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Mark Merrywest

Lead Product Manager

€695/day
London, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Mark

A passionate, adaptable and personable Lead Project Manager with a strategic mindset, strong leadership skills and a ruthless focus on putting customer needs at the heart of delivering exceptional products.

Vastly experienced across all aspects of the product lifecycle from discovery and development to Agile delivery and marketing. Adept in building high-performing cross-functional teams, collaborating closely with all stakeholders to deliver real business value. Displays an innovative leadership approach that focuses on establishing and fostering key relationships, strategic thinking, and transparent communication.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
London (up to 10km), Norwich (up to 50km)

Experience

  • flocc
    Lead Product Manager
    September 2019 - April 2023 (3 years and 7 months)
    Norwich, UK
    Created and evolved the Product function at FLOCC working with clients across a wide range of industries and sizes from and startups and scale up to mulitnational corporations. Leading the cross-functional team of product managers, planners, designers, developers and marketers to deliver a high quality product consultancy service across Discovery, Agile delivery and Growth. Notable Project
    ● Led the conceptualising and development to launch of a new startup in the hospitality space
    ● Supported strategic business planning - leading to successful pitching for pre-seed funding
    ● Led the go-to-market and digital marketing strategy attracting over 150 early adopter expressions of interest.
    ● Established the use of Agile project management techniques and CI/CD processes from the ground up
  • flocc
    Senior Product Manager
    September 2016 - September 2019 (3 years)
    Norwich, CT, USA
    Responsible and accountable for product vision, design, planning usability and quality of releases; working as the internal client champion to the FLOCC team. Held strategy workshops to create, develop and continuously improve our clients' product roadmaps Researched customer needs and wants on behalf of our clients to discover and specify EPICs and User Stories to build the pipeline for the development team. Championed a Lean, Agile Product Management approach for all members of the FLOCC team.
  • flocc
    Product Marketing Manager
    September 2013 - September 2016 (3 years)
    Norwich, UK
    Worked alongside clients at the C-Suite level as their trusted product marketing partner to develop their go-to-market and growth strategies. Created and developed brand identities, values, and vision before effectively translating this into long term marketing and communication programmes. Collaborated closely with discovery, design, development and planning teams to ensure alignment to customers' needs and the overall marketing strategy.

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Education

  • Executive MBA, Norwich Business School, Business Administration, Management and Operations
    University of East Anglia
    2018
    Executive MBA, Norwich Business School, Business Administration, Management and Operations
  • Level 7 Diploma, Professional Consulting
    Chartered Management Institute
    2018
    Level 7 Diploma, Professional Consulting

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