Senior Product Manager - Purchasing

About Cazoo

Cazoo was founded in 2018 to transform the way people buy used cars. We believe everyone deserves to feel total assurance when buying a car. Our vision is to deliver the UK’s best car buying experience by putting the customer first and making it no different from buying any other product online today. We are backed by top investors and directed by an experienced management team including Founder and CEO, Alex Chesterman, OBE.

About the Job

We’re looking for a senior product manager that is searching for their new challenge in a critical team at Cazoo. The data product teams at Cazoo power the tooling that helps us be the best at what we do, be the best online dealer in the UK and Europe.

You’ll play an integral part of the Purchasing team within the data space at Cazoo. Looking after the technology that helps us buy the right cars, at the right prices for the right market. 

There is massive scope for growth as well as genuine influence on business that has undergone one of the most explosive growth stories in the UK.

You will own one or more products and be responsible for leading their full life cycle, owning the vision, supporting strategy and communicating a roadmap. You’ll take your product from ideation and discovery, through design, delivery, preparation for launch, measuring of success, and iterations.

You will be central to building and growing your product area and outcomes by leading a team through discovery to implementation and beyond.

At Cazoo we believe in autonomous empowered Product Teams. Working closely with engineering, you are ultimately responsible for making sure we’re building the right things for users of your products. Your partners in engineering are responsible for making sure we build these things in the right way, but both of you care deeply about both things - it’s one team!

About Cazoo Purchasing

Cazoo is the UK’s fastest unicorn - our aim is to transform the way people purchase used cars and you will play a critical role in supporting that mission. 

The Purchasing team is part of the Trading team which lives within the data space at Cazoo. 

The Data mission is to provide the best insight so we can buy the right cars at the right price while empowering the use of data within the whole of the Cazoo organisation.

We are looking for a Product Manager who is…

• Able to switch contexts as needed and keep perspective on the big picture at all times without being overwhelmed
• Able to drive complex prioritisation discussions and regularly communicate in tradeoffs and risks with your stakeholders
• Obsessed with tracking the KPIs of your product and use data to guide and inform decision making
• Proven to have a track record of working out the right thing to build and delivering results
• Leaning towards bias to action and you make sure that your discovery process involves creating something the business can learn from as you go
• Comfortable with their understanding of machine learning models, how they generally work and how best to implement them with the help of Data scientists within your product

You will...

• Work with your team and stakeholders to identify problems to solve or opportunities for growth
• Rapidly build knowledge of your domain and assess opportunities
• Determine what the right thing to build is for your customers – supported by data and evidence – as quickly and cheaply as possible
• Be inspired by new technology, competitors/like-minded businesses, future thinking, and more to suggest opportunities to improve Cazoo
• Take responsibility for forming hypotheses and measures, and ensuring there is a backlog of epics with agreed priority
• Proactively engage with stakeholders to define the strategy and direction for your Products.
• Define KPIs to measure the success of your product
• Manage relationships with any 3rd parties related to your product

• Prioritise and set the team direction, creating a sense of urgency and momentum as well as own and maintain your road map and the communication of the value your team is building
• Champion Build Measure Learn, creating a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the product management discipline, especially in discovery and delivery methodologies
• Focus on Outcomes instead of Outputs and ensure we’re enabling positive outcomes for the business

Nice to have...

• Experience with Data Products as we are trying to incorporate Machine Learning and AI into the purchasing team

Useful info

Our selection process will typically involve a chat on the phone and a few hours of interviews where you’ll have a chance to meet the team. Our interview process is built around understanding your experience and focus as a Product Manager, not making you sweat or catching you out.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, colour, religion, national origin, disability status or marital status.