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London (onsite/ hybrid) Product and Engineering Reporting to our VP of Product We're not just closing the digital divide; we're reconnecting distributed organisations, enabling seamless communication, and re engaging employees like never before. Blink, a mobile first employee experience platform, puts everything employees need right in their hands. With teams in Boston, London, and Sydney, we're making waves worldwide, partnering with industry leaders like Domino's, JD Sports and McDonald's. About the Role We're looking for a Senior Product Manager who can successfully lead two engineering squads simultaneously. You'll balance strategic product development with product experience improvements, while driving features from discovery through to market launch. This role requires someone who thrives in complexity-switching between domains such as data analytics, internal tooling, and core product features while keeping your squads aligned, motivated, and shipping. What You'll Own Dual Squad Leadership: Manage two autonomous engineering teams end to end, maintaining momentum and clarity across both while fostering a culture of ownership and accountability. Data Product Strategy: Launch and drive our data and analytics consumer product forward, translating complex data requirements into intuitive solutions that serve both internal and external users. Customer Commitment Delivery: Ensure your squads deliver on enterprise customer commitments, managing expectations and trade offs when priorities shift. Discovery to Launch: Lead discovery processes to validate new feature ideas, working closely with customers and internal teams to define requirements, then shepherd features through development to successful market launch. Go to Market Strategy: Partner with marketing, sales, and customer success to develop launch strategies, positioning, and enablement materials that drive feature adoption. Product Roadmap: Own and communicate a clear roadmap for both squads that balances customer requests, technical debt, strategic initiatives, and new product opportunities. Cross Functional Collaboration: Work closely with sales, customer success, and marketing to gather insights, support deals, and ensure product decisions ladder up to business objectives. Required: 5+ years of product management experience in B2B SaaS. Proven experience managing multiple engineering squads or complex workstreams simultaneously. Data product experience - analytics, reporting, business intelligence, or similar. Understanding of data infrastructure, pipelines, or analytics platforms would be highly favoured. Technical fluency to work effectively with engineering teams on both data and core product challenges. Track record of launching new products to market, including developing go to market strategies and working cross functionally to drive adoption. Customer discovery and validation skills - comfortable running interviews, analyzing feedback, and translating insights into product decisions. Why Blink? You will have the opportunity to be part of something impactful, large scale, and meaningful. Most importantly, you'll work for a company with a strong purpose, with an ambitious and supportive team embarking on a journey most start ups can only dream of! Benefits include: Competitive salary. Stock options on starting and additional high performer grants annually! 25 days' leave + public holidays. Additional time off between Christmas and New Year. Private healthcare with AXA. 3% employer pension contribution when you contribute 5%. Cycle to Work scheme. Social events ( lunches, breakfasts, nights out). Enhanced parental leave.

Category Manager - Technology Procurement Department: 61-681 - Technology Operations - Delivery & Strategic Programmes : Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time Location: UK - Leeds Reporting To: Chris Lear Description Why Join DAZN? At DAZN, we're redefining how the world experiences sport. As the global home of live and on-demand sports streaming, we operate at the intersection of technology, media, and fandom - delivering premium content to millions of subscribers across multiple markets. Joining DAZN means working in a high-growth, high-performance environment where innovation is constant and ambition is encouraged. You'll collaborate with world-class talent across product, technology, content, and commercial teams, building experiences that truly matter to fans. We move fast, we take ownership, and we back people who bring ideas and drive. Whether you're shaping strategy, building platforms, producing content, or leading teams, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact on a global stage. The Role As our Technology Procurement Category Manager, you'll own the strategy and execution for how we source, negotiate, and manage the technology that powers the world's leading sports streaming platform. From cloud infrastructure to SaaS platforms, broadcast tech to AI tooling-if it's tech and we're buying it, you'll have a hand in making it happen. You'll work closely with teams across Engineering, Product, Finance, Legal, and IT to make sure we're getting the best value, building strong vendor partnerships, and staying ahead of the curve. This isn't just about cutting costs-it's about enabling DAZN to move fast, scale globally, and keep innovating. If you're passionate about technology, love a good negotiation, and want to be part of something that millions of sports fans care about-let's talk. What You'll Be Doing Owning category strategy - Develop and execute procurement strategies across technology categories including cloud, SaaS, infrastructure, broadcast/streaming tech, cybersecurity, and AI/ML tooling Running sourcing & negotiations - Lead end-to-end sourcing activities, from RFPs to contract negotiation, securing favourable terms and long-term value Building vendor relationships - Manage strategic supplier partnerships, conduct performance reviews, and hold vendors accountable to SLAs and deliverables Driving cost optimisation - Analyse spend data to identify savings opportunities, eliminate waste, and support FinOps initiatives across cloud and SaaS Collaborating cross-functionally - Partner with Engineering, IT, Product, Finance, and Legal to understand requirements and align procurement with business priorities Implementing tools & processes - Identify opportunities to improve procurement operations through new tools, automation, or policy enhancements Staying ahead of the market - Track emerging technologies, vendor landscapes, and industry trends to inform sourcing decisions and bring fresh ideas to the table Supporting AI & innovation initiatives - Contribute to the evaluation and procurement of AI/ML solutions and help embed responsible, forward-thinking sourcing practices What You'll Bring 3-5 years' experience in technology procurement, sourcing, or category management Solid track record negotiating contracts and managing vendors across technology categories Strong analytical skills-comfortable digging into spend data and turning insights into actionExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills; you can influence without authority Organised and delivery-focused, able to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously Genuine interest in technology and how it enables business outcomes Benefits Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days' annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

Project Manager - School of Mechanical Engineering - 104636 - Grade 7 United Kingdom Be the First to Apply Job Description School of Mechanical Engineering Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049 with potential progression once in post to £48,822. As this vacancy has limited funding the maximum salary that can be offered is Grade 7, salary £46,049 Full Time, Fixed Term contract up to September 2031 UK and International travel may be required for this role Our offer to you People are at the heart of what we are and do. The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success. We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University. We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work. Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries. The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state of the art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens. This role is based within the School of Engineering (College of Engineering and Physical Sciences). The School, which is the largest in the College, is a multi department School comprising the disciplines of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering. The post holder will be expected to take a lead role in Project Management for the EPSRC Manufacturing Research Hub in Robotics. The post holder is an integral member of the School's research Professional Services staff which is led by the Head of Operations and the Research Administration Manager. The post holder will provide research support to the Principal Investigator and Project Team for the Hub to ensure successful delivery. The post holder will be part of a wider network of Project Manager and Project Officer staff in the School of Engineering, the College of EPS and wider University. Role Summary Specifically, the post will provide project management of the EPSRC Manufacturing Research Hub in Robotics, Automation & Smart Machine Enabled Sustainable Circular Manufacturing & Materials (RESCu M2). The vision of this hub is to pursue an integrated, holistic approach toward creating a new manufacturing ecosystem for circular resource use of high value products through advances in AI and intelligent automation, empowering the UK to be a world leader in circular manufacturing. More information can be found here: £34.6M awarded to host National Hub for a robotics enabled sustainable future for manufacturing - University of Birmingham Main Duties Responsible for the delivery of one or more projects or for contributing to larger University projects, through the provision of significant and high level project management support. This may include some or all of the following: developing project plans, identifying (as appropriate) key performance indicators and milestones reviewing and auditing progress on projects to identify and act on improvements to effectiveness, efficiency and delivery reporting on progress including the development of reporting mechanisms, writing reports (eg on project budgetary management), and presenting to appropriate meetings such as Project Board or to other key stakeholders providing executive support to Project Boards, work streams and working groups as required; setting agendas, collating and distributing papers and minutes and ensuring follow up action is taken assessing and escalating as you deem appropriate issues and risks, including monitoring risk registers Stakeholder management, ensuring effective liaison with project partners, funders, Project Boards as appropriate managing project resources efficiently and effectively, including budgets, and ensure project documentation is maintained Responsible for leading and coordinating the organisation of conferences/ meetings/ workshops/ dissemination events if required Develop and deliver communication strategy for the project(s), which may include developing, for example, newsletters, briefings for stakeholders and/or websites or other social media Ensure that priorities are balanced, taking action to deliver agreed deliverables against timelines Maintain an up to date knowledge of project management methodologies Source, analyse and develop insights from the data to inform evaluation and review of projects Promote equality and value diversity acting as a role model and fostering an inclusive working culture Supporting the University's sustainability agenda through resource efficient working Travel may be required to support successful project delivery Any other duties commensurate with the grade. Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience Qualified to Degree level or equivalent, and practical managerial experience or significant relevant experience demonstrated through more demanding roles evidencing the experience necessary for this role. Proven track record of successful project management, preferably using one or more project management tools such as Prince2. Evidence of literacy and numeracy, with the ability to write clearly, and to produce and analyse information and data. Excellent budgetary management skills and demonstrated experience of managing large and complex project budgets and portfolio. Highly proficient IT skills, including the MS Office and website editing software. Confident and able to quickly learn new IT skills and software packages as required. Excellent interpersonal, communication, relationship building and influencing skills with the ability to confidently deal with a range of internal and external stakeholders/contacts. Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to multi task, approaching work methodically with the ability to prioritise workloads in order to meet deadlines. Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly. Substantial experience of managing large and complex research projects. View our staff values and behaviours here Use of AI in applications:We want to understand your genuine interest in the role and for the written elements of your application to accurately reflect your own communication style. Applications that rely too heavily on AI tools can appear generic and lack the detail we need to assess your skills and experience. Such applications will unlikely be progressed to interview. We believe there is no such thing as a 'typical' member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation and debate at the heart of University life. We are committed to proactively addressing the barriers experienced by some groups in our community and are proud to hold Athena SWAN, Race Equality Charter and Disability Confident accreditations. We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Centre that focuses on continuously improving the University as a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. We are also committed to sustainability, which is a key part of our strategy. You can find out more about our work to create a fairer university for everyone on our website . Job Info Job Identification 8817 Job Category Manager Posting Date 02/19/2026, 12:01 AM Apply Before 03/12/2026, 11:59 PM Job Schedule Full time Locations Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TT, GB