Product Manager

KPMG is one of the most trusted and respected global professional services firms. Through depth of expertise, clarity of insight and strength of purpose we help our private business clients solve complex challenges, steer change, strengthen, transition and grow. We are looking for talented people who share our purpose of inspiring confidence and empowering change for our clients, our people and our communities.
- Our Private Enterprise team are focused on helping New Zealand’s private businesses succeed and our communities to grow. In doing so, we believe we will help our country also succeed and prosper. This is more than a goal - it’s our reason for being.
- Our clients are leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, and visionaries of subsidiaries of international companies, family-owned New Zealand businesses, for-purpose organizations, and small to medium enterprises, with ambitions to grow and create enduring impact.
- The experience we want our KPMG whānau to have is anchored in our purpose of ‘Fuelling New Zealand’s prosperity’ or ‘Tītokona tō tātou tōnuitanga, mō Aotearoa, mō tātou’. We are proud of our reputation for values-driven behaviour that guides our actions and defines what it means to work at and be part of KPMG.

**The Opportunity**:

- Work closely with businesses across New Zealand to address their challenges through new digital products.
- Help a leading professional services firm diversify its offering and enable greater impact across the New Zealand SME business ecosystem.
- The Product Manager will lead the product vision and plan product features to support small and medium business across Aotearoa.
- Collaborate with designers, analysts and engineers working on KPMG products.

**Day to day you will**:

- You will work with New Zealand SME customers and industries to deeply understand their challenges.
- Manage an agile product roadmap supporting a scrum-based delivery team.
- Plan and execute product-market-fit testing, capturing and synthesizing customer feedback
- Develop Go-to-Market strategies to effectively address our target market.
- Manage feature releases and client communications.
- Actively leverage your business networks to generate opportunities.
- Contribute towards the growth of our enterprise leadership team and other KPMG product experts.

**What you’ll bring to our team**:

- Experience in agile product management.
- Demonstrated expertise in conducting thorough market research and identifying customer needs.
- Track record of end-to-end product ownership, including roadmap development and release planning.
- Experience in product ownership and maximizing product value
- Deep understanding of industry trends and the ability to leverage them for strategic advantage.
- Understanding of SME business models and the ability to tailor product strategies accordingly.
- Familiarity with business performance metrics and practices
- An understanding of the Microsoft tech stack and tools such as Azure DevOps, and Power BI.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build trusted relationships with clients and colleagues.

**Life at KPMG**

We offer rewarding careers to talented individuals and a holistic range of benefits to support your life balance, whatever your circumstance. We want you to do Work That Matters, Thrive and Grow and know that you Belong here with us, at KPMG.

As a KPMG employee, we will offer you:

- — Access to the firm's annual incentive scheme
- — Opportunities for local and international secondments
- — Hybrid working across a mix of office, client and home hubs to recognise that people have individual circumstances and preferences when it comes to where and how they work
- — The ability to work from overseas and extend time connecting with friends and family outside New Zealand
- — Flexible leave options, including the ability to purchase additional annual leave
- — Gender-neutral support for all stages of the parental journey, including access to 18 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents

- A paid professional association membership of your choice
- — Digital accreditations through our partnership with Microsoft, LinkedIn Learning, with bespoke learning pathways for all employees
- — A wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, banking services, and lifestyle goods and services
- — The support, allyship and opportunity to join our many Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Affinity networks, including the Kiwa, Pride, Ethnicity, Accessibility and Wahine groups
- — The opportunity to participate in Green Team activities, as we work toward reducing the firm’s environmental footprint and become carbon zero by 2030
- — An invitation to join your local Social club and enjoy events aimed at bringing people together for social, sporting, cultural, family and fundraising activities
- — Paid time off for volunteering and involvement in citizenship activities
- — An array of health and wellness be