PM - F&F Planning Apps in Welwyn Garden City

This role supports the expansion of the F&F technology team and backfills the current PM as they move into a newly created role. It focuses on the apps and back‑end systems that underpin F&F’s planning, buying, and product lifecycle processes. The PM will work across a highly interconnected ecosystem where changes in one area can impact multiple others. This requires someone who is comfortable navigating complexity, collaborating across product teams, and driving clarity in a tangled landscape.

What Makes This Role Distinct

• Highly interconnected systems: nothing exists in isolation; every change has downstream impact.
• Greater autonomy than the MyProduct Range role — fewer programme structures around it today.
• Deep domain complexity: planning, buying, branching, ordering, and product lifecycle flows.
• Ideal for a PM who thrives in ambiguity, can self‑start, and can shape direction independently.

Core Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy for F&F Planning Apps, spanning both apps and back‑end systems.
• Develop a clear understanding of today’s complex landscape and define the future‑state vision.
• Work closely with other product teams to manage dependencies and avoid system breakage.
• Drive alignment across teams where processes and systems are tightly intertwined.
• Lead discovery, prioritisation, and roadmap creation with a high degree of autonomy.
• Partner with engineering to ensure solutions are scalable, stable, and aligned to long‑term goals.

Experience & Skills Needed

• Strong PM experience in complex, multi‑system environments — ideally with back‑end exposure.
• Ability to understand and work with big data, complex data flows, and legacy systems.
• Comfortable operating with less programme structure and driving progress independently.
• Excellent collaboration skills — this role interacts with many product teams.
• Strong strategic thinking: able to map today’s reality and chart a path to the future.

Nice to Have

• Experience in clothing, fashion, or retail product lifecycle — helpful but not essential.
• Understanding of end‑to‑end retail flows: product development -> branching -> buying -> ordering.
• Experience in environments where apps and back‑end systems are tightly coupled.