Product Leadership
Strategic product leadership for ambitious organisations. I help you define a compelling vision, build robust roadmaps, and create a high-performing product function that delivers consistent customer value and business results. That covers strategy and roadmap, pricing and go-to-market, revenue growth, change and process optimisation, and the operating model and people that keep a product function working after I leave.
Core areas of product management
Each can be engaged on its own or combined into a broader product leadership engagement. AI, new product launches, service productisation and delivery each have their own page.
Product Strategy & Vision
Set a clear product direction that aligns leadership, guides teams, and connects customer needs to business outcomes.
- Compelling product vision and strategic narrative
- Strategic pillars and focus areas
- Outcome-based Now / Next / Later roadmap
- Prioritisation framework and decision criteria
Product Discovery & Research
Evidence-based discovery to validate opportunities, reduce investment risk, and ensure you build what customers genuinely need.
- Assumption mapping and testing plans
- Customer interviews and research
- Opportunity assessment and solution trees
- Connecting insight directly to roadmap decisions
Stakeholder Management
Navigate complex stakeholder environments with the right governance, communication, and influence models.
- Stakeholder mapping and influence analysis
- Decision rights and RACI frameworks
- Communication cadences and briefing rhythms
- Governance, escalation and conflict resolution
Product Analytics & Metrics
Define the right metrics and embed analytical practices that drive genuinely data-informed decisions.
- Coherent metrics framework and hierarchy
- North Star metric definition
- Instrumentation standards and tracking plans
- Dashboards and data governance
Product Operating Model & Transformation
Design and implement operating models that align structure, governance, and culture for high-performing product teams.
- Operating model assessment and design
- Organisational structure, roles and responsibilities
- Governance and funding models
- Change management and embedding new ways of working
Product Lifecycle & Portfolio Management
Manage products end-to-end across their lifecycle and keep a balanced portfolio that maximises return on investment.
- Lifecycle stages from introduction through growth and maturity to end-of-life
- Portfolio rationalisation and investment balancing
- End-of-life, sunsetting and migration planning
- Dependency and risk mapping across the portfolio
Pricing, Packaging & Commercial Models
Design pricing and packaging that captures value, aligns with how customers buy, and supports sustainable growth.
- Value-based pricing strategy and modelling
- Packaging, tiers and good-better-best constructs
- Commercial models (subscription, consumption, usage-based)
- Discount governance and deal desk principles
Product Ownership & Requirements
Hands-on product ownership that turns strategy into clear, buildable requirements and keeps delivery moving.
- PRDs, user stories and acceptance criteria
- Backlog management and refinement
- Sprint planning and prioritisation with engineering
- Definition of ready / done and workflow standards
Change Management & Process Optimisation
Most savings hide in processes nobody owns. I map how work actually flows, automate the manual steps and bring the people who run it through the change, so the new way sticks.
- Process mapping from first enquiry to live service and beyond
- Automating manual steps across CRM, supplier and billing systems
- Supplier, hardware and licensing rationalisation
- Adoption: training, ownership and governance so the change holds
Product Coaching & Capability Building
Build durable product capability in your teams through coaching, mentoring and structured enablement.
- 1:1 product manager coaching and mentoring
- Team enablement and playbooks
- Product career frameworks and role clarity
- Workshops and facilitated learning sessions
Go-to-Market Strategy
Get a product to market with a clear customer, a clear message and sales, marketing and partners all telling the same story.
- Ideal customer profile, positioning and messaging
- Channel and partner go-to-market, including joint plans with vendors
- Sales enablement, collateral and RFx support
- Launch plan with ownership and success measures
Revenue Growth & ARPU
Grow revenue from the customers you already have, and find the next revenue lines before the current ones flatten.
- ARPU and margin analysis across the portfolio
- Upsell, cross-sell and value-added service strategy
- New revenue lines and adjacent market assessment
- Measuring what each product actually earns
How I deliver results
A pragmatic approach that adapts to your context while keeping focus on tangible outcomes.
Diagnose
Understand your product challenges, stakeholder landscape, and current product maturity.
Strategise
Define clear product vision, strategy, and outcome-based roadmaps that align teams.
Enable
Build product team capabilities through coaching, frameworks, and hands-on collaboration.
Embed
Establish rhythms, reviews, and practices that maintain momentum after the engagement.
Where I have done this before
Real work behind this service, written up in full on the portfolio.
Core Platform
Platform vision, roadmap and operating model for the shared services beneath three enterprise SaaS products.
Read the case studyNew Product Introduction
Moved a regional broadband altnet from sales-led to product-led, and launched five products in eight months.
Read the case studyHybrid Multi-Cloud Go-to-Market
A joint go-to-market framework built with VMware and reused across two UK banks.
Read the case studyStart with discovery
Where is your product function, honestly?
Before a roadmap or a reorg, a discovery session reads your product maturity, your stakeholder landscape and the few things worth fixing first. It is how we avoid solving the wrong problem well.
A scoping call is free. A structured product discovery with a scored baseline and prioritised plan is a fixed-price piece of work you own.