{"id":3050500,"url":"https://alion.io/job/imp-software-product-manager-finance-and-purchasing","title":"Product Manager, Finance and Purchasing","company":{"id":3908962,"name":"IMP Software","domain":"impsoftware.co.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/impsoftware","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Welcome to the Jungle","truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Exeter, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":59000,"max_usd":117000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_cell","sample_n":10},"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Monday.com","optional":false},{"name":"Scrum","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":true},{"name":"Claude","optional":true},{"name":"Lovable","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T07:18:24Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Join IMP, a fast-growing company dedicated to helping Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) take control of their finances. As a Product Manager for Finance and Purchasing, you will own the vision and strategy for these two essential products, conduct customer discovery, prioritize the product roadmap, and collaborate cross-functionally. You will need a strong background in finance, accounting, or purchasing software, as well as experience in B2B SaaS product management. This is a remote position with a competitive benefits package.\nMissions\nDefinir y evolucionar la visión de los productos de Finanzas y Compras en respuesta a la información del cliente, las señales del mercado y los objetivos comerciales.\nSer responsable de la estrategia de descubrimiento del cliente para los productos, identificando áreas problemáticas, validando hipótesis y definiendo métricas de éxito.\nSer responsable de la hoja de ruta del producto, tomando decisiones de priorización que equilibren el impacto en el cliente, el valor comercial y la viabilidad técnica.\nProfil recherché\n\nJob Title:\n\nProduct Manager, Finance and Purchasing\n\nReporting to:\n\nHead of Product\n\nLocation:\n\nRemote\n\nAbout IMP\n\nAt IMP we help Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) take control of their finances. Our MAT-first software is built by people who know the sector inside out. Former trust professionals, finance experts and product specialists are all part of our team. More than half of all MATs in the UK already use IMP to plan with confidence, simplify complex processes and make smarter decisions.\nWe’re proud to be independent, founder-led and growing fast. Alongside our award-winning products, we’ve built a culture we’re equally proud of. We are ranked as one of the UK’s Top 25 Great Places to Work for mid-sized companies. Respect, collaboration and personal growth sit at the heart of how we work. You’ll find flexibility, support and opportunities to develop here, alongside regular team socials and funded CPD.\n\nRole Description\n\nIMP’s products are trusted by MATs nationwide to manage their finances more efficiently and effectively. Our portfolio covers three areas. Planner handles budgeting, forecasting and reporting. ICFP handles curriculum financial planning. Finance and Purchasing are the newest products, and they record and control a trust’s day-to-day spend. The portfolio is growing, each product serves a loyal and expanding customer base, and each evolves as our customers’ needs change and as IMP builds its platform ambition.\nWe are looking for a Product Manager to own IMP Finance and Purchasing, the two products that run a trust’s everyday finances. Purchasing helps trusts manage and control their spend. Finance is the transactional system behind it and handles day-to-day accounting, from payment runs to bank reconciliation.\nThis is a complex domain. Accounting rules, approval controls and audit requirements shape every decision, so this role needs someone who has already worked on a finance, accounting or purchasing product and understands how these systems work underneath. You won’t be learning the domain from scratch. You’ll bring that knowledge with you and apply it to the MAT sector.\nYour job is to deepen and extend these two products as trusts adopt them. That means sharpening what has already shipped, validating and delivering the capabilities that will matter most next, and working closely with engineering and design to deliver with rigour and pace. You’ll need genuine curiosity about customer problems and the strategic discipline to decide what not to build.\nAbove all, you will stay close to the user. The trust finance teams and budget holders who use these products every day are your compass. A discovery-led understanding of their needs shapes what you build.\nYou will join a product team that is moving from reactive delivery to discovery-led development. You’ll play a leading role in embedding that change in your squad and modelling it for the wider team.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n1. Product Strategy and Vision\n\nDefine and evolve the vision for the Finance and Purchasing products in response to customer insight, market signals and business goals.\n\nOwn your product roadmap. Balance improvements that deepen the value of what has shipped against new capabilities that extend the products’ position in MAT finance and purchasing.\n\nWork with the Head of Product and leadership to align your products’ direction with IMP’s broader platform strategy and commercial objectives.\n\nKeep a clear view of the competitive landscape in finance and purchasing software, and of how your products can continue to stand out in the MAT sector.\n\n2. Customer Discovery and Insight\n\nOwn discovery for your products: identify problem areas, validate hypotheses and define success metrics before any build commitment.\n\nRun regular customer interviews, observation sessions and contextual research with MAT finance teams, business managers and budget holders.\n\nBring together insight from customer interviews, support data, usage analytics and NPS, and turn it into clear problem statements and opportunity assessments.\n\nBuild and test prototypes and lightweight MVPs before committing to build, and refine solutions with design based on real user feedback.\n\nChampion the voice of the customer across the business so that product decisions rest on evidence rather than assumption.\n\n3. Roadmap Ownership and Prioritisation\n\nOwn and communicate your product roadmap. Make prioritisation decisions that balance customer impact, business value and technical feasibility.\n\nDefine and monitor the product metrics that show whether your products deliver the outcomes customers and the business need, distinguishing leading from lagging indicators.\n\nWork with engineering and design to turn roadmap priorities into well-scoped delivery cycles with clear acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes.\n\nWork with other PMs and POs across the IMP product team on cross-product dependencies and shared planning, including where Finance and Purchasing connect to Planner and the wider platform.\n\n4. Delivery Partnership\n\nWork closely with your engineering squad and designers through the whole delivery cycle, from refining the problem to reviewing shipped features against defined outcomes.\n\nMake sure your squad understands why they are building something, not just what and how, including the accounting and control requirements behind it.\n\nUse AI tooling to improve the quality and speed of specifications, synthesis and product analysis.\n\nMonitor product performance after launch and drive iterative improvements based on data and customer feedback.\n\n5. Cross-Functional Collaboration and Go-to-Market\n\nWork with Support, Implementation and Sales to bring customer feedback together and make sure product developments are well communicated and adopted.\n\nWork with Customer Success and Marketing to shape go-to-market activity for significant Finance and Purchasing releases.\n\nRepresent your products’ customer perspective in cross-functional conversations and keep the business aligned on priorities and trade-offs.\n\nSkills, Experience and Attributes\n\nEssential:\n\nProduct management or product ownership experience on a finance, accounting, purchasing, procurement or spend-management software product. This is a must-have.\n\nA strong working understanding of core finance and accounting processes, such as nominal and cost centre coding, the requisition-to-invoice cycle, payment runs, bank reconciliation, and approval and control workflows.\n\nA track record in B2B SaaS product management or product ownership, typically 4+ years, though we care more about demonstrated capability than an exact year count.\n\nExperience owning an established product and evolving it meaningfully in response to customer need and commercial opportunity.\n\nStrong customer discovery skills: you have run interviews, drawn out insights and shaped product direction from evidence rather than assumption.\n\nExperience defining and tracking product metrics to validate impact, including leading indicators that predict retention and adoption.\n\nStrong prioritisation judgement: you can make difficult trade-off decisions and defend them clearly.\n\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management, including the 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