[Hiring] Business Product Manager @FairPlay Sports Media

Role Description

Own the direction, prioritisation, and outcomes for a partner-facing web proposition, operating within a performance-based commercial model. You are responsible for bringing together partner needs, user experience, commercial drivers, and technical constraints into a coherent product shape — and for continuously evolving that shape through delivery, learning, and iteration. The focus is on delivering a high-quality partner experience while ensuring solutions are repeatable and sustainable, strengthening CMS and platform capabilities through real-world use rather than one-off or fragile builds.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end product ownership
• Own the partner web product end-to-end, from discovery through delivery and optimisation
• Define and maintain a clear product direction and prioritised roadmap aligned to partner outcomes
• Balance partner requirements, user impact, business value, delivery feasibility, and long-term sustainability
• Shaping CMS and platform usage
• Shape how CMS and platform capabilities are used to support partner needs, including content models, workflows, roles and permissions, and publishing governance
• Ensure clear separation between partner-specific configuration and reusable core capability
• Work closely with Capability Owners and Engineering teams to identify where partner delivery exposes gaps, constraints, or improvement opportunities in existing capabilities
• Delivery enablement & product shaping
• Work closely with engineering teams, delivery Product Owners, and design to shape problems, define outcomes, and prioritise work
• Stay actively involved throughout delivery, refining scope and making trade-offs as learning and constraints emerge
• Provide clear product intent and direction without owning every ticket or backlog item
• Stakeholder & partner leadership
• Act as a credible senior interface with partner stakeholders on priorities, progress, risks, and trade-offs
• Align internal teams across capability, engineering, and commercial stakeholders around shared outcomes
• Performance & optimisation
• Define and track success metrics for the partner web proposition
• Use data and insight to guide prioritisation, iteration, and performance improvements over time
• Decision-making authority
• Owns product-level prioritisation and sequencing, and provides a strong, informed steer on trade-offs affecting partner outcomes, delivery pace, and long-term sustainability
• Makes clear recommendations to the Business Line Owner on initiatives that materially affect performance, scope, or delivery approach
• Acts as the primary escalation point for cross-team conflicts relating to scope, prioritisation, or product direction, ensuring decisions are surfaced with clear options and implications

Success Measures

• A clear, coherent partner web product delivering measurable performance outcomes
• High-quality partner experiences delivered without reliance on bespoke or fragile solutions
• CMS and platform capabilities strengthened through partner delivery, not weakened
• Clear differentiation maintained between partner-specific configuration and reusable capability
• Strong cross-functional alignment and predictable progress against agreed priorities

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience owning outcomes in a B2B product-led role
• Proven ability to work hands-on with delivery teams to shape problems, priorities, and trade-offs
• Experience with CMS-driven products, platform-based web propositions, or configurable / white-label style offerings
• Strong product judgement and curiosity: comfortable exploring user, partner, and market needs where the solution is not already defined
• Able to translate insight into practical product decisions rather than theoretical strategy
• Confident operating with external partners and senior internal stakeholders
• Commercially minded, with experience defining and using KPIs to guide decisions