Join Mintel and help shape the future of global consumer insights.
We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our growing Product leadership team — someone who can blend visionary thinking, market obsession, and product execution excellence to lead Mintel into its next era of innovation and growth.
This role is a unique opportunity to operate at the highest strategic level — guiding product direction, aligning across the business, and building cutting-edge solutions that shape entire industries.
Why This Role Matters
As Principal Product Manager focused on our One Mintel AI Platform Proposition & Roadmap, you’ll:
- Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives across the product portfolio.
- Drive lean, data-driven product development that delivers measurable ROI.
- Ensure strategic alignment between product vision and company-wide goals.
- Partner closely with senior global stakeholders and C-suite to turn product strategy into real-world impact.
- Help define how Mintel builds product – not just what we build.
This isn’t just about feature releases. It’s about redefining market categories, driving multi-million-pound growth, and ensuring Mintel stays indispensable to the world’s leading brands.
What You’ll Be Doing
Drive our Vision Forward:
- Bring to life Mintel’s multi-year product strategy, identifying transformational opportunities across our portfolio.
- Build market-defining roadmaps rooted in client insight, commercial reality, competitive intelligence, and long-term impact.
Drive Strategic Delivery:
- Lead high-priority, cross-team and cross-functional initiatives, guiding other product managers, design, data and engineering teams toward aligned outcomes.
- Orchestrate large-scale initiatives across commercial, marketing, data, futures and engineering teams, with trust and influence to drive complex delivery.
Direct Commercial Impact:
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Consulting leaders to design and execute go-to-market plans for major launches.
- Build compelling business cases and value propositions to drive adoption, retention, and revenue growth.
- Support commercial team as a trusted product team representation in winning high-value client proposals.
Influence at the Highest Level:
- Operate as a trusted advisor to C-suite and global leadership.
- Drive clarity, alignment, and excitement around product strategy across the organisation.
Be a Product Culture Shaper:
- Champion lean methodologies: including MVPs, rapid experimentation, fast validation, and continuous learning.
- Help reimagine how product is built at Mintel — AI-first thinking in discovery and validation to delivery and measurement.
- Lead the strategic use of AI/ML in product development to gain competitive advantage.
- Coach and mentor product managers to elevate the craft across the team.
What We’re Looking For
Essential:
- 10+ years in Product Management, including time at a Principal/Lead level.
- Proven experience leading strategic, cross-functional product initiatives spanning multiple teams and domains.
- Deep knowledge of lean product development and ability to implement it across teams.
- Strong commercial acumen with a track record of delivering significant revenue impact and supporting high-value client proposals.
- Executive-level influencing and stakeholder management experience — you know how to bring the business with you.
- Sharp communicator — you bring clarity and confidence to the overarching product vision and roadmap.
- Proficient in tools like MixPanel, Productboard, Jira, and data analytics platforms.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- Experience working with Data Science, AI, or Data Engineering teams.
- Background in strategy or management consulting.
- Nice to have: Exposure or experience in FMCG
What you'll get in return:
- A culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working with a company wide hybrid working week.
- Approach to personal development where we encourage individuals to grow and share what they’ve learned.
- Social events, both within the department and across the company
- Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy back additional holiday.
- A day off to celebrate your birthday
- Giving back is part of our culture with this in mind Mintel gives each employee 2 days per year to give to a worthwhile cause.
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Skills Required
- 10+ years in Product Management, including time at a Principal/Lead level
- Proven experience leading strategic, cross-functional product initiatives spanning multiple teams and domains
- Deep knowledge of lean product development and ability to implement it across teams
- Strong commercial acumen with a track record of delivering significant revenue impact and supporting high-value client proposals
- Executive-level influencing and stakeholder management experience
- Sharp communicator
- Proficient in tools like MixPanel, Productboard, Jira, and data analytics platforms
- Master's degree or MBA
- Experience working with Data Science, AI, or Data Engineering teams
- Background in strategy or management consulting
- Exposure or experience in FMCG
What We Do
Market Intelligence is what sets us apart and what defines us as a brand – literally in fact: when the company was founded in 1972 it took its name from an amalgamation of the two words. We have been defining and refining the Market Intelligence Mix ever since, to offer our clients a unique perspective on the consumer landscape ahead and a clear roadmap with which to navigate it. So what goes into the market intelligence mix? MARKET RESEARCH is not the only thing we do, but it is right at the core of our business. The vast range of primary research we carry out and commission is the bedrock of our market intelligence, creating data series we can assess incrementally over the long term to track trends and forecast the future. MARKET ANALYSIS is the second key element of the market intelligence mix. Our specialist team of market analysts scours the globe for trade, industry and government data, which our statisticians then integrate into meaningful sizing models and future value forecasts for thousands of sectors worldwide. PRODUCT INTELLIGENCE adds micro-level relevance to the macro context of our market analysis, bringing our clients real-world examples of the launches and goods that are driving the numbers. COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE is the fourth pillar of our work, keeping our clients abreast of their rivals’ strategies, communications and results, to give them the understanding they need to choose the right response to gain or maintain that crucial competitive edge. The magic happens when we pull them all together. Trend analysts, category specialists, systems developers, dedicated account teams and client servicing staff work together to provide our clients with understanding as well as knowledge. That’s our Market Intelligence. That’s how we help businesses grow. It’s why we’re the leaders in it.
