Job Introduction
Product Portfolio Manager - Survey, Communications & GPODS - National - Monday to Friday - 07:30-17:00 - 42 hours per week
Speedy are the UK & Ireland’s leading hire provider with the widest range of tools, specialist hire equipment, plant, and support services – everything for every job!
Join Our Team as a Product Portfolio Manager - Survey, Communications & GPODS
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Product Portfolio Manager, Accountable for the strategic management and commercial performance of a defined product portfolio.
Driving utilisation, return on capital, and full lifecycle optimisation across products, ensuring alignment to business objectives, market demand, and sustainability goals. Leading cross-functional teams to deliver performance, embed transformational change, and build organisational capability.
What You'll Be Doing
- Own the assigned portfolio of products, aligning to wider business objectives, market opportunities, and customer requirements.
- Drive portfolio performance, optimising utilisation (NBV and quantity), revenue, and return on capital.
- Identify underperformance and implement corrective actions to improve commercial outcomes and asset efficiency, working closely with Commercial and Asset teams.
- Providing insight led recommendations to senior stakeholders to influence strategic direction and investment decisions.
- Own the CAPEX across the portfolio, balancing investment, utilisation, and return on investment. Ensure effective control and optimisation of Capex, driving value and minimising waste.
- Managing forecasting and financial planning, ensuring alignment with budgetary targets and business priorities.
- Owning the end-to-end product lifecycle from introduction through to divestment.
- Leading the New Product Introduction, ensuring successful market entry, commercial viability, and operational readiness.
- Define and implement product rationalisation and exit strategies, ensuring timely divestment of underperforming or obsolete assets.
- Driving continuous portfolio optimisation based on performance data, market trends, and customer demand.
- Leading and influencing cross functional teams across Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Finance to deliver portfolio outcomes.
- Act as the senior escalation and decision-making point for portfolio-related challenges.
- Ensuring effective alignment across functions to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes for customers and the business
- Identifying and responding to market trends, customer needs, and competitor activity to shape portfolio direction.
- Ensuring product offering remains competitive, relevant, and commercially viable.
- Lead, and develop a high-performing team, driving accountability, engagement, and results.
- Develop team capability aligned to business needs, including succession planning and talent development.
- Provide clear direction, coaching, and performance management to ensure delivery against objectives.
What you’ll need:
- Working safely- Ensuring mandatory training practises are implemented in everyday tasks. Prioritising mental health and wellbeing
- Commercially aware -Commercially astute and performance focused to ensure people strategy is in line to support company growth. Understands the importance for managing costs and expense, applying the necessary controls.
- People Management and Development -People centric, with a coaching style that provides for team development and succession.
- Internal Customer Focus - responsive to the needs of the customer and aims to deliver customer satisfaction and proactively build relationships with current and new customers.
- Communication - Communicate clearly and concisely, impressing others and ensuring understanding of all relevant information in all circumstances and with all stakeholders. Encourage two-way communications, where ideas are listened to.
- Digital Transformation - Encourage the use of digital tools wherever possible – keeping up to speed with digital skills training as new systems are released.
- Teamwork - Actively contribute to the team and strive to improve teams’ effectiveness through personal commitment.
- Planning, Organising & Executing - Able to understand the priorities, plan and organise the work and manage own time to deliver within the expected timescales.
- Risk Management - aware on the impact of risk to the business and applies the necessary controls.
- Adaptability - Is responsive and open to changing circumstances.
- Self-Motivation and Development - confident in own ability and is motivated to deliver, using opportunities to further develop
- Ability to support your business unit/team to deliver our ESG Strategy – Decade to Deliver.
What we offer:
- Monthly cash car allowance or company car
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Health Cover
- Life assurance
- Pension Scheme
- 26 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Free onsite parking
- Canteen facilities
- 95% discount across the Speedy brand.
- My Staff Shop: discounts and offers for shopping etc. across many suppliers.
- Green Commute Initiative: Work scheme for cycling
- PAM– Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Offers free and confidential support and counselling to help you through matters such as wellbeing, divorce, legal, and financial management.
Speedy operates an industry leading Work Life Balance initiative, demonstrating our commitment to reducing core contracted hours, supporting colleague wellbeing, and identifying more balanced work patterns for our colleagues which is a huge step in realising our ambition of putting our People First. Talk to us about a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements to suit your needs including flexible start/finish times, shorter days, term time hours and job share opportunities.
Speedy offer a Career Line of Sight which enables a detailed understanding of the route to progression and growth within the Speedy Group.
Please be aware Speedy reserves the right to close our vacancies earlier than the listed date if we have received a high level of applications. We would recommend that if you wish to be considered that you complete the application as promptly as possible.
Please be aware that some roles within The Speedy Group UK&I may require a DBS, Credit or Security Clearance Check. The Speedy Group is an equal opportunity employer where we embrace diversity in all its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us.
Link below to our policies in line with our ESG Governance.
https://www.speedyservices.com/esg/governance
All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. All roles within The Speedy Group require proof of right to work in the UK by the start of employment.
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