Head of Product - Workforce Management in Ruddington

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers.

MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what’s most important to you- work that matters.

With us, you’ll grow, find your flow , and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.

As Head of Product, you will be the product leader for your domain, owning its vision, strategy, and commercial performance. You will translate the Product Director’s broader strategy into a clear direction for your area, making the prioritisation decisions that balance immediate commercial delivery with long‑term platform ambition. This is a leadership role for someone who can connect customer needs, market insight, product thinking, and business outcomes - and who is confident making difficult choices about where the organisation should invest.

Your Team

You will lead and develop a team of Product Managers, ensuring they work at the right level and are accountable for outcomes rather than simply delivering features. You will provide effective line management through regular one-to-ones, clear objectives, performance management, and active development planning. You will also support the Lead Product Owner and Product Owner team in delivering to a high standard, surfacing and resolving blockers below Director level.

You will own the operating rhythm of the product team, including PI planning, weekly syncs, and retrospectives. You will ensure the team is working from strong evidence, running meaningful discovery, developing high-quality propositions, and maintaining a clear connection between customer problems, product decisions, and measurable results.

Your Impact

You will define and own the domain roadmap, setting outcome‑based goals and ensuring the team measures what matters. You will identify and validate the most valuable market and customer opportunities by bringing together customer insight, market data, and commercial context. You will represent your domain in executive and cross‑functional forums, communicating strategy, progress, trade‑offs, and investment needs with clarity and authority.

You will also manage the custom development capacity cap and oversee the handoff to Product Marketing at release, ensuring neither compromises roadmap delivery or launch quality. Ultimately, you will be accountable for how your product area performs in market: the value it creates for customers, the commercial outcomes it delivers, and the strength of the product organisation you build around it.

Benefits to support you personally and professionally

Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross‑departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
• Enhanced Family leave
• My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
• Employee‑led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake‑offs
• On‑site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
• Opt‑in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage

We value the well‑being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.

At MHR, we’re completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported.

Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you’re excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we’ll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.

If we receive an exceptionally high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than originally advertised.

Skills for the job

• Commerical Awareness
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Product Knowledge

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