effective Principal Product Manager to confirm our strategy, accelerate progress and deliver impact at scale. 

Are you ready to shape the future?  

As a Principal Product Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of our digital transformation journey. Your role won’t just be about managing products; it’s about driving outcomes, creating impact and empowering change. You will lead the product management function in a 250strong team of product leads, product managers, developers, data scientists and designers—driving and owning our ways of working across the entire product management organisation globally. 

What You’ll Focus On 

• Drive strategic impact: Play a central role in developing our product management capability, aligning innovation with measurable outcomes. As part of a focused product leadership team, help steer the direction of digital products that support decarbonisation, resilience and efficiency across global projects. 
• Collaborate across sectors: Work closely with specialists in engineering, design, software development and data science. Your work will be shaped by diverse perspectives and deep domain expertise, ensuring our products are technically sound and meaningful to the people who use them. 
• Integrate AI thoughtfully: In our AI enabled ecosystem, embed intelligence into our products in ways that enhance user experience and commercial value. Focus on understanding customer needs and translating them into intuitive, data informed solutions that support sustainable outcomes. 

Key Responsibilities 

Product Strategy & Vision 

• Define and communicate a compelling product vision aligned with broader organisational goals and industry leadership ambitions. 
• Develop product roadmaps that balance customer needs, business objectives, and technical feasibility. 
• Incorporate feedback from customers and stakeholders into strategy and prioritisation. 

Lead & Coach – Global Ways of Working 

• Drive our ways of working for the entire product management organisation—codifying frameworks for discovery, delivery and measurement. 
• Coach and support PMs, SPMs and PPMs globally to achieve their product goals, leading by example as the portfolio owner. 
• Embed lean, agile and modern product management practices and contribute to the continuous evolution of our product function. 

Product Development & Execution 

• Lead end-to-end product development for the collaborative delivery platform portfolio, from concept to delivery and scaleup. 
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (engineering, design, domain experts, marketing) to ensure successful execution. 
• Monitor progress, manage risks and adapt plans to deliver highquality outcomes. 

Market Research & Insights 

• Conduct market research to identify trends, customer pain points, and the competitive landscape. 
• Gather insights from customers, project teams, business development, and industry experts. 
• Use data driven analysis and experimentation to inform decisions and validate assumptions. 

Stakeholder Management 

• Engage proactively with internal and external stakeholders, including clients and partners. 
• Understand their needs, pain points and business objectives, translating them into actionable product features and outcomes. 
• Communicate progress, decisions and tradeoffs clearly and credibly. 

Product Lifecycle Management 

• Define metrics to measure product success and track performance across discovery, delivery and adoption. 
• Continuously improve based on user feedback, telemetry and market dynamics. 
• Make informed decisions about enhancements, updates and retirements to optimise value. 

Business Acumen 

• Understand the B2B landscape, industry trends and competitive forces across the AEC sector. 
• Identify growth opportunities, partnerships, and areas for differentiation. 
• Balance shortterm revenue goals with longterm strategic vision and platform sustainability. 

Data & AI Integration 

• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to infuse AI capabilities (e.g., predictive analytics, intelligent assistance, automation) into the platform. 
• Ensure AI solutions align with customer needs, ethical standards, security and commercial value. 
• Strategically leverage data and AI insights without overengineering—creating innovative, usercentric and commercially viable products. 

Candidate Specification: 

Formal Education & Experience 

• University degree in business, engineering or a related field. 
• Extensive product management experience (preferably B2B), including leadership of complex products or portfolios. 
• Track record of successful product launches, client satisfaction and influencing organisational practices. 

Skills & Abilities 

• Strong leadership and communication skills; able to influence without direct authority. 
• Strategic thinker with a customercentric mindset and a bias for action—passionate and visionary, yet pragmatic and deliveryfocused. 
• Proven collaboration across functions and with senior stakeholders. 
• Adaptability in a dynamic business environment; comfortable with discovery, ambiguity and iteration. 

Preferred Experience 

• B2B software, enterprise solutions or industrial sectors. 
• Partner management and ecosystem development. 
• Technical software background; knowledge of AI and data products desirable. 
• Experience shaping product operating models and ways of working at scale. 

Success Metrics 

• Clear, validated strategy and accelerated delivery for the collaborative delivery platform portfolio. 
• Adoption, usage and measurable outcomes across global projects 
• Maturity and consistency of product management practices across all portfolios. 
• Positive feedback from PMs and stakeholders on coaching, frameworks and leadership. 

Why Join Us 

• An opportunity to lead a high-performing product management organisation and change and industry.  
• Industry leading platform (Moata) and an ambitious new portfolio at the centre of project delivery. 
• Experienced team around you with award-winning technology and deep domain expertise. 
• A chance to set the standard for modern product management in a mission driven, employee owned organisation. 

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. 

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UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working  

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion 

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

 Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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