Product Development Manager - Warehouse Technology
- Job ID
- Job ID 75719
- Team
- Team Tech
- Location
- Location Pontefract
- Job Schedule
- Job Schedule Full time
- Salary
- Salary £66,600 - £73,800
- Posting Date
- Posting Date 22/05/2026
- Apply Before
- Apply Before 31/05/2026
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Summary
The Role:
Join Next’s dynamic Warehouse & Distribution Technology Domain, a crucial part of one of the UK’s largest online retail platforms.
As a team of circa 160 professionals, we play a crucial role in helping to deliver and support a portfolio of software development projects and we are looking for a Product Development Manager to join our team.
This pivotal role takes full strategic ownership of core products, directly impacting our warehouse operations both here and abroad enabling cost savings, service enhancements, capacity increases and resiliency improvements.
What You'll Take On:
You will lead and have line management responsibility for a software development team, overseeing all aspects of project delivery in a highly collaborative and agile framework, providing ongoing communication to ensure progress is fully transparent, understood and aligned to our quality standards and IT governance.
The role demands strong leadership and technical acumen, aligned with proven project management capabilities and excellent communication.
Your core responsibilities and measures of success will include:
- Overseeing all stages of project delivery, managing risks, issues and decisions.
- Establishing and validating project scope aligned with strategic business drivers.
- Ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and aligned with priorities.
- Managing the product development lifecycle using Agile Delivery Methods.
- Leading, coaching, and developing a team of Developers to deliver the highest standards.
- Managing team performance, setting clear objectives, and fostering collaboration.
- Communicating project status clearly to all stakeholders.
- Partnering with cross-functional teams to integrate workflows.
- Ensuring full compliance with policies, governance, and NEXT standards.
- Actively managing all project risks and driving continuous improvement in processes.
What You'll Bring:
We're looking for a hands-on leader with a blend of strong project management and exceptional leadership skills, ready to drive efficiency and innovation on a global scale.
You will have:
- Proven experience managing complex projects and portfolios.
- Strong senior stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience in team leadership, coaching, and development.
- Background in a fast-paced warehousing, logistics, eCommerce, marketing, retail technology environment or similar..
- Proficiency with ALM tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
- Familiarity with Agile or hybrid project delivery models.
- The ability to plan and prioritise workload in an agile, demanding environment
- Excellent communication skills
Location
You’ll be doing all this from our Yorkshire Office on the same complex as 4 of our biggest warehouses so you can really see the impact and value of the projects we deliver and be close to our key stakeholders and business owners. You’ll be joining a fast-paced, encouraging, and supportive environment. Bring your energy. Play to your strengths. Make things bigger and better than before. Let’s Take It On.
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Benefits
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Profit-related bonus - based on company performance
- Management share options
- Company car or car allowance
- Private medical insurance
- Sharesave scheme - make savings from your net pay to buy NEXT shares at a discount
- Pension - fixed contribution rates from both an employer and employee perspective, but you're also able to make additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) if you wish to save more.
- Life assurance
- Group income protection
- Wagestream - helping you make the most out of your money
- Salary finance - offers access to affordable loans repaid through salary, simple savings and free financial education.
- 25% staff discount on most NEXT products - plus discount on other products
- Direct to work - NEXT orders delivered free to the office for collection
- VIP sale - early access to the NEXT sale
- Access to NEXT staff shops
- Octopus energy - like cycle-to-work, but for electric vehicles
- Free parking (excluding London locations)
- Travel2NEXT - bus services dependent on location
- On site dining facilities (excluding London locations)
- National and local discounts on goods and services - this includes things like discounted cinema tickets
- Wellhub - includes access to discounted gym membership
- Simply health - a healthcare subscription service
- Aviva Digicare Workplace+ healthcare service - 7 Free services including Digital GP appointments and an annual health check.
- Onsite GP - Leicester Head Office
- Onsite Physio - Leicester Head Office
- A range of dedicated 3rd party wellbeing partners
- Free eye testing - voucher to use at specific locations
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Team Overview
We are a global tech innovator and a software house inside a retailer. Our platforms power online journeys, store systems, and automated warehouses. Be part of a team that owns end-to-end delivery, shipping often, owning outcomes and keeping our customers moving.
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